Writing is joy
Author: Yan Shulin
In April 2020, by chance, "The House of Chic Originals" pushed a prose poem I originally used to make the "K Recitation" bottom version, "The Old Camphor Tree Next to the Former Residence", which was praised by my family, colleagues and friends. My circle of activities and communication seemed to be much larger and hotter, and slowly I began to try to learn to write.
Two years have passed, and I have felt a lot, and the main thing is that writing has gained happiness.
The first is the harvest of the joy of releasing the accumulation.
After retirement, especially after entering the age of 70, not only because the circle of activities has shrunk, relatives and friends have slowly left, and social life has gradually drifted away from themselves, resulting in loneliness and loneliness, but also those unforgettable impressions and memories in the past of life, those helpless bittersweet and bittersweet, those inexplicable joys and sorrows, those unspeakable guilt, always feel deposited in the heart, difficult to resolve, so depression and unhappiness often spread the heart.
For example: nostalgia for hometown. The mountains of the hometown, the water of the hometown, the people of the hometown, everything in the childhood, the memories are vividly remembered, and sometimes even the spirit is ethereal. I expressed my accumulated emotions in my heart by writing essays such as "The Tree in My Heart, That Bird's Nest" and poems such as "The River in My Hometown", "The Key", "Stepping on the Land of My Hometown", "Special Bookmarks", "Old Wine in My Hometown", and "Visiting".
I wrote in the poem "The Visit":
The sound of spinning wheels and the sound of the whip / Has been wrapping around my heartstrings / The homecoming song / After several drafts, finally got my wish / There, I found life / The beginning of the first ring / Found the little foot / The first mark that came out / The old house is gone / Under the homestead / The first cry that came out / Faintly heard / Childhood playmate / The descendants of the old camphor tree / Telling the vicissitudes of the years / Along with my little story / Also woven into / The white cloud above the head
These humble poems release my nostalgia and attachment to my hometown, and make this emotion sustenance and belonging.
Another example: On the issue of children's education, I always feel remorse and self-blame in my later years. In order to alleviate the psychological pressure, I wrote "Elderly Parents, Please Say "Forgive" to Yourself." There is a passage in the text: "My three sons and daughters have long been fathers and mothers. But as a father, I am still reflecting and torturing myself from time to time, and I have used to use verbal abuse or verbal harm when educating them. What these left behind in their minds was a shadow, and what left on me was guilt and apology." Through my conversations with myself, my conversations with my children, and my stories to others, this article catharsis and releases the psychological burden.
For example, although my parents have passed away for decades, I still haven't forgotten them. When my parents were born, I did not fulfill my filial piety very well, and the guilt and guilt caused by the lack of opportunity to make up for it have always been accumulated in my heart. So I wrote the essays "I Hope, I Hope My Mother Will Come Back", "The Deepest Memory Left by My Father", and the poems "Happiness", "Tribute in Valentine's Day", "Mother's Words", "Answers", "Father's Back", "To Father", "Chongyang", "Moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival", "Qingming Sacrifice Sweep", "Thoughts, Simplicity into Rain", "Qingming A Flash of Rain", etc., using words to release my deep nostalgia and self-remorse for my parents.
The second is the harvest of sharing the good joy
Sharing the beauty of one's life with others is a matter of being happy with oneself and others. Some people say that "solo music is not as good as crowd music", think about it too. I often share the beauty of my life with others in words, and enjoy happiness with others.
Sun Tzu has carefully created a "four-room tour" for us many times, and has taken care of us "two old and one young" all the way, making us happy. I wrote "Landscapes That Will Enchant Me Forever." I sighed: "For six days, I was touched by the beautiful scenery on the road, and at the same time, I was even more intoxicated by another scenery in front of me, 'filial piety and love for the young'." After this article was shared, the literary friends were very envious and thanked me for sharing happiness with them. A literary friend left a message saying: "Teacher Yan's beautiful text is like the cool breeze of midsummer, comfortable and comfortable." Writing a passage about my grandson especially makes me and my family very happy:
"The great grandson 'Little Drum Stick' (nickname) added a lot of fun to our trip. The little ass is more than two years old, lively and active, and a pair of watery talking eyes reveal the unique innocence of children. Every time you go to an attraction, as long as you take out your mobile phone, he will take the initiative to pose and wait for you to take pictures. When you're ready to pat him, he'll smile and stick out his thumbs up or hold up his small hands with his index and middle fingers up, learning to say 'Yay' to the adults. When he was done, he would jubilantly circle around the spot "...
Our sons and daughters-in-law, daughters-in-law, sons-in-law, grandchildren, and granddaughters-in-law are very filial to us, especially the two daughters-in-law. Let us feel the happiness, warmth and sweetness of family life. Touched, I wrote "I Want to Borrow another Five Hundred Years from Heaven" to share the beauty with my family and friends. This article was also published by yueyang evening news with the title of "Three Daughters in the Family", allowing more people to share our happiness and happiness.
The two trips to East Africa were a highlight of my happy life, a poem that belonged to me and my friends. I wrote the "Notes on East Africa" series, using words to keep it permanent and share it with my peers and others.
Print media publishing my work (photo)
Again, the joy of self-confidence is gained.
In my opinion, the same as the writing enthusiasts, the elderly are naturally inferior to the young. In practice, however, I also found that the life experience of the elderly makes him not necessarily worse than the young people in the choice of content and the insight of the subject matter. For example, the essay I wrote, "The Purple Mountain, a memory that will always remain in my heart", is selected from a small incident in my daily life in the early 1970s. A 30 yuan "Purple Mountain" brand trial watch, from the acquisition to the loss of a month left a deep memory, it reflects the social changes and changes in people's living standards. Such life experiences and feelings are not available to young people. This article was later favored by the "Selected Essays" of the Annual Conference of Chinese Essays, and was published in the 3rd issue of the journal in 2022 under the title of "Purple Mountain Watch".
In the past two years, I have published 25 essays in literary platforms such as "Selected Essays", "Chinese Countryside", "Yueyang Evening News", "Shandong Poetry", "Yangtze River Poetry" and other paper periodicals, "Xiaoxiang Original Home", "China Poetry Network", "Writers of the People", "Northern Poetry", "Poet Geography Weekly", "Chinese Rural Culture", "Distant Poetry Culture", "Chinese and Foreign Poets" and other literary platforms, with nearly 100 poems, totaling about 80,000 words; "The Most Beautiful Piece of Rape Flower in My Heart" won the first prize for essay essays in the fourth quarter of "China Countryside" magazine in 2020 The poem "South Lake" with the same title of "Chinese and Foreign Poets" was selected as a large-scale hardcover book in the "South Lake - Selected Poems Celebrating the Centenary of the Founding of the Party". These small achievements and progress have enhanced my self-confidence and made me feel the joy of old age.
In the past two years, I have written ordinary things with a normal heart, written about life, written about reality, and used words to nourish my body, heart, leisure, and entertainment. I am very impressed and agree with mr. Wang Meng's statement in his essay "The Joy of Writing": "Writing is the best way to maintain health." The mind is useful, the mind is concentrated, undisturbed, God has a perch, and is not deceived. Feelings can be relaxed, imaginations can be soared, depressions can be vented, emptiness can be enriched, regrets can be compensated."
(Note: The "K recitation" at the beginning of the article is a small program similar to the K song base version made by the K song App for yourself and others to read)
About the Author:
Yan Shulin, a retired teacher in Junshan District, Yueyang, Hunan Province, has published essays and poems in paper journals such as "Selected Essays", "Chinese Countryside", "Yueyang Evening News", "Shandong Poetry", "Yangtze River Poetry" and literary platforms such as "People's Writers", "Xiaoxiang Original Home", "China Poetry Network", "Northern Poetry", "Poet Geography Weekly" and other literary platforms; in 2020, he won the first prize for essay essays in the fourth quarter of "China Countryside" magazine; and the poem "South Lake" with the same title "Chinese and Foreign Poets" was selected as a large-scale hardcover book in the large collection of "South Lake - Poetry Selection celebrating the Centenary of the Founding of the Party".
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