Chapter 35: Reverie on the Journey

Changed a job and started to travel around the country again, I was actually a little reluctant, after all, I am a very homely person, I like to stay in one place and live a regular and slow life, or it can also be summed up in a lazy word.

However, life is always full of dislocations of one kind or another, so that romantic poets who like to travel far away have to be trapped in office buildings and live a boring life from 9 to 5; so that the man who was tired of wandering had to continue to wander around; Let people who are longing for love continue to be single in the midst of their hard search; Let the person who is already desperate for love, and his mouth is full of curses and resentment, end up in a flash marriage in a hurry...... The seemingly chaotic dislocation is actually the best solution given by life.

I still took a favorite book with me and a simple bag on my back to embark on the trip I had to set off.

Settle your belongings, sit in your seat, and wait for the train to depart smoothly.

Actually, I'm not so diligent and inquisitive, I love books but I am not obsessed. Reading on the train is a good choice, because you have to be stuck on the train for so long, reading can kill the boring time, and it can create the illusion that the onlookers are very hard and learned.

opened the book, but always couldn't concentrate, some of the people nearby chatted loudly, some people talked on the phone to communicate about work, and because of the interference of the voices of the chatting staff, he had to raise his voice and shout out, and some people watched TV movies with no high or low sound, and some knocked melon seeds to make intermittent disturbing sounds...... I closed the book and began to think, why do I feel that I am noble and vulgar in a flash?

Thoughts began to spread to more distant places, remember that there seems to be some reports or articles that once said one thing, saying that on the train most of the Chinese are chatting nonsense, or reading fragmented articles in the mobile phone, or gossip entertainment, especially loud people seem to have little literacy, compared to foreign trains, people tend to read books and newspapers quietly, especially pay attention to the order of public places, talk also control their own volume, and then from reading books and newspapers, saying that the number of books per capita in various countries is ranked, and China ranks low, developed countries rank high...... Now that I think about it, there are a lot of unreasonable and conjecture in the article, as well as a strong atmosphere of admiration for foreign countries.

The most powerful evidence is that when complaining about the per capita income, the neighbor's monthly salary is 100,000, and his monthly salary is 1,000...... This kind of statistics can only give people a rough idea, and it does not actually explain anything.

Speaking of the amount of reading, if I read 1 book per capita in my country, multiplied by the base of 1.5 billion, the total amount is 1.5 billion; The average person in a country reads 50 books, multiplied by the base of 20 million, and the total amount is 1 billion.

But what is the use of this data? It seems that all of China is illiterate, and their literacy is very poor.

But everyone knows a truth, you must be humble, there are people outside the mountains outside the mountains and there are people outside the people is correct, the masters are all in the people, how can you use your shallow insight to say that there is no hidden dragon and crouching tiger in China?

I like what Guo Degang said in cross talk, since ancient times, there is no first, and there is no second. We should be more cautious when we go up to comment on the cultural literacy of a nation and a country, and when we put the data to compare the size, we are falling behind.

These are things that data simply can't tell. Reading and enlightenment, in addition to paying attention to diligence and the necessary amount of reading, life experience accidents, there is also an immeasurable factor of talent and understanding.

The epiphany in the flash of thought of others may surpass the painstaking reading and enlightenment of other ignorant beings for half a lifetime. The train continued to move forward, and after a while, the topic of the chatter was temporarily gone, so the people who were chatting closed their eyes and recuperated, and the people who were calling to talk about work had already hung up the phone and began to read the e-books or web pages on their mobile phones...... The whole carriage became quiet, and I opened the book in my hand again, and my heart was calm and peaceful, and I read carefully to absorb the knowledge in the book.