One day, we will understand the mercy of time

Among Chinese modern and contemporary female writers, Zhang Ailing's life is legendary, with a brilliant and dazzling past of fame, a shocking love experience, a colorful and swaying Shanghai story, a gorgeous and sad Hong Kong love affair, and a remote life, and the fate of great ups and downs is presented in the text, but it is a gentle and quiet narrative, with an unusual clarity and calmness, which fascinates people.

After a thousand sails, reading all the cold and warm, and finally turning into a light monologue: "In the tens of millions of people to meet the people you meet, in the tens of millions of years, in the wilderness of time, there is no earlier step, no later." I just happened to meet it, and there was nothing else to say—oh! You're here too. ”

Love and hate, all become a fading past, so indifferent, all because of the understanding of the compassion of time.

Life is not Tang poetry and Song Poetry, not Yangchun White Snow, encountering all kinds of wind and frost misfortune, it is common, Yu Hua's "Alive", the reason why it has become a contemporary classic in the minds of everyone, is only because it incomparably really touches the suffering of the world, so that readers can see the cruelty of fate through the life and death tragedies encountered by the characters, and find a trace of warmth that has not been completely extinguished in the end with tragic meaning.

History has stretched Fugui's life into a track, rumbling from above, robbing parents, children, and acquaintances, forcing him to meet with life and death again and again, and finally, even the box of shadow that symbolizes Fugui's identity and accompanies him for most of his life has been burned, leaving only the box. At the end of the novel, Fugui drags an empty shadow box from under the bed, lets the only grandson who accompanies him put the chickens in it, and then begins to tell his ancient story: when the chicken grows up, it will become a goose, the goose will become a sheep when it grows up, the sheep will become a cow when it grows up, and after the cow, the grandchildren will grow up... The shadow box, the box that was once full of hope, and finally, in another way, it was filled with hope.

In the tragic fate of the characters, it is easy for us to contemplate ourselves, go through all the ups and downs, taste all the heartache, and the heart also goes from the initial shock, panic, anger, struggle, despair, and finally, in the meager possession, we feel that time still has some compassion for ourselves, so we continue to try to maintain the lamp of faith and stubbornly move forward.

Not every effort can get the desired results, not every counterattack can repel the storm that comes back. Santiago in "The Old Man and the Sea" has fought sharks five times at sea, each time losing a lot, and after a brief period of chagrin, he will once again tell himself that everything is not the worst, he is still alive, the ship is still there, everything on the ship can be used as a weapon of struggle, and the big marlin that he has worked so hard to catch from the open sea has not been completely lost. Because of this, he crossed the crisis-ridden vast sea and returned to the shore, although the marlin only had a skeleton left, and the only thing he brought back was the exhaustion and pain that pervaded his whole body, but he was finally able to pillow the night of the lights of thousands of homes and embrace a dream of great peace of mind and sweetness.

All this, as Yu Hua said: only when you have been crushed by fate can you understand the compassion of time. Those who are treated with compassion by time must grit their teeth in the crushing of fate, rather than waiting for the opportunity to change and sit, and have the heart of "the dusk and sunset are still tireless", and only then will they have the joy of "leaning on the wood gate alone to watch the sunset".

Recently, I saw the famous host Ni Ping, who has not been seen for many years on TV, so old that I was quite surprised, Gu Pan's eyes were dimmed, her face was loose, the vicissitudes were fully revealed, the figure of the former graceful woman had been seriously blessed, and the left and right looked like an old lady who sold vegetables, which made people can't help but send out a time of ruthless sighs. When she told the audience about what had happened over the years, she learned that in 1999, her newborn son suffered from a serious eye disease, and then she left the beloved stage and traveled around the country and abroad as a single mother, trying everything to treat her son and persevering in the face of his repeated attacks. In recent years, everything has improved, her son's body has recovered, and she has appeared on the stage again, although Fanghua is no longer there, her red face is withering, but time has given her calm and wisdom after "crossing the waves", which has added several different charms. She wrote her inner realizations into books, and she also painted those painful and tormented times, all of which became excellent works.

Ni Ping's "Quotations from Grandma" wrote: "When good things come, they say hello in advance, and bad things will hit you on the head and will never notify you in advance." Capable people will become stronger and stronger, and those who can't be smashed down at once. She has always regarded her grandmother's words as her spiritual pillar.

I think that one day we will understand how strong you are in the face of disasters and misfortunes, and how compassionate time will be for you.