Text: Nanchi Voice: Leon
Two days ago, I took my grandmother, who was in her eighties, back to town.
Since her grandfather's death, she has always stayed in her rural hometown, guarding the old house.
She and I sighed that in the city, everything is convenient, you don't have to do it yourself, sit in the pile of old people, just be an idle person.
In the countryside, all kinds of vegetables dig the ground, play cards and chat with people in their leisure time, and the days are also very good.
She also said that where there is suffering, where there is joy.
Where in the world there is a double full Fa, my heart is at peace.
It was my illiterate grandmother who taught me the philosophy of life in the most rustic language.
Life does not need any grand truth, a grass and a tree, a flower and a tree, are all small worlds, all full of the meaning of life.
I remember seeing such a sentence in an essay by the Japanese healing writer Itokawa:
"People can live wherever they want, and they can decide where they live."
The reason for this feeling is her experience of living in the yurts of nomadic people in extreme cold seasons.
Mongolian nomads predict the growth of grasslands for several years in advance, follow the migration of sheep, and set up temporary mobile yurts.
On the day he left the yurt, Itokawa lay on his back on the green grass and put himself in a big character.
The blue sky fell straight into the eyes, the blades of grass swayed gently, groping the earlobes, it was the sound of the wind blowing, the sky and the earth were vast.
She suddenly realized that no one had to live in a certain place, and that people were so free that they could choose to live anywhere.
Yes, people are free.
In addition to the sun and the air, all we have, only myself, the body can follow the soul and go anywhere.
Home has never been a fixed concept.
The place where the body is born is the home, and the place where the soul is rooted is also the home.
People can have many places to live, and they can have many hometowns.
The hometown can be many kinds of appearances, or poor, or rich, or primitive, or trendy, it has different postures, but it always makes people feel at ease.
Just like my grandmother taught me, knowing its pain, I can also find its own unique happiness.
Home can go with the flow, and the soul follows the waves of the body to every place.
Thoughts can also be untethered.
The world is always instilling in us stereotypical rules such as what a writer should be, a woman should be like that, and what to do at any age.
Those who seem to meet the standards of the masses, in each independent and free individual, are locked up in a small and cramped room, and the branches that grow freely are repaired.
Give it a try, break those routines, do what you want to do, and live the life you want to live.
Writers can also cook good food, women can be independent and self-reliant, and they can still be single at the age of thirty.
As long as you don't harm society, don't hurt others, follow the tide in your heart, and be yourself, why not?
There are so many hardships in life, why not try to make yourself happy.
Try it, go with the flow of life, will also be very happy.
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