Within the peach blossom ravine lies the Peach Blossom Hermitage, and within the Peach Blossom Hermitage is the Peach Blossom Immortal.
The Peach Blossom Immortal among the flowers plucks peaches and exchanges them for wine money.
When sober, I only sit in front of the blossoms; when drunk, I still come back to sleep under them.
Half-awake, half-drunk, day after day; flowers fall and flowers bloom, year after year.
I only hope to die old among flowers and wine, never to bow before carriages and horses.
If you compare wealth and poverty, one is on the ground and one is in the sky.
Others laugh that I am too crazy; I laugh that they cannot see through things.
I don’t see the hero’s graves of Wuling; with no flowers and no wine, there is only hoeing fields.
If you treat card play as a hobby, it’s like a guy playing Dota and a girl who loves makeup (buying bags). Outsiders can’t easily understand the fun, while insiders play with immense joy. A girl can never understand why a game would make a man go so blood-hot in it, build fierce brotherhood, and feel the warmth of seeing four TP lights pop at once when he gets GANKed. A guy can’t understand how a girl can stockpile so many bottles and jars of every size at home, keep writing endlessly long wish lists, and face the unavoidable question after makeup: Am I pretty?
If you see card play as a lifestyle, then it’s like adventurers who run around all the time versus conservatives who stay comfortable with the status quo. The former keeps walking on the road of changing the future, while the latter lowers risk to the minimum and gets a simpler, calmer life in return. Everyone has the right to choose their own life, but adventurers can cast aside rough weather and big waves and return to a peaceful life. Yet conservatives may spend their whole lives never daring to step out, while quietly mocking adventurers for making life so complicated.
Some things only qualify to be put down if you have picked them up first.
In my view, playing with credit cards is a skill.
We sacrifice time and effort, and bring our family free air tickets and free hotel stays.
We treat every purchase as an investment. We seek not only the best products and services, but also the highest returns.
Behind 申申申, there is our summary of predecessors’ data, our thinking, and our assessment of investment, return, and risk.
We make rulemakers change rules for us, and while we complain, we move on to the next treasure worth uncovering.
In the end, we can say for sure that this grape is sweet, but not everyone has the ability, energy, and time to get such a sweet fruit.
Card play—we are all on the way.