All living beings in hell

Chapter 135 - Pope Francis
The lotus lantern at the door was lit up, and the No. 90 customer was ushered in the office.

An elderly white man walked into the office slowly. The old man was wearing a tall hat and a golden yellow silk jacket. Around his neck was a long string of necklaces made of colorful treasures. The bottom of the necklace was At the end hung a silver cross.He wears two rings on his right hand and three on his left, each ring is set with a huge gemstone.The old man looked to be in his eighties, with a radiant complexion and strong steps. His face could not be called benevolent, but he was not vicious either.

"May God bless you, my dear friend."

"Hello, please sit down. What should I call you?"

After sitting down, the old man straightened his robe a little. He seemed not very satisfied with the small wooden chair.

"Pope Francis, do you deny me?"

"This should be our first meeting."

Francis touched the ring on his hand and nodded: "That's right."

"May I ask why you are looking for me today?"

"I'm not dead yet, my body is meditating in the world, and my spiritual consciousness went to hell to check, and I happened to see your office is open. Your office is very strange, and it is incompatible with everything else in hell. I find it interesting , I just want to visit which god lives in the big tree of hell.”

"I am not a god, I am an ordinary hell official, and I am fortunate to be assigned to such a good workplace."

"Your words sound very young, like a child."

"Your words sound trendy too, do you check Twitter a lot?"

The Pope smiled: "Hahaha, hell officials are also very interesting."

"From your point of view, how is the situation in the world recently? Tell me about it."

"Your Excellency seems to have just left the world not long ago, and has not been assimilated by hell."

"Have you ever seen officials assimilated by hell? What do they look like?"

"It looks more like a devil in appearance, with red eyes and goat horns. You look like an ordinary child from the East, far from the devil in hell."

"You should be talking about the devil in the Western Hell, but the Eastern Hell is still very different."

"Overall, you're the most human-looking hell official I've ever seen."

"Thank you for the compliment."

"Besides, I have that strong atmosphere of the Z era on my body, which makes me, an old man, a little confused about how to communicate with young people like you."

"When you usually work, don't you see many young people?"

"Not much. Young people nowadays are generally impatient, and they have no faith in the Lord. They say that if the Lord is useful, the global temperature will not warm, and racial discrimination will not exist. Now, there will be no poverty and hunger in the world. They say that prayer cannot bring about change, only the continuous efforts of human beings can really bring about change.

If the global temperature rises, find ways to implement environmental protection into life and reduce carbon emissions from factories.Support trams, abandon petrol cars.You don't even need to go to school, just participating in an environmentalist march seems to show that you understand the core of the proposition.well!Young people of today! "

"What do you think about this?"

"Maybe I'm old, and I don't understand what young people in the new era are thinking. But there is one thing that can't be wrong from the perspective of human history-no matter how good a generation is, if it is too proud, it will be judged by its own pride and Ignorance completely destroys."

"Tell me about this in detail, why was it destroyed? How?"

"How beautiful was the end of the century in which Oscar Wilde existed. He was a unparalleled genius, but he was imprisoned because of his arrogance. No matter where he was, he could still write beautiful words that made girls kiss his tombstone wildly, But his own demise is the epitome of the end of that era of genius literature."

"But Wilde wouldn't be Wilde if he wasn't so haughty, wouldn't he? His lover said something similar. If you're not Wilde aloof, it's no longer interesting."

"Son, as an old man who has lived for nearly a hundred years, I have seen many kinds of lives. Once a genius like Wilde appears, he will shine for an era, be sought after, criticized, and flattered until he falls from the altar. I was spurned by my closest lover. Such a genius is like the epiphyllum at midnight. They know that they can only bloom for one night, so they put all their vitality in this night, and want the whole world to witness this momentary bloom .

But ah boy.Only after people live long enough can they realize that not only epiphyllum is beautiful in this world.Roses are beautiful, sunflowers are beautiful, lilies of the valley and daisies are beautiful.For an elderly person like me, sometimes seeing pines and cypresses growing majestically in winter feels beautiful. "

"But what do you say have anything to do with arrogance and ignorance?"

"Ignorant people don't care about the epiphyllum, but how many people are watching the moment when the epiphyllum blooms, how far the fragrance of the epiphyllum has spread, whether this epiphyllum has surpassed the blooming time of the previous epiphyllum, and when will the next epiphyllum bloom?" open...wait.

Proud people disdain the fact that they are short-lived epiphyllums. Even if they are extremely smart and understand that their blooming will eventually be used by others, their arrogance does not allow them to realize this reality.They bloom on their own, attracting the attention of people all over the world by burning their own lives.But how long can this self-burning way last?After the flower is defeated, what is the fate of Epiphyllum? "

"What does this have to do with the youth of Generation Z?"

"Their lives haven't really started yet, but they can't wait to bloom."

"Does that seem to you a sign of extreme arrogance and ignorance?"

"In my opinion, this will only exacerbate the confusion of information transmission and reception. This era itself is already very chaotic. Even as the Pope, I have to admit that no religion can lead all mankind out of chaos again in this era.

Before the Internet, people came to church to worship devoutly, the exchange of information was slow, and people were also patient.In today's era, information exchange is getting faster and faster, and there is no correct backbone to guide people's positive thinking.

Children are immersed in online emoticons and entertainment information, and have less and less time to think.I think this is a new generation that is spoiled, that this generation of humans is just the beginning of the next cycle of nightmares. "

"I have a different view on this matter."

"Your Excellency, please tell me your opinion. This is also the main purpose of my visit to hell this time, and I also want to hear what you officials have to say."

"From the macro perspective of human history, although history has rules to follow, you can't find exactly the same historical replication events. Wilde was such a short-lived epiphyllum at the end of his century, and finally passed away alone after his defeat. The end of this century Children who are born may be busy in order to be an epiphyllum, but because of the existence of the Internet, this is an era when anyone can be famous, and the attraction of being an epiphyllum may not be so great, right?
Now the Internet has only been active in the world for more than 20 years, and people are still in the stage of exploring and adapting to this technology.This stage is also a re-cognition and understanding of the matter of reputation.As you said, what happens after the epiphyllum blooms and fails?
It is true that the flowers are lost, but the stems and leaves can continue to live, or they can live well, but they just don’t bloom.The end of flowering does not mean the death of a plant, but the end of a period of state.The flowering period is as long as the four seasons crabapple, and it will also enter the dormant period in the deep winter.Of course, not everyone is Epiphyllum, and not everyone is Begonia.First of all, you need to understand what kind of plant you are, what kind of temperament you have, and what kind of care you need. This alone requires a lot of effort. "

"Young man, you are proud too."

"That's probably why I died so early."

"However, if you know that you are arrogant, and you can take good care of this arrogance, it is also a very powerful thing."

"It's a very humble thing to take care of pride itself."

"I was also very proud when I was young. I suffered a lot, but later restrained a lot. I have a lot of humility in speaking and dealing with people. This kind of humility has brought me unexpected results. People are more willing to communicate with me. And respect me more."

"Arrogance doesn't disappear. In the process of being humble, arrogance is transformed into something else."

"Converted to what?"

"The understanding of self and humanity, the true understanding must come from humility, open the heart, voluntarily go down into the dust, listen patiently, see patiently, and feel everything patiently."

"That statement of yours sounds very modest."

"Pope, the humility in these words is precisely because of my arrogance."

Francis smiled: "My child, I really hope you can live longer in the world before you can work as an errand in hell. Although it is great to be an errand in hell at a young age, if you live longer, you will see more differences People, only when you live to a certain age can you witness the development and changes of the times and understand what has happened, what is happening, and what will happen in this world.”

"If there is an afterlife, I will cherish the time in this world."

"I believe you will, and may God bless you my child."

Neither Francis nor I spoke again, and we looked at each other in silence for a while.There is a kind of appeasement and a sincere blessing in this look at each other.Not just a blessing from God, but a blessing from two people separated by seven or eight generations.Regardless of age, we all silently wish each other and all the next steps in the world at the time of our existence.

"God bless you, I'm going back."

"Thank you, good bye."

"Goodbye, child."

At last, an invisible tear stood in the corner of the pope's eye.He stood up and drew a small cross on his chest, nodded slightly to me, and then the spirit slowly faded away in the office.

(End of this chapter)