Some time ago, the neon Tokyo "very windy", Tokyo's steel forest that can not come down at night, under the colorful neon lights, is beautiful, which also attracts many photography enthusiasts.
Neon Tokyo under the lens of Italian photographer Matteo Carella
By: Photographer Liam Wong
The hustle and bustle of the city is beautiful in the artificial light, but the impression obtained is fleeting, and there is no peace, like swallowing a beautiful fruit.
Today, on the contrary, I want to talk about the place outside tokyo's neon , Komori.
Movie "Little Forest"
Komori is a place from the movie "Little Forest", located in the mountains of Tohoku, Japan, and is a small village that does not even have shops.
The villagers work at sunrise and rest at sunset, relying on a pair of industrious hands to manage a small but comfortable life, without dispute with the world. Girls Ichiko is also one of them.
-Life is all about eating well-
This girl, who is likened to the "Japanese version of plums", cultivates and harvests alone every day, picks fresh fruits and vegetables, and then cooks her own food, living a self-sufficient life.
In the summer, she makes her own refreshing and sweet rice wine and drinks it with friends on hot and humid nights.
She picks her favorite tomatoes, cooks dishes, or eats them raw enough.
In the fall, she uses the walnuts and stored rice she had buried the previous year to make rice balls, which she ate as she cut rice this year.
She draws energy from nature and grows her own crops as food, so that every bite of food is more precious, and then she returns to nature to continue working.
-The Meaning of Labor-
Some people say that labor is not like this, and the life in the movie is too beautiful to be real, but it is just for urban literary and artistic youth to enjoy in front of the screen.
But I think that the film is not a pastoral hymn to the sense of pseudo-ritualism for literary and artistic youth, it is sometimes far away from the fireworks of the world, and sometimes it is life itself.
Just as labor sometimes annoys the city: inexhaustible wild weeds, tomatoes that die because of cloudy days, mosquitoes in the fields... And she can only fight it in obscurity.
"In those days when you can only hear your breath, you understand that loneliness is life."
In one breath and one breath, only through hard work can we exhaust the trivial emotions that cannot be expressed through words, but can only be felt by the body.
The hunger caused by labor also makes each meal seem more full, without the great significance of dedication, inheritance, cultural integrity, etc., and it is the most enviable thing to have three meals in one house and four seasons. Perhaps this is the meaning of labor itself.
-Meaning of Life-
Behind Ichiko's seemingly quiet life, it is actually the inner uneasiness and confusion. Her mother, who had traveled to Tokyo five years ago, was unable to adapt to the fast pace of the city and eventually returned to Komori's old home.
Nor is she entirely content with the status quo. She doesn't want to build a greenhouse for tomato plants that have died so often, because she says she feels like she's going to be here for the rest of her life.
Her best friend Yuta, tired of the city's hypocrisy, chooses to return to Komori and confront herself. He said:
Yuta's words
Faced with the hesitant Ichiko, Yuta said:
Yuta's words made Ichiko fall into deep thought.
It was autumn again, the day of the frost, and Ichiko received a letter from her mother, who had been away from home for five years. In the letter, the mother did not explain her whereabouts, let alone the reason for leaving home. She simply told Ichiko:
"Man himself is like a spiral, and although it always seems to circle in the same place, it is different each time, or up or down or horizontally, drawing the circle a little bigger, a little bigger. Thinking about it, I felt that I should still try harder. ”
Mom escapes from Komori, Ichiko escapes back to Komori, and everyone is spinning like a gyroscope around the small forest in their hearts throughout their lives. Perhaps, this is the meaning of life.
Perhaps each of us has a reserved place called "Komori" in our hearts for us to escape and rest when we are confused and uneasy; let us recognize ourselves and have the strength to start again.
I hope you and I can meet our own little forest in a serious life. ❤
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This article originated from the public account "Jinchuan-riyu".
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