Author: Cao Chunlei Director of the Research Office of the People's Procuratorate of Weihai City, Shandong Province. Personal public number: Late night sugar. Original title: After the storm, cherish the rainbow.
“I don’t want him to grow up ! He’s so cute. I love his cute little smiles! I want him stay little and I don’t wanna die when I’m 100.”
During my lunch break, I was so touched by a video. The younger sister loves her younger brother who is less than one year old very much, hugs her brother, and tells her mother how she feels while crying. After watching the video several times, I laughed at the screen at first, and then tears filled my eyes. Looking at the cute little baby, I also want to learn the little sister in the video, saying to my two children: Mom hopes that you will never grow up, always accompany you, and Mom does not want to die at the age of 100.
In the tense state of resistance to the epidemic for several days, it is inevitable that depression and discomfort will arise from the bottom of the heart, grounded, closed, on duty, rotated, although they have not reached the front line of the fight against the "epidemic", but what they see and hear is about suspected, confirmed, infected, death and other news. While reading Dabao, I learned some popular English words: quarantine, novel coronavirus, and also figured out why "new" is translated as "novel" and not "new", because this virus has never been seen before, very novel and rare.
Sensory nerves are gradually numb before the official data and cases, the mind is sometimes short-circuited, and the philosophical triple-kill problem often comes to mind: who am I, where am I, what am I going to do! The idea of many articles often does not go on, many times I want to write by hand, my thinking is in a rigid state, my emotions cannot be easily mobilized as before, and the whole person is in a very depressed state. It is estimated that this is the negative impact of the epidemic.
These days, we are often thinking about the meaning of life, what are we working hard for now, striving, positive, upward? For what to endure hardships, endurance, cases, labor shapes? For what to spend the morning bell, twilight drum, winter, hot summer? In the past, I was very concerned about clothing, food, communication, popularity, and recognition, but in fact, looking back, it was all over the clouds, fleeting. Now I suddenly understand that in this world, there are no major events except life and death.
At the moment, I really don't want any growth platform, personal value, and professional glory, I simply want to guard the two children in front of me, watch them laugh and quarrel, wake up together in the morning light, sleep peacefully in the night, do not envy the glory and wealth, and only hope that the years will be quiet.
When reading bedtime stories to Xiao Bao, Xiao Bao was very interested in "The Story of the Mole Entering the City" and asked to read it every night. It tells the story of humanity bulldozing deforestation and building new cities on a large scale. The little mole and his friends were compensated for an apartment, but did not adapt to the interior decoration of the rubber forest, and eventually rode a swan to escape the roar of cars and high-rise buildings in search of a new home.
Reflecting on your current life, it is actually similar to what is said in the book. With the advancement of urbanization, people are increasingly dependent on the development of transportation, the proliferation of high-rise buildings, the expansion of the territory, as well as online ordering, online shopping, home delivery, enjoying and vigorously promoting this lifestyle. The concept of "cities make life better" is becoming more and more popular, and people who enjoy a convenient life often ignore the hidden dangers caused by intensive life, and are often in an indifferent posture of "everything is dealt with" for possible risks in the future.
I spent my childhood in the countryside and came into contact with a world that was both natural and organic. The water drunk is "shaken" from the well in the courtyard, the grain and vegetables eaten are grown from the field of the family, and the quilt covered is pure cotton. At that time, children did not have any snacks and toys, and their favorite meal was "flower rice" - sweet potato taro pickled cabbage steamed in one pot. Of course, there are not so many electronic devices at home, and the only large-scale household appliances - televisions are basically covered by cloth because of the unstable voltage in the village, so there is no light pollution, electromagnetic radiation and myopia. The scope of people's lives is very small, there is almost no concept of tourism, and the farthest place many people around them have ever been is the big market in the town. At that time, the sky was very blue, there were small fish in the water, there were endless wildflowers in the fields, and the days were simple and happy.
I once fantasized in my essay about how developed the world would be in the future, with flying machines, automatic growth and harvesting of vegetables, and distribution of grain on demand... But I never thought there would be smog, pollution, radiation, and super viruses in the future. Despite the highly developed technology, in the omnipotent and invincible modern society, human beings will still be controlled by nature, there will still be many problems that cannot be solved, and they will still be killed by viruses.
Before the epidemic, everyone will pursue the maximization of material enjoyment as much as possible, live in a big house, change high-end cars, engage in luxury decoration, continue to expand from domestic cities to foreign attractions, baby and young food toys and daily wear also consider the use of international big brands, the scale of the city is getting bigger and bigger, and the material demand is getting more and more expanding. People's deterioration in water quality, air pollution, hormone addition, methanol exceeding the standard and other phenomena from the initial anger to today's habits, as if the change of living environment has nothing to do with individual behavior, and has nothing to do with the current popular consumerism. After experiencing the epidemic and testing life and death, I feel how ridiculous these are, and only the safety of my family is the most worthy pursuit.
In order to prevent and control the infection, it is required to isolate at home, to wear a mask when going out, to wash hands frequently and ventilate more, to go to less densely populated places, to disinfect the whole body before entering the door, and to be more than 1.5 meters apart between people when queuing... Many netizens jokingly call it the "European-style" life method. In fact, these measures should be paid attention not only during the epidemic period, but also in normal times. Population piling up does increase the chance of virus infection, contact with unclean items can also lead to illness, fecal-oral transmission must be taken seriously, and washing hands after defecation is common sense and good habit. Many small details that were not paid attention to before, because the outbreak of the epidemic has been re-examined, many habits that have not been formed, and now need to be seriously cultivated, which can also be regarded as the harvest after fighting the "epidemic" and fighting the "epidemic"!
How can you see a rainbow without experiencing wind and rain. After the epidemic, I don't want to talk about the cup, I don't want to sing a song, I don't want to eat hot pot all over the world, I just want to take my children to the suburbs, find a piece of blue sky and clear water and green grass, lie in the shade, listen to the chirping of birds, smell the fragrance of flowers, feel the gentleness of the breeze, return to nature, and embrace nature.
May you and I be well, and may there be peace in the world.