Distance (sikever)

Just south of the small city government, there is a main road, and looking south along the main road, is a cone-shaped snowy mountain, which does not look far away. One day after rest, I wanted to walk to the snowy mountain to see, from morning to noon, the snowy mountain still looked so far away, and I returned the same way. After I came back, the people around me said to me, what about the snowy mountains for more than two hundred miles. At that time, I felt that more than two hundred miles, so far away.

In the blink of an eye, twenty years have passed. Think of me at that time, in that small city far away from home, there was no free space, no money, and no vision for the future.

How far are twenty years away? Before, it felt so far away, and now, it feels quite short. Unlike the snowy mountains, the mountains can't go, and they can return, and in these twenty years, I can only go straight forward, and I go faster and faster, and there is never a way back. For twenty years, I have been forced to run forward with my head down, not seeing much scenery, not getting anything, but losing too much. As a servant of the wind and dust, I have experienced vicissitudes and am full of exhaustion.

Look at the people around me, there are far and near, far and invisible, and close, but they are separated by a wall, a variety of walls that cannot be demolished. I couldn't measure the thickness of the wall, I just knew that the wall separated a distance that would never be insurmountable.

Now think about it, the snowy mountains south of that small city are the closest distance, even if they are two thousand miles apart, twenty thousand miles, they can be reached. The time traveled is one-way, it will only go farther and farther, and there is no possibility of turning back. The most complex distance exists between people; the most distant distance is the thickness of the wall between people.