I still remember when I was a child, I didn't have any reading materials. I have read a book called Grimm's Fairy Tales many times, and I especially like Thumbelina's story. After a dangerous wandering journey, she finally found her little friend and lived a happy life. Of course, this is just a fairy tale, and the ending will always be that the princess and the prince live happily together. In real life, the emotional fluctuation caused by the plight of chicken feathers can only be solved by reading, especially when they feel particularly lonely.
My loneliness as a student was the lack of playmates of my own age. I often read famous works at home and abroad, such as How Steel was Tempered, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and A Dream of Red Mansions. Although I can't understand the life in them, being immersed in them is like having a world. Everything outside has nothing to do with me. I feel the joys and sorrows of the characters in the book, make friends with the people in the book and talk to them.
With the passage of time, after adulthood, loneliness still follows, and loneliness is also mixed with anxiety. At this time, it is particularly important to make a good cup of tea and taste a good book. Fortunately, with the development of the times, there are more and more ways to understand good books. In addition to the classics you have read repeatedly, you can also find out whether this is the reading you need through the official account of WeChat, the recommendation of Amazon kindle and the introduction of Weibo scholars. And you can freely choose whether to read the paper version or the electronic version, which will make people feel happy in the process of choosing books.
I used to think that loneliness was the only child's patent. As I grow older, I gradually realize that everyone has unspeakable loneliness in his heart. The loneliness of parents is the pressure brought by the rapid development of the times. When I was a teenager, books were a luxury for my father. In order to go to junior high school, he borrowed a textbook from his teacher's house and spent 10 days reciting the whole textbook. He also recited his favorite extracurricular reading materials. When a man reaches middle age, he has a lot of resources, but he can no longer read according to his own preferences. Although his mother takes care of his daily life, he can only bear the pressure brought by the changing environment alone and try to support his family of three with his hands.
Two days ago, my father asked me to help him buy a copy of Mr. Laughter by Chen Danqing. He said he was not good at using Taobao. Looking at his father's gray sideburns, he suddenly felt that his father was old and talkative. He often talks about my childhood. Because my grandparents are not around, lack of materials, isolated from the world, don't know how to take care of my children, don't give me a bath for a week, and don't know how many clothes to wear, which makes me very uncomfortable and worries about me every day.
Even in this case, my father never stopped reading. The bookcase on one wall of my house is full of books he has read, most of which are related to work and have a wide reading range. I asked him, do you remember the contents of the book you read? He said that he couldn't remember it all, but it was because of reading that he mastered the ability to survive in great changes and took care of a family with all his strength, which was the greatest gain of his life.
For me, an older single woman, freedom and loneliness appear alternately, filling my life. As the lyrics say, it's not that simple to find someone to chat with. At this time, the book became the closest chatting friend. Now that I have rich reading resources, I can always find travelers like me in books, and I can follow their footsteps to see the world, see the different lifestyles and ideas among hundreds of millions of people, and soothe my lonely soul.
The power transmitted by reading is probably only the person who reads, which is the most authentic experience. As for reading and loneliness, a sentence from Island Bookstore can best represent people's feelings: "We study because of loneliness; We study, and then we are not alone. No one is an island. "
Time flies. In the long river of years, the way we read, the way we get books, and the concept of seeing things have all undergone earth-shaking changes, but the only constant is the rich experience brought by reading.