I have been in a low mood these past few days, and my mood has been flying for several days. Although I have understood as early as 20 years ago that everything in this world is not worth mentioning except life and death. However, people will gradually forget some truths that they have already understood. The practice of life will recur like an illness, which is really difficult. Lately I have been affected by trivial matters, which is really weak.
After finishing today's work, I looked downstairs at the street. There was already a long line of pick-up and drop-off buses in front of the primary school. The queues were full. I could visually feel the pressure from family, school, and traffic. There are many primary schools in Shanghai. If you think about it, it is like this in front of every primary school. It can also be said to have created social pressure.
I just finished reading Yu Minhong's "The Landscape of the Other Shore" a few days ago. There is a paragraph describing the scene of primary school students after school that he saw in Bhutan: Children walk 5 kilometers to and from school by themselves every day, uphill and downhill, and across several roads. Aren't parents worried that something will happen to their children? Not worried about being abducted? Later, I discovered that there was no need to worry. The cars on the road were very slow, the drivers were very patient, and it was even more impossible to abduct children. Bhutan has a tradition of fertility worship, which encourages procreation. Every family has multiple children. Everyone believes in Buddhism and is good. There is no need to abduct children if they dare not. . .
At the same time, it also brought back memories of my time after school in elementary school. When I was in elementary school, my parents worked in a military scientific research unit. At that time, relations with the United States were tense. Military scientific research units were quite special. In order to keep confidentiality, the entire unit went through a special migration, from Shanghai to a ravine in Wuxi. At that time, Wuxi had rural areas with ravines, but not now. I was studying in a rural primary school there. After school, it was about 3 kilometers away. All the children in the school lined up for several hundred meters, hand in hand, and walked all the way home. I was happy on the way home every day. Firstly, I was free from having to go to class. Secondly, at that time, several children and I liked to do one thing, which was to draw the heroes in the little books. At that time, in the era of little books, that kind of children We like to draw the heroic figures in this comic book, such as the Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Three Kingdoms, the Heroes of the Ming Dynasty, Yang Family Generals, and the Water Margin. We secretly draw them in class, and the 40 minutes on the way home from school are a great time for us to compete with each other and show off our works. There are also many children walking around and watching. Whoever draws well will become the center of the children, and everyone will read it. I read the pages of your drawings and admired them page by page. At that time, I already experienced the experience of being sought after as an "Internet celebrity", so that I started drawing as soon as I got home. My mother was cooking on the stove outside the house. When I came home, I actually stopped going out to play and drew on the table every day. I wondered if this kid had some artistic brains. I thought about it later. It should be that I like the feeling of being sought after. It has been in human nature since I was a child. . .
After talking about school, we talked about going to school. It was the same 40-minute walk. I was very happy, but my mood was different. After all, I felt like going to the "execution ground". The happiness was like a doomsday carnival. There were many things to do on the road. It was divided into four seasons. In spring, we caught butterflies in the rapeseed fields on the road. A friend caught a beautiful butterfly for fun, and then walked all the way through the vegetable field, laughing and joking. Finally, I felt that I was going to be late, so I started to sprint. Although I was playful, I was very timid when I was a child, and I was very afraid of the class teacher. I rushed to school as if I was dying. My heartbeat was so fast and I felt suffocated. It was really exciting. This situation happens almost every day. The difference is that in the summer, we hunt for grasshoppers and mantises, and in the autumn, we hunt for crickets and beetles (a hard-shelled toothed insect that bites people and are very dangerous). In the winter, we don’t have to play. We take a few roasted sweet potatoes and eat them together. When we get to the school gate, everyone throws out the remaining sticky sweet potatoes and sticks them to the wall beside the school gate, and runs into the school gate giggling.
Children who ride this Mercedes-Benz and BMW to and from school have no chance to experience these joys, but they are helpless. There are several reasons, including social security and fear of being trafficked. Nowadays, there are many only children. They are not afraid of ten thousand, but the consequences are really unacceptable.
There are also many cars and crowded traffic, so I'm afraid of bumping into each other and getting tired. This is not a human problem, but a problem caused by urban population expansion, resource constraints, environmental congestion, and complex public security. This is an unsolvable problem, it can only be like this, society is helpless.