The main line of characters in this book is particularly simple. The main characters are three women, one is slow na (slow), the other is fast zong (fast) and the other is Wen bingbing (middle).
Three girlfriends happen to live in a quadrangle in Beijing.
Their life and work pace are completely different. For example, Slow Na is a housewife who is good at cooking, baking and handcrafting. She has a husband who suffers from depression and a four-year-old son who runs a host family. She often makes mistakes.
The fast general principle is an entrepreneur. He once worked in a stable institution, and later resigned to start a business and entered the real estate industry. In the process of starting a business, she keenly discovered business opportunities and was interested in everything that made money. Once, I entered the center of the world, and later became lonely, so I had leisure to return my energy to the yard.
Ice and ice are between fast and slow. She likes writing and coffee, and is good at interviewing and making videos. She is different from Slow Na and Fast Zong. She is always vacillating and struggling with her choices. She is not satisfied with her career choice and living conditions, and often cries inexplicably when she works smoothly, because she feels that this is not the life she wants.
Three people and three States are actually similar to many women in our real life. Maybe in life, we are the manager who is slow or fast, or somewhere in between, and we can't find our own ice.
Manna stands for slowness and persistence. The general rule of quickness is quickness and chasing. Together they represent reality. Ice and ice represent emotions, ideals and entanglements.
That's it. Three people with different personality backgrounds opened a warm toy-themed coffee shop together, and gave a very literary name, called Yard atmosp-here (atmosphere).
In the process of starting a business, they had disputes, lost, happy and failed. When they are separated, they look for new choices in the new environment and work hard. They are still thinking about the warmth and inspiration brought by the small courtyard and the difference brought to others. After their own groping and tossing, they gradually became clearer and firmer about their life direction.
Later, because of her insistence on her own principles, Slow Na was unexpectedly taken by a boss and was willing to invest in her, giving them a chance to reopen their business and meet their brand-new old friends in the coffee shop.
The general rule of fast put down a lot of messy entrepreneurial projects and chose to establish a women's community. She said that infected by her two good friends, she began to benefit his spirit, and in the process of altruism, she gained a sense of accomplishment far beyond other professions.
Bingbing used to feel that she didn't work hard enough and knew so many big brothers, but she still couldn't live this life. Until she was interviewing a film director, the other person's answer made her find her original heart. And she finally positioned herself as a creator, so she had the book she was reading.
Ganlu envies the hard work and efforts of Bingbing and Kuaizong, and Bingbing and Kuaizong envy Ganlu's life.
In fact, life is the meaning of struggle and hard work.
In real life, we may not be a strict manna, nor a pure fast manager. More often, we may be wavering soldiers.
When you are busy with your life, you worry that you will be made mediocre by daily chores; Looking at other people's successful careers, sighing that they are unremarkable.
While I am busy with my career, I envy others' stable, dull and petty-bourgeois life.
So this book describes three women with different choices, their stories, their choices, their struggles, their helplessness and their breakthroughs.
Even though I know that life is cruel, I still firmly love life.
If you are also confused, it is better to find a leisure time to read this book, so that we can appreciate the protagonist and ourselves in the book with appreciation.
Their story continues. In the next decade, they say they want to change their lifestyle, but how are we going to live in the next decade?
Maybe we can find a quiet afternoon, choose an elegant coffee shop, prepare an exquisite notebook, take out a favorite pen and seriously think about how I should spend the next decade. Then write it down.
Whenever we feel that we don't know what to do, the book of answers (a book mentioned in the book) will give you the answer. It will tell you in seven words: do it according to your plan.
If you want to know whether you can succeed in the future, the book of answers will also share the secrets that everyone knows. It will say: give time to prove.
Looking forward to our own story in the next decade, may we wake up bravely and let's start together!