The first time I watched "Westward Journey" directed by Stephen Chow, I was in the fifth grade of elementary school, probably around 1999. I was still young at the time, and I thought it was unacceptable when I watched it for the first time. How could the great hero Monkey King, Monkey King, in my mind, be like that? How could he have all kinds of emotions and desires, and how could he have such a naughty past? At the end of the special movie, Supreme Treasure and Zixia pointed at Sun Wukong in the distance on the city wall and said: "Look at that man, it's so strange, he looks like a dog." Later, when I got older and graduated from college, I felt so sad when I realized that sentence again. It really spoke to my heart. As we grow up slowly, we worry about daily necessities of life, such as daily necessities and daily necessities. Our lives are very tiring. What is the difference between us and "a dog"? A life of heavy weight every day. Life is so hard, what should we do with the poetry and distance we pursue?
In the first 20 years from birth to graduation from college, each of us lived a carefree life and did not have to work hard to survive. However, our parents raised us in order to raise us. But he had to live frugally and frugally. What I remember most is that my parents were both working at the Lotus MSG Factory in our county as ordinary workers. My mother was in the fermentation department at the time. She had to switch back and forth between black and white shifts every month. She was reluctant to go out to eat in restaurants every day. , they all use their own lunch boxes to put some noodles and some green vegetables leaves to make a meal. Every time I go home, my mother falls asleep without changing her clothes. She is so sleepy that I can smell the smell of my mother's clothes next to me. It is an unpleasant smell, but I don't feel it. What is there, without mother's hard work, how can we live? At that time, I was deeply grateful to my mother for her efforts. My monthly salary was not very high, just a few hundred yuan. Yes, when we become parents, we live like a "dog", working hard to earn money to support our family and moving forward with a heavy burden. Where is there any "poetry and distance" to consider?
I remember when I was in the second grade of junior high school, probably around 2002, one afternoon my father was chatting with me in the yard, and as he was talking, he took out a thick wad of money from his pocket. But what disappointed me was that it was all in one piece. At this time, my father said to me: "This is the amount of money our family will spend this month. You can count how much money you have." I took the thick piece of money my father gave me and counted it. There were 99 pieces in one piece, which was 99 yuan. Dad said: "This money is all our family's expenses for this month. The family has no money." I was still young at the time and did not understand the helplessness my parents felt. Looking back now, it is really difficult for my father to support his family with his meager monthly income.
When I was in primary school, I often traveled back and forth between my grandma’s house in the village and my house in the suburbs. The happiest thing in my memory is that one year my father was very happy when he got paid and took me to the county town street on his bicycle. Buy delicious food to improve your life. When I arrived at the vegetable market, my dad bought a few kilograms of pork and celery and put them in the basket of the cart. I felt so happy when I saw them. I knew I could eat dumplings at noon. My mouth watered. On the way home, I came to an intersection and there was a mobile stall selling leather shoes. All the leather shoes were placed in the car. The price was probably not too expensive. My father bought a pair. I will always remember that moment. My father tried it after buying it. I felt the shoes still fit my feet, so I wore them home. Many years later, my father has been wearing those leather shoes since I was in elementary school, junior high school, high school, and college. When I think about it now, I feel that it is really not easy for my parents. In life, I have to live frugally to support my family. At that time, our understanding of life was that it was difficult and not easy, and "poetry and distance" had not yet begun to take shape.
I think many people are in the same situation. After graduating from college, they get a salary that is barely enough to live on. They have to run around every day for firewood, rice, oil and salt. They have to take the bus to work, and they do things based on others’ faces in the company, for fear of losing their jobs. My job has no source of income. For most of us, life is largely about trying to live with life. "Poetry and distance" are really too far away for us.
Just like the classic line in Stephen Chow's movie "Westward Journey": "Look at that person, he looks so strange, like a dog." It is true. When we reach the age of talking about marriage, we will live Like a "dog", he works hard for a living and loses too much of himself.
Life is not only about mediocrity, but also poetry and distance.
This sentence is very appropriate for Gao Xiaosong to say, because he is a famous talent, musician, and has a prominent family background, and he has no worries about food and clothing. However, he does not bother to live alone, and they pay more attention to poetry and distant places. For us working-class people, the daily fuel, rice, oil, salt, water and electricity bills, and mortgage payments make us breathless. How can we have leisure time to think about "poetry and distant places".
I think as an ordinary person, if you don’t have enough financial strength, you can just keep thinking about poetry and distance in your heart. No matter how full your ideals are, the reality is very skinny. After paying the rent, water and electricity bills with the monthly salary, when there is not much money left, we have to make do with life and say goodbye to the "poetry and distance".
When we reach the age when we talk about marriage and live like a "dog", we live a life of modesty, do we still need poetry and distant places? In fact, everyone has different experiences and experiences with this question, and the answers they get are also different. For thousands of ordinary people like me, our current abilities can only be reconciled with life, and poetry and distance are far away from us. They are still far away, so we have to keep them in our hearts, keep working hard, and always prepare for them.
I have a like-minded friend who is three years older than me. I met him late and were very close friends. I think his experience is very representative and can be shared with everyone as an inspiration. typical. My brother studied in Beijing for his undergraduate degree. After graduating from university, he found a job that barely made a living. He rented a house of less than 10 square meters in the North Fourth Ring Road of Beijing. He had to go out at around six o'clock every morning. In winter, It was terribly cold, with temperatures reaching over ten degrees below zero. He said: "I am an ideal person. Although the current life is very difficult, I am not willing to settle with life. I will continue to pursue the "poetry and distance" in my heart." During the few years I worked, I experienced a lot of setbacks and hardships. I was abandoned by my girlfriend at the time who took away all my savings, and I was deceived by my relatives. At that time, I really felt that life was worse than death, but I always had poems and poems in my heart. Far away, this belief has brought me to this point. Later, I chose to start a business and experienced several failures. I had no income for a year, but I always felt that I would get better. Poetry and the distance were still waving to me. I felt that there was still hope in life." Later I Things turned out for this brother. He and his friends invested in oil projects in Xinjiang and began to make profits, and applied for a technology patent. Now the cooperation with Kazakhstan companies is getting larger and larger. It is estimated that he will consider retiring before he is 35 and start pursuing pursuits. His own "Poetry and Distance". A few days ago, he went to Siberia alone with a backpack and posted his photo album "Dan Bao Travels in the World" on WeChat Moments. Life is like this, as long as you don't abandon it, don't give up. Only then can we have a chance to realize our ideals.
When we reach the age where we are like "dogs" when talking about marriage, we are still living. Do we still want "Poetry and Distance"? This brother has already given the answer. Each of us should always have hope in our hearts. Hope is such a beautiful thing. Although we are not able to realize it for a while, we should keep it in our hearts and keep it in mind at all times. Even if we are consumed by the daily necessities of life, Even though you are bound by a mortgage, you must also pursue your own "poetry and distance" in your heart.