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Chapter 39 The Face Problem
[Austria] Rilke
There are billions of people in the world, and there must be more faces than people, because everyone has several different faces.

I learn to make sense of everything I see, and I continue to do this from the moment I open my eyes in the morning.

Although sometimes my heart is still not calm, but I always study tirelessly.

How many different faces are there in the world?
This is a question I still don't want to know.There are billions of people in the world, and there must be more faces than people, because everyone has several different faces.

However, there are people in the world who wear the same face at all times, and of course the face can be damaged, dirty, and even cracked from the wrinkles, just like the duffel bag you take when you travel, it always happens If there is not enough, this kind of person belongs to the thrifty and simple person.

However, there are also people who don't agree with this practice, and change their faces again and again horribly, but when he is less than 40 years old or already 40 years old, the face on their head has become their last one Face, there is no alternative face anymore.

Of course, this is also a tragedy.

But these people are not used to paying attention to their face, even the last face was damaged in less than 1 week, pitted and paper thin everywhere.In the end, the skin without makeup becomes a face that cannot be called a face.

With such a face, they can't go anywhere, they can only pace back and forth at home every day.

Heart mark notes
Someone joked that the Chinese have at least seven faces.Some of these faces are false, some are flattering, some are scary, and so on.Many of the faces we see every day are "packaged".They are happy, sad, and changeable, which is the epitome of our life.To survive in such a world, we will experience complicated interpersonal relationships.It follows that one must learn to deal with the changing psychology hidden behind all kinds of faces.

A life wearing a mask is a sad life.Unable to show our true selves, we are doomed to only experience the repressed life process.The real face is buried under various "corrosive" masks. If you don't know how to take it off at any time, it will rot and deform over time. This kind of person's heart and personality may be "disfigured" sooner or later .

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