"Integrated Word": "Blowing flowers and chewing hearts, showing off vanity, shaping mountains and self-doubt."

In China's literary genre, there is an idiom called Fan Shuimo Mountain, which means imitating others. It is true that imitation has existed in human society since ancient times. Imitating some people who are better than themselves is also helpful to improve themselves. However, everything should pay attention to a boundary. If you just imitate others, instead of focusing on improving yourself, you will often not have a good ending.

Imitate Maitreya

There is a story in Zhuangzi Qiushui: A man from Yan State went to Zhao State to play, and when he saw the graceful walking posture of Handan people, he followed them to learn this walking posture. Finally, he not only failed to learn the walking methods of Handan people, but even forgot how to walk on weekdays. In desperation, he had to climb back. This is the origin of the idiom "Handan toddler", and all other idioms are valid.

In our country, there is a young man who looks like Maitreya Buddha and was taken home by a rich woman to "raise". Can he change his life in this way? Obviously, this is impossible. In Buddhist culture, the image of Maitreya always gives us a hearty laugh, and a big belly is exposed, which makes people feel very warm and comfortable. The young man has been very fat since he was a child. If he wears a little makeup, it is really similar to Maitreya in Buddhism.

Obviously, this is a means of making a living. Many folks make money by imitating singers' voices and stars' makeup. Isn't this guy imitating Maitreya in Buddhism a way to make money? But it turns out that only relying on imitation, rather than forming its own characteristics, will one day make people visually tired and unnoticed. Just like those who imitate singers, even if they imitate again, they will eventually be eliminated by the market because they do not have their own personal characteristics.

Choose to leave

At the beginning, this young man became popular on the Internet because he imitated Maitreya's stunt. As soon as many local shops open their doors, they will choose this young man to cut the ribbon and let him dress up as Maitreya, just to get off to a good start. This young man is becoming more and more famous, and a rich local woman even took him home, not because she fell in love with him, but because she hoped to make more money with him.

It turns out that this rich woman is the boss of a brokerage company, and she intends to use this young man to go out for a commercial performance. At first, under the company's packaging, the young man was able to receive countless Shang Yan and traveled all over the country almost every day. But with the passage of time, the number of performances that the young man can receive is getting less and less, and the price is gradually decreasing. After all, after his explosion, many other people began to imitate other characters and began to seize the market together. The young man lost his position.

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What happened to him? As Shang Yan became less and less, the young man finally decided to leave the industry and return to the ranks of ordinary people. Facing the young man's decision, the company behind him is not too harsh. After all, it is difficult to make money by working with him again. Might as well break up. After becoming an ordinary person, the young man is doing ordinary work while losing weight. Without Maitreya's coat, he lived a happier and more fulfilling life.

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Zhuangzi Autumn Water