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A “hopping uncle” heals a group of people online

By Zhao Tong (People's Daily Online)    17:09, November 14, 2019

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Recently, a migrant worker, with a yellow safety helmet, hopped all the way back home after working in Chongqing become popular on Chinese video-sharing app Douyin, also known as Tik Tok, according to the Workers' Daily.

The “hopping uncle”, a 57-year-old carpenter working on the construction site, did not get paid on that day, nor have particular happy things to celebrate about. He just asked several workers to have a simple meal at a restaurant not far away after work, and then he hopped along singing and dancing after the meal.

“Actually it is my habit. I just enjoy hopping to and from work,” he said. When asked about "what's the difference between hopping and walking?" He answered, “I just feel happy!”

However, he did not know that his habitual action has been "curing" many netizens of their stress.

“That's who I was, and hopefully that's who I'll be”, “I haven't been happy like him for a long time”, “Maybe this is how life should be,” said many people online.

“We, human beings, living in the world should be happy no matter how bitter and exhausted,” he explained. This simple sentence is really hard for many people to follow.

According to the white paper on the mental health of China's urban residents released in 2018, 73.6 percent of people are in a state of sub-health, and 16.1 percent have different degrees of psychological problems, compared with the small number who are mentally healthy (just around 10.3 percent).

When psychological problems become a social topic, more and more people begin to face up to their emotions, including conducting personal emotional management, mentality construction, and acceptance of the guidance as well as intervention of psychologists.

There are more books and courses on psychology, as well as chicken soup to help people to free up their emotional health. At the worst, you can try to give yourself a shopping trip, a good meal, a movie, or a trip.

Life is combined with both bitter as well as sweet things. The way you treat life is the way life presents you. Unhappiness is not such as terrible thing, but the real terrible thing is that often so many people cannot seem to find a good starting point to eventually achieve acceptance and reconciliation.

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