Post office for two
Recently, I watched a documentary "Post Office for Two". Xiao Zhang seems puzzled why he insists on postal work in his hometown. Father's encouragement and persistence is the biggest reason why Xiao Zhang insists-stability. After all, postal work is a state-owned unit. Although the salary is low, there are medical insurance and old-age care. After Lao Zhang fell ill, he received condolences from the leaders and numerous medals, all of which were glorious. Xiao Zhang convinced himself in this way. When getting together with classmates, Xiao Zhang admired those students who went out to work hard to start a business, but he also emphasized the stability of his work. In fact, I feel that Xiao Zhang himself doesn't understand why.
The post office in the countryside is a hard job, and it often takes a long journey to catch up with the good weather. When the weather is bad, you have to carry your bike in the snow. Xiao Zhang's greatest wish is to spend tens of thousands of dollars to buy a minivan. Obviously, the monthly salary of Xiao Zhang 1700 is out of reach for his dream of buying a car. Xiao Zhang has a family to support, a son who goes to primary school. Although Xiao Zhang's wife has been helping in the post office, she can't get paid if she is not a regular employee of the post office. All kinds of difficulties can be imagined, not to mention buying a car, and the 6900 tricycle is not easy to sell. Xiao Zhang's lover didn't complain. She said that she was not a material person, and hoped that Xiao Zhang would have no second thoughts on her.
It is said that there are two post offices, namely Xiao Zhang and Xiao Zhang's wife. The child is at the parents' home in the county. In order to save costs, the post office moved to Xiaozhangjia. At present, the income generated by the State Post Bureau is not much. Xiao Zhang is a family here. In addition to letters, many people come to send black fungus, and the sales of black fungus can be about 1 10,000 a year. Xiao Zhang, who helps others get rich every day, has no heart at all. He sends letters to families and helps the village with trivial matters, because Xiao Zhang is the most trusted person among them.
Inheritance, sense of accomplishment, people and quiet countryside make up Xiao Zhang's work and life. These have nothing to do with money, and money can't buy them. In an empty mountain village, some young people resist the temptation and guard the tranquility and simplicity.
I don't know whether Xiao Changcan will stick to his life like his father, and I don't know whether the hardships in the city will make more people choose to go to the countryside in the future. No one is sure which one can stick to the end, what we should stick to and what to wait for.
This is one of the most impressive documentaries I have ever seen and one of my favorite documentaries. It can't give me the answer to life at all, but this documentary just keeps me thinking about this question and what should I stick to.