Drinking with a guy who runs a guesthouse, in his 40s, divorced and single.
I asked him: Have you thought about finding someone of the same age? He exhaled a smoke ring and said something extremely insightful: There is no romance between middle-aged people. Because everyone has become a sober ugly person.
What does it mean to be a sober ugly person?
1. Ugly: Because life has beaten them down, their appearance has deteriorated, and they are weary.
2. Sober: Because they have seen through human nature, lost their filters, and are filled with calculations.
Everyone is impatient and no one has the time to pretend. Good-looking middle-aged people are clearly priced: men seek short-term pleasure, women seek long-term financial support. Whoever talks about feelings is a fool. And sober ugly people, with neither charm nor wealth, look down on each other, and can only remain single.
Aliang wants to say: Don't be afraid of becoming a sober ugly person, be afraid of becoming a sober poor person. In the world of middle-aged people, money is the only filter. When you have money, your clarity is called wisdom, and your ugliness is called having a story. The clarity without money is the true hell.
Make money, this is the only cosmetic surgery for middle-aged people.
