"Crying Sand" is a song by the famous singer Huang Yingying. The story behind the song is said to be like this.
A man who works as a sea crew member goes out to run ships every year, sailing for half a year or a year, often in two places with his lover. The lonely days at sea made the man understand that his life was determined by the sea. Maybe one day she will lose her life in a hurricane or tsunami, so there is no way to give her a stable life and commitment.
A feeling of love but not getting it, the helplessness of not being able to be together.
Why does the editor's title say that this grief, filipino men understand best? Because filipinos are the most engaged seafarers (sailors). One out of four sailors in the world is a Filipino.
In recent years, shipping companies have begun to hire more seafarers from Vietnam, Myanmar and China. Even so, about 400,000 of the 1.6 million crew members worldwide are Filipinos. In 2018, Philippine seafarers sent a total of $6 billion to their home countries.
Including the Japanese Diamond Princess, which recently found a large number of new coronavirus infections, there are more than 400 staff from the Philippines, who are engaged in security, security and waiter work.
English is the official language of the Philippines, filipinos speak English, attracted by high salaries, most Filipinos are willing to go abroad to work.
Sailors, for example, are paid 10 times or more per month for the average job in the Philippines.
However, the dangers of such work and the long-term mental stress are also extremely challenging.
Working in the sea is dangerous. Over the past decade, 1,036 ships have sunk. Among them, off the coast of Scotland, due to bad weather, the cement carrier overturned, leaving none of the survivors.
Others include electric shock burns and the development of cecalitis. And the treatment couldn't be done in time, and the rescue helicopter would take hours, or days, to arrive.
For the crew, the romance of the sea has long since disappeared, and what is more painful than the repetition of hard and monotonous work is the boring life after work.
There was no internet on board for a long time, isolated from life on land. Fathers miss out on their children's birth and baptismal ceremonies and can't keep in touch with their beloved girlfriends all the time.
The biggest challenge for sailors is to endure loneliness, to endure the loneliness of being separated from their families. If there is nothing to do on the boat, it is easy to fall into depression. There are not a few sailors who commit suicide because they cannot bear this pain.
On many nights, men gather together and sing the song of Simu in the karaoke of the canteen: "When will my heart, thinking of you, wait?" “。 Sailors, a heroic and handsome profession, also have a lot of heartache behind outsiders who don't understand.
Even Filipinos, who always give an optimistic impression, rarely show a lonely look.
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