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Author | I am the King Ear
Source | Mr. Wang Ear
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The holidays are over.
This May Day is not calm.
The epidemic is still continuing, and within five days, there were 2,904 new confirmed cases nationwide.
Asymptomatic patients, nearly 30,000 new people.
Shanghai has still not lifted the lockdown, and Beijing has suspended all restaurant dine-in.
In some places where the epidemic is serious, some units and universities have even cancelled holidays.
A large number of people can only look out at the spring at home, at school, and through the window.
In more places, although people are not grounded, under the tightening travel policy, the cost of off-site travel is difficult to bear.
Many travel agencies have basically no income during the May Day period.
People can walk in the park and camp on the outskirts of the city, which is very content.
There is a topic on Weibo, and it is also constantly brushed with hot searches:
#好怀念没有疫情的2019 #
Yes, that year, I didn't have to wear a mask, scan a double code, or bring a nucleic acid report everywhere.
On May Day that year, more than 30 million people spent time in movie theaters, and "Reunion 4" soon broke the 3 billion box office.
In mid-April of that year, the train tickets for the May Day tour were already sold out, and 12306 even collapsed at one point.
That year, in fact, was very ordinary, very ordinary.
We just work, live, socialize, travel, and take a big breath of air as usual.
It's just that at that time, we didn't think that after 3 years, we would miss the dull fireworks of that year in the time that has quietly changed, and the crowds are surging.
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In the circle of friends in 2019, it seems that there are always people traveling around.
I have seen people surfing in the bay of Sanya, sizzling shrimp in Changsha, seeing lavender from Ili in Xinjiang, and entering the fairy tale world in the snow country of northeast China.
There are also sandy beaches in Bali, snow-capped mountains in Switzerland, and even the Aurora Borealis in Iceland.
That year, the concept of an internet celebrity city arose.
In China alone, there are 6 billion people.
The crowds of Hengdian tourists
The number of people going abroad also reached a peak in that year.
155 million passengers flocked to Dubai, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Europe...
In the first half of 2019 alone, Chinese spent $127.5 billion on travel abroad.
Around the world, we also bought 1/3 of the world's luxury goods and spent 27.7 million yuan.
Behind this, it is because that year, our pockets really bulged.
In 2019, the domestic per capita GDP exceeded 10,000 US dollars.
That year, 25.77 million people bought cars and 369 million bought new mobile phones.
In addition to buying everywhere and playing everywhere, we also began to pay attention to eating.
In the first month of 2019, an article titled "Monthly Salary of 10,000 but Can't Afford to Eat Cherry" swept the screen.
Originally, it was a topic of lamentation, but countless people began to chase "cherry freedom".
Everyone must not only eat, but also eat imported;
Not only people in big cities are buying, but consumers in second- and third-tier cities and even small counties are soaring.
By the end of the year, we had eaten 180,000 tons of imported cherries and countless domestic cherries, accounting for 1/3 of the world.
The most famous Chilean cherry, sales have directly increased by more than 32 times, feeding 500,000 Chileans who make a living from it.
In that year, we could have the impulse to go on a walk and buy whenever we wanted.
You don't have to worry about whether the virus will be imported when buying imported goods.
It is not necessary to seal medium materials, or medium seals in materials.
Office workers don't have to worry about whether their jobs are stable enough in the anxiety of work stoppages.
Self-employed people who open stores will not be sad because of the long-term closure of the store and no business.
We will not be alarmed to find that income and life can suffer from so much uncertainty.
The ease of that year made me miss it immensely.
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In 2019, a film practitioner issued an open letter:
"This year, Chinese films have been reported frequently, box office records have repeatedly reached new highs, and every excited heart has been warmed again and again.
It's the best of times, the best of us. ”
The cinema that year was really lively.
During the Spring Festival, a "Wandering Earth" turned out to be a novel.
We were pleasantly surprised to find that science fiction movies can be so "Chinese", so imaginative and imposing.
That year, Uncle Da had not left.
In the summer, "Nezha Magic Boy Descending" was released.
The sentence "My life is up to me" breaks the prejudice that "the box office limit of domestic animation films will not exceed 3 billion".
The director of "The Wandering Earth" also sent a Weibo blessing: "Xiao Nezha, it's time for you." ”
Outstanding young filmmakers are showing their talents and competing for the current.
That year, there were also "My Motherland and Me", "Captain China", and "The Earth is Long and Long".
There are "Flying Life", "Young You", "Sweeping Drugs 2".
The country produced 1,037 movies, and more than 1.7 billion people entered the cinema that year, with a box office of 64.2 billion yuan.
Watching the prosperity of the film market, countless theaters have added a total of nearly 10,000 screens, and the total number of screens in the country has reached nearly 70,000.
At that time, who would have thought that the industry would usher in a long winter.
Movie theaters are crowded, and tv sets are also emerging in an endless stream.
That year, at least 200 million people used "Su Daqiang wants to drink hand-ground coffee" memes.
That year, the first part of "Qing Yu Nian" had just ended.
The man who was looking forward to the start of filming the second part had not yet left the following winter.
That year, there were more than 2,000 concerts.
There are Jay Chou, Lin Junjie, Mayday, There is Rocket Girl 101, and there is the "Chen Qing Ling" national style stage.
That year, not only strawberries and midi, "China's New Rap" and "Summer of the Band" lit a young fire, music festivals of all sizes blossomed everywhere, and countless bands were lively.
That year, we didn't have to sit in the theater, we didn't have to wear masks, and watching movies was just a simple matter of buying a ticket.
Don't watch the expected performances being cancelled and postponed again and again.
You don't have to look across the screen to try to find solace in online concerts.
That year's freedom made me miss it immensely.
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The happiness of 2019 seems to be particularly simple.
On television, we watched the military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
The mission of "Dongfeng Express" will no longer need to fly twice.
That is the peace of mind of Guotai Min'an.
In the news, the Chang'e-4 probe landed on the far side of the moon, and the first close-up image of the dark side of the moon was transmitted.
The wild hope of the expedition is one of our themes in 2019.
That's the jubilation of the space powers.
In that year, Yuan Lao, who was still alive, was awarded the Order of the Republic.
That year, he published an article that began with the following sentence:
"I've been working with rice for most of my life, and my biggest concern is that rice is related to food."
That year, Bryant hadn't yet boarded the helicopter that was hit by heavy fog.
He went to Shenzhen, where thousands of fans in the number 24 shirt cheered outside the stadium.
That year, we stayed up late and gave Jay Chou a list with black circles.
Countless people who have entered and are about to enter middle age seem to have found the spirit of youth.
I want to announce to the world: My idol is the top of the universe.
That year, Li Ziqi did not stop changing.
From an ordinary video blogger, he became one of the influential people of the year in China News Weekly.
Even the Weibo topic arguing whether she "belongs to cultural output" has been read by more than 100 million.
That year, Via was still a "live sister".
Sold 10 billion yuan throughout the year.
That year, when no major events happened, we often excitedly ate melons on the "exploding" Weibo.
Fan Bingbing Li Chen broke up, Song Zhongji Song Huiqiao divorced, Li Xiaolu Jia Nailiang divorced, Dong Xuan Gao Yunxiang divorced...
That year, someone also met Zheng Shuang and Zhang Heng walking hand in hand.
That year, Wu Yifan was also photographed going home with his gossipy girlfriend.
These things seem to have passed a long time.
In fact, it has only been 3 years, and it is already human.
That year, we opened the hot search, and we didn't have to look at the new diagnosis and be shocked.
You don't have to pay attention to the notice every day to see which cell is going to be closed again, and tomorrow is a new round of nucleic acid.
We can comfortably eat melons, brush up on celebrity gossip, and chop hands in the live broadcast room.
At that time, everything was just ordinary.
The excitement of that year made me miss it immensely.
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In 2019, it is not without heartache.
In April, the spire of Notre Dame cathedral was torn down by fire.
In the summer, the Amazon, the lungs of the earth, was hit by another fire.
Kyo Ani, the first studio of Kyoto Animation in Japan, had the worst arson case since the Heisei period.
And many more disasters:
Ethiopian Airlines crashed, 157 passengers, including 8 Chinese, none survived.
Among them, there is a senior girl, who is only 22 years old.
Originally, the plane landed, and she planned to go to Kenya with her boyfriend to see giraffes.
The boyfriend rushed to the scene of the crash to search for the relics, but the wreckage of the plane scattered on the ground had long been unrecognizable, and he could only take away a piece of yellow soil to remember the Si people.
Sri Lanka suffered multiple bombings in a row.
Of the 253 deaths, 6 of them were Chinese citizens.
That year, there were also many people who cried and survived.
Late at night in Wuhan, a mother sat alone in the aisle of a subway station.
A staff member came to inquire and comfort her, and she suddenly cried when she hugged the stranger.
"I've been working overtime for 1 month, and now that I'm done and off work, I don't know what to do or where to go;
I didn't dare to go home and cry, for fear of scaring my daughter, I only dared to cry outside. ”
In the subway station in Nanjing, a man in a suit was lying on the ground crying and vomiting.
He said he hated socializing, but that day, in order to sign a business, he had to go out and drink with customers.
And whether it can be negotiated or not, I have to wait for the news, and my heart is particularly sad.
In Hangzhou, a guy riding a bicycle retrograde was stopped by the traffic police.
He had just graduated for a few years, working overtime until late at night when his girlfriend suddenly asked him to deliver the keys.
Urged by both sides, like a balloon that was inflated by an air pump, he suddenly encountered a needle.
He burst into tears: "I'm really annoyed... I'm so stressed..."
But that year, there were also uncles wearing hard hats and bouncing in the night.
That moment healed the collapse of countless people.
That year, there were no repeated outbreaks.
We have not yet won a battle against domestic epidemic prevention, and we must strictly guard against imported cases from abroad, and as a result, there are now more than 100 medium- and high-risk areas in the country that are tired.
That year, we sighed and moved forward.
I just think that life is difficult, and I can always pass by gritting my teeth.
But today, no one can easily stay out of it.
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At the beginning of 2019, Wang Xing, the founder of Meituan, once forwarded a sentence on the homepage of The Rice No.
"2019 may be the worst year of the last decade, but it will be the best year of the next decade."
Standing 3 years later today, I only feel a kind of heartache that can't be laughed at.
That year's children could walk around the campus and get along with their classmates day and night.
Instead of being helpless in the face of day-to-day online classes and school closures.
The graduates of that year can say goodbye to the campus and the same window.
Instead of the cloud group photo, the cloud plucked the spike...
Lovers of that year can invite all their relatives and friends to witness their wedding in the staggered fundraising.
There is no need to postpone or cancel the wedding because of the epidemic, and there is no need to wear a wedding dress for nucleic acid.
There will be no groom who can only watch his wedding live outside the auditorium because he did not do nucleic acid in advance.
Lawyers that year could also talk for their clients in court.
Instead of having a star because of the itinerary code, you can only sit on the side of the road for court.
This is our 2019.
Is it perfect? Not.
For us ordinary people, it is just a fairly ordinary period of life for decades.
But it is this ordinary daily life that makes people miss it incomparably.
Standing in 2022, we frequently look back and look at 2019.
Not to reminisce about the past, but to always expect that life can quickly return to that simple plainness.
After the pandemic, go where you want to go, meet the people you want to meet, and love everything you want to love.
Here's what 2019 teaches us:
Don't live up to every seemingly ordinary moment, and don't leave yourself with regrets when you can still grasp it.
Light up [Like] + [Watch], every day in life, live up to it.
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