Perhaps it is due to nature, I like to slow down the day, leisurely, doing nothing, not panic, no need to chase. The sky and the earth are there, the four seasons change, and people are also here. Slowly in harmony with them, you can feel that you exist between the heaven and the earth and between the time sequence. This is what I understand, the actual meaning of "human beings dwell on the earth poetically".
Mother is a gentle person, but when the farming season is busy, she will be anxious and urge, often quarreling with her father. Like mothers, mothers-in-laws are also dedicated to farming. They work all their lives on the land, echoing the growth of the crops. They should be fast when they should be fast and slow when they should be slow. For example, in winter, they can also eat tea while guarding a stove. .
There are not many households living in my mother's hometown, so the "popularity" has faded. The mother-in-law’s hometown is okay. The second mother-in-law’s home is next to him who has no five clothes. There is a son who counts less than twenty. When I went back, I saw him herding cattle and sheep on the hillside, looking lonely and melancholy from his back. I haven't mentioned my wife in my 30s, so the loneliness and melancholy also seem to be more intense.
However, there is another possibility for a person to watch cows and sheep grazing silently between the mountains and the wild, and to be company with these animals. Just like the children with insufficient intelligence in Chi Zijian's novels, they often have other talents.
I entered the factory to work at the age of 20. I was envied by the neighbourhood at the time, but from the first day of work, it was difficult for me to adapt. After I left my hometown, I often thought of the smell of the crops, the air in the fields and the floating clouds in the sky, the chickens and dogs in the village and the neighbours quarreling, and the old cow pulling a broken car like a slow time.
However, it is slow or fast, and sometimes it is not up to people to choose. There was a period of intense catching up, when the boss of that large company was extremely demanding. Later I saw him again. He said that it was not until he was sixty years old that he understood that perfectionism is a shortcoming, because the pressure and demand at work have harmed his health. Now he is pursuing a simple life more and more, and he can also take care of studying red studies, poetry writing, and then slowly handing over the tasks of his work. Finally one day he also led a slow life accompanied by poetry and books.
Inspirational and spiritual chicken soup may say that because it is faster than it is, it is now qualified to be slow. That is the calmness that has the bottom of the material. However, I don't think it is all. The mother-in-law is constantly busy, and she seems to have a tacit understanding with the life of crops. Despite the urgent farm work, she has a kind of leisure. She diligently planted flowers for half of the yard. When the flowers were blooming, she carried a bucket to water the plants one by one. The eyes of this young peasant woman were not far from the poet.
I can't keep up with the fast pace of life. What I enjoy most is always the moment of calm down. I like the peace of mind that the sun and clouds slowly shift in the sky.
Everything is changing with each passing day in this era. After informationization, everything is speeding up. The trains of the times are swift and fast, I am the one who can't catch up, and then gave up on chasing, and then went to see the grass on both sides of the track.
In the past hundred years, trains replaced horse-drawn carriages. Later, airplanes surpassed cars, motor cars surpassed trains, and rockets took humans to space. Everything is getting faster and faster, telephones have replaced letters, and videos can see each other thousands of miles away. In WeChat, we receive countless information in one day, which covers everything and everything.
One day my mobile phone malfunctioned, and I restored it to factory settings. There was no QQ and WeChat prompts, no anxiety of being overwhelmed by information, and life suddenly became clear. One day, I forgot to bring my mobile phone, and found that there was nothing missing in the world, and everything went on as usual.
In a fast-paced era, I am lucky to be a slow-paced resident. For me, this is a blessing.
