Interview with the 186th real person
Written by: N
Narrator: Dandan
A former sports player, a small person at the bottom of society, a female truck driver in North America, an unknown sad past. From the Loess Plateau to the ancient city of Xi'an, from the neon-lit Shanghai Beach to the other side of the ocean, from a young girl to a female truck driver...
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Life is like this, ups and downs, there are highlights, and there are lows. The highest point in life is not your highlight moment, nor your low moment, but where your balance point is. Whether it was once a dazzling pride of heaven, or a mediocre general, it has become a thing of the past! I told myself to live hard from this moment, from the moment, toss desperately, and let myself burn, otherwise I'm sorry for the whole youth!
In the early nineties, after the sting, accompanied by a loud cry, I croaked into a cave in a remote mountain village. There was no obstetrician, just a large pair of rusty scissors. My mentally retarded mother used her last strength to wrap me, who was only a few minutes old, and fell into a deep sleep...
Later, my mother was plagued by various diseases, and when I was four years old, I left the countryside to go to the big city to do odd jobs to find medical treatment, and take care of my elderly grandmother, while my father was busy in the fields.
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In 2000, my father took us on a bus to Xi'an, where my mother, whom I hadn't seen for many years, and it became the starting point for igniting my dream... In order to provide us with a good educational environment, my father decided to stay even if he tried his best, so the family of five huddled into a small room at my grandmother's house. The borrowing fee of 300 yuan per person before enrollment is a heavy and loud slap in the face to the already poor family.
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My father was worried about borrowing money to cover tuition fees, and heard that the sports school enrolled students, who could bear hardships and stand hard work and manage accommodation. My father did not hesitate when he heard this, this may be to reduce the way for everyone in the family to eat and live, and I, who have good physical fitness and physical fitness, have become the best candidate. Before graduating from elementary school, I started my sports career with the city team. In the first year of joining the team, I had my first municipal gold medal around my neck, and two years later, I passed five levels and cut six generals, all the way, from the city team to the provincial team, and then to the national team.
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In 2006, I was already on the national team, and I was the one who was known as an Olympic seedling player, but the intensity of training later made me injured several times and could not participate in training. Seeing the opportunity that will soon belong to me, the opportunity to prepare for glory for the country will pass by. Everything is life, not by anyone, and the pre-Olympic selection competition made me miss it in recuperation. I stepped on the train home, and my father was silent when I got home, whether it was disappointment or worry about my future. The coach said to his father: "You can let the child continue to come back to the team to train, she is still young, she still has a chance, her career is not over, and she can do it for a few more years, this project is not like gymnastics and other events." "My father didn't understand and didn't know how to choose. I stood up and said, "I'm not practicing, I'm going to go to work." "Pick up the luggage and go.
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When I first entered the society under 18, no one wanted a lot of work, so I could only start from the bottom. Fortunately, my career as a professional athlete has tempered my tenacity.
On June 28, 2009, I carried a backpack with only nine yuan on me, bought a platform ticket, and climbed onto the train to Shanghai. When I left the station, I stood where I was, until the ticket inspector came and asked me, and I said I had lost my ticket, money, and mobile phone, but in fact I didn't have any of them. In this way, I took advantage of the pity of the ticket checker, who personally escorted me out of the station. I had lingering palpitations in my heart, and finally came out. I silently thought in my heart countless times, thank you Aunt for raising her noble hand and letting me go, in fact, how can my poor acting skills escape.
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I walked all the way along the exit, dry-mouthed and hungry, tiptoed into a small restaurant, and asked with trembling: Do you still want a waiter? The boss, a Shanghainese man in his forties, asked me: summer vacation work or long-term work? I firmly answered: permanent work. The boss said you should eat a bowl of noodles first! After eating, I followed him to the basement, where there was also a girl, cockroaches crawling on the wall and the ground, I did not have a futon, picked up a cardboard box with a refrigerator in the trash can on the first floor, and the night was hot enough to sweat soak the cardboard box, surviving the most difficult time.
Later, I went from waiter to delivery person, from supervisor, minister to manager, and learned all the way. Although I was so hardworking and paid a lot of money, buying a house in my hometown was still a fool's dream, so I decided to take the money to buy my poems and distant places, and live in the moment. Over the years, I haven't saved any money, but I have traveled all over thousands of rivers and mountains, tasted the warmth and coldness of people, and seen all the world.
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In June 2019, a full decade has passed since I first arrived in Shanghai, and the years have left ravines on my father's face, and the tears in my mother's hands that have been soaking in the sink for a long time have made her painful. Do your best to become a son in the end, pity the hearts of parents in the world. My parents have been farmers all their lives and have never left the door three kilometers away, my brother and I discussed taking my parents to Canada to play around, this play is a month, my parents are old, and I have never seen them relax like this for many years. Watching them feed Canada geese and run after marmots is like going back to their childhood.
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I suddenly found that it turned out that they could also slow down, but life forced them to be like an old donkey on a millstone, walking all the way ... Since parents are happy like children here, why not let that happiness continue. Since they are all alive, I should not stand still, I have accepted the history and civilization of Eastern culture for 5,000 years, why not bravely go out and learn a little about Western culture and understand the whole world? So I brought my parents back to my motherland, thinking that I would study abroad and earn more money in the future. Life is once, no matter how you choose, there will be regrets. Then feel free to do what you want to do.
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The following year, the mask incident fermented in the motherland. Everyone was trying to grab supplies and buy vegetables, and I immediately ran to the community to fill in the volunteer information. Seeing the data on my phone increasing day by day, shocking, I dressed neatly, wrapped tightly and firmly walked out of the house, my mother explained worriedly: the mask is not okay to wear two more, I said that it was okay, while carrying the temperature gun and walking out, my mother was like a wronged child, like someone else was going to take away her beloved, and muttered in her mouth: But I am also your daughter!
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Fortunately, under the strict control of the state, the epidemic was quickly controlled. But masks are still expensive and hard to find, so my mother put the masks in a steamer and used them again after steaming. After many inquiries, I learned that my aunt's house in Jiangsu was opening a mask factory and urgently needed workers, and I told my aunt that I was sharp, even if I could produce one more mask a day because of my existence, it was worth it. It doesn't matter how much I am, as long as I am willing to ask for it.
After several months of making masks, we have produced masks of excellent quality, not only to supply the needs of the motherland, but also to export to various countries. Great love knows no borders, regardless of race, but may the world be safe. The demand for masks in the market has gradually decreased, the orders for masks are basically small, and the mask factory has also changed careers, although I have no job, but I am very happy, because this means that the epidemic has dissipated.
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After that, I continued to plan my study abroad path.
In 2021, I got a study permit to land in Canada and began my study career, which is about to end in a year, but I still can't understand people's words, because the foundation is too poor, although I have paid a lot, the result is still unsatisfactory, high tuition fees and living costs, gradually began to bother me.
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I heard that the Canadian truck industry is a high-risk occupation, the salary is quite high, but the ice and snow will be very dangerous, I heard this, smiled disdainfully, am I afraid of death and danger? What I'm afraid of is the speed at which I make money, and I can't keep up with the speed at which my parents are aging!
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I don't know English, it's not modest, I really can't even understand ABCD, I forced myself for two months, mastered all the English related to trucks, not only can understand, can speak and write, and finally passed all the driver's licenses and models, which has to thank the truck coach who has rebuilt me, he taught me to speak English at the same time. Others may think that I am easy and pass all the documents at once. But no one else saw me staying up jet lag and picking a night light, and my brother was giving me a word and letter by letter test of English.
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Just as many years ago, I stood on the highest podium to win the championship, but no one had ever seen me running on the track and field in sweat, no one had ever seen my blood, tears and sweat for sports, everyone could only see the surface. In the adult world, where there is the word easy, it's just that after working hard, I got a satisfactory result, and then said lightly: It's just that.
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At the age of 31, I am still unmarried and childless, and I have no worries, and the only thing I can't let go of is my elderly parents. When will I be able to catch a flight back to China and return to the land in the East that haunts my soul? If it is not a thirst for knowledge, if it is not full of expectations for the future, who wants to leave their homeland.
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The hometown cannot accommodate dreams, and the other country cannot retain the soul. I studied hard and stayed up late night after night, staying in front of my phone video at dusk, waiting for the dawn of my hometown, when my family got up. Countless times I looked east, with tears in my eyes, just because I was so affectionate about that land.
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