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In 2015, a cross resignation letter from Gu Shaoqiang, a female teacher in Henan, "The world is so big, I want to see it", became a phenomenal hot event that year, touching the heartstrings of countless people who are trapped in daily trivialities and yearn for distance and freedom.

Ten years have passed in a flash, and now we are focusing on Gu Shaoqiang again, and everyone is surprised to realize that this "dream chaser" who bravely quit his stable job and went to a distant place has not continued to measure the vastness of the world as everyone expected in this ten years.

On the contrary, she has quietly returned to Zhengzhou with her daughter, rejoined the workplace, and once again integrated into the regular and orderly daily rhythm of 9 to 5.

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It was no accident that Gu Shaoqiang made the decision to resign back then.

During her tenure as a counselor at that middle school, although she had a stable job, it was difficult for her to fill her yearning for the wider world.

When she was given a class assignment to "write a letter to herself in two years", she couldn't help but reflect on her own life: Do you want to spend a life behind this three-foot podium?

The thought sparked a longing in her heart.

於是，她毅然決然地遞交了辭職信，懷揣著僅有的 1.2 萬存款，開啟了未知的旅程。

Gu Shaoqiang, who embarked on the journey, was like a bird breaking free from the cage, enjoying the wind of freedom.

She went all the way to the west, enjoying the sunrise on the shore of Erhai Lake, feeling the warmth of the first rays of sunlight on her body;

At the foot of Cangshan Mountain, appreciate the majesty of nature;

Stroll through the ancient town of Lijiang and indulge in the poetry of bluestone pavements and gurgling water.

Of course, the journey was not only beautiful, the rainstorm had soaked through her backpack, and the camera was scrapped in water;

When her budget was overrun, she could only satisfy her hunger with instant noodles for three days in a row.

However, these difficulties did not stop her from moving forward, but made her cherish the joy of freedom and exploration even more.

However, the twist of fate is always unexpected.

At the foot of Qingcheng Mountain, Gu Shaoqiang met love and fell in love at first sight with Yufu, a young man from the Northeast.

The two hit it off, spent all their savings to build an old house, and transformed it into a "Far Return Inn".

"Far Homecoming" means that travelers from afar are as warm as returning home, and it also symbolizes the convergence of fate.

In the early days of the inn's opening, it was full of romance and poetry, backpackers played guitars under the stars, writers created in attic retreat, and the video of Gu Shaoqiang holding a guitar and singing "Chengdu" exceeded one million views.

But behind the romance is the trivial daily life of running an inn, and the toilet bowl and bed sheets that cannot be washed have become the norm of life.

In 2017 years, the birth of her daughter made life more realistic, and it became her daily routine to coax the child to settle accounts at three o'clock in the morning.

For the sake of their daughter's education, they moved from the ancient town to Chengdu, and later returned to Zhengzhou to settle in 2021 because their mother did not adapt to the Chengdu environment.

Today's Gu Shaoqiang, life seems to have returned to the original point.

她重新回歸心理諮詢行業，通過直播的方式説明迷茫的孩子，每天淩晨 4 點半起床準備直播，一播就是 5 個小時，直至嗓子沙啞。

Yu Fu, the partner who used to be on the trip, is now separated from her, and she still has no car or house.

In the face of doubts and sighs from the outside world, some people think that she bowed to reality and failed to realize her dream of traveling around the world, but was overwhelmed by the burden of life, trapped in the quagmire of mortgages, childcare and midlife crisis.

But Gu Shaoqiang was very calm, she said that she had seen the world and now wanted to take a good look at the people around her.

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Looking back on Gu Shaoqiang's past ten years, her experience has enriched her life experience and broadened her horizons, she is no longer the self trapped in the system ten years ago and full of longing, but has become more mature and calm in the grinding of life.

Her story is not a tragedy in which ideals are defeated by reality, but shows the diversity and complexity of life.

On the road of life, there is no absolute right or wrong, and every choice is an embrace of different life experiences.

Gu Shaoqiang bravely took the step of resigning to see the world, and returned to his family and the familiar field of work at the right time, isn't this a kind of intelligence?

Her experience tells us that true freedom is not to escape from reality, but to find a balance between ideals and reality, to love and embrace life in different ways at different stages of life.