In the scorching sun overhead, on the dusty construction site, a young man grabbed the scaffolding crossbar with both hands, got up, spun, took off, flipped, and a series of gymnastic movements flowed through the clouds.
Dark skin, a healthy posture is full of youthful vitality, and the calm eyes are full of perseverance and indomitability.
Recently, this video on Douyin deeply touched me.
The young man in the video is a brick worker at a construction site who began practicing fitness in addition to moving bricks a few years ago. Bricks, steel pipes, wood, scaffolding on the construction site are all his fitness equipment, and there is no protection to avoid injury, but he still insists.
Sweat and blood allowed him to develop the ability to be as light as a swallow on the horizontal bar. Some called him the "Gymnastics Prince on Scaffolding".
He is like a small grass in a rock crevice, self-improvement, striving upwards and growing high.
The picture comes from the Internet, invaded and deleted
In his twenties, he left his hometown, had no education, no car, no house, and did the most primitive porter work every day, exchanging labor for life.
From a secular point of view, such a life is not interesting, and there is no future, but the brick mover is not complaining, not impatient, and lives out his own style in the dusty bricks.
Even after the short video platform unexpectedly became popular, he continued to move bricks and fitness steadily. Young, but very sober.
Many times, we are not willing to accept our own ordinariness, tired of following the rules and the same life, and not wanting to live a life that can be seen at a glance.
We are always seeking the meaning of life, but why do we come to this earthly world?
Some people, living for money, take "wealth freedom" as the ultimate goal of life, plunge into the career, and work hard.
Some people, living for a false name, are always looking for a search, finding their own sense of existence in other people's worlds. I'd rather keep tossing and turning than live in a pool of stagnant water.
When you are young, people are always so righteous, always feel that time is endless, but by the twilight of life, the once short-lived glory has long been lonely, and the temporary false name has drifted like smoke, and the freedom of wealth has still not been realized.
Suddenly looking back, I was shocked to realize that those who missed the time to accompany their children's growth, missed the opportunity to filial piety to their parents, missed the long-term conversation with their lovers, and missed the reunion with friends, and could no longer make up for it.
The lost health has long been unable to come back, "the first half of life with health for money, the second half of life with money for life." That's a shame.
When we are defeated by the worldly vision and overwhelmed by the weight of life, stop, look in the direction of coming, think about the way back, and perhaps, we will suddenly understand:
To be alive is meaning in itself.
We have cried, laughed, loved, hated, this is our life,
The spring breeze when we are proud, the dejected head when we are frustrated, the enthusiasm when the smooth sailing is smooth, and the suffering when we have gone through ups and downs are all the marks we have walked.
There is a question on Zhihu: "What is the moment when you feel your most courageous?" Someone replied, "It's the time of birth," which may seem like a joke, but it's not unreasonable.
We have magically grown from a cell to a little person, so hard to come into this world, we have to live this life well.
Our lives are already miracles, please be grateful and cherish them.
Ji Xianlin talked about life, he said: "Each generation has its own distance to run, like a chain, is composed of many rings, each ring from its own point of view, is only a trivial little thing, without this little thing, the chain can not be formed ..."
Now read it, deeply believed.
Everyone's existence is valuable, and they are all a part of this generational and endless life.
Let go of attachment, take off the disguise,
No more searching, no more wandering,
Ordinary is not terrible! Live with ease, live more thoroughly, live more freely.
No why, just because we exist in this world, we must live passionately,
Be a flower that blooms in thorns, and no matter how difficult it is, you must bloom fearlessly!