Better: We Haven't Even Truly Looked Up at the Sky, Asking About How the Stars Are Doing

It seems like a long time has passed since I've truly taken a hot bath, just busy, busy... ‘Bath’s’ bath industry is also experiencing an unprecedented downturn. Although I, who rarely frequented group baths, didn’t support it much at its peak, seeing its decline, I always had an inexplicable uneasiness in my heart.

Before 2020, we seemed to have never thought about ‘what’s going on in the world?’ We were always thinking about: ‘What’s wrong with my work?’, ‘What’s wrong with my colleagues?’, ‘What’s wrong with my parents?’, ‘What’s wrong with my children?’, ‘What’s wrong with my other half?’, ‘What’s wrong with my money?’, ‘What’s wrong with my stores?’, ‘What’s wrong with my customers?’, ‘What’s wrong with my income?’, ‘What’s wrong with my friends?’, ‘What’s wrong with my copywriting?’... We hadn’t even truly looked up at the sky and asked about how the stars were doing.

I spend time with my children, read a couple of books, spend a couple of seconds on my phone, spend a couple of seconds on my phone, then spend time with my children or do some housework. I can clearly feel that my time is completely fragmented, with no possibility of connecting it.

Perhaps I’m just a sensitive person, or the daily recording has made me more sensitive. I’m moved when my child quietly gazes at the stars, and I sigh when my child listens to the different echoes of sound with earplugs. If you don’t understand this feeling, it’s because you haven’t seen how beautiful the night sky is, or because you haven’t seen how deeply a child is immersed in his own small world when he only lives in it.

I want to be a child again, but I don’t want to be a child of this era. Thinking and thinking, I don’t even know which era I really want to be. Thinking about it, I became worried about the children of today. We have at least experienced life, and they must not let them be deeply affected by the world before they even understand how the world works. Alas… let it go. There’s no ideal era. Only when everyone believes in a beautiful era will the power of belief turn the tide.

People, coexist peacefully with each other. Live together with the same kind, with the same kind, with nature. Put aside those insignificant and unnecessary barriers, hand in hand bravely, for the future, and for future generations!

I re-read’s book, and a wave of authenticity pierced my heart. The part about Lu Anke was particularly striking.

‘Education is between people, and between themselves. It never stops. Just like a tree shaking another tree, a cloud touching another cloud, a soul awakening another soul. As long as this transmission and awakening doesn’t stop, we won’t say goodbye to Lu Anke.’

‘Discipline brings order, but it is passive. Only when a person belongs to a thing, and a group of people, a society, will there be a sense of identity and a willingness to take care of it from the heart.’

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I remember when I was in school, I always envied most of the girls in my class. They always made their notes from beginning to end, neat and orderly, while I would always start writing immediately after finishing, and my handwriting was often messy and careless, with all kinds of symbols and arrows, fearing that if I looked back, I wouldn’t be able to find the logic.

Today, I suddenly mustered up my courage and wanted to copy down every note, and I wanted to see how long it would take me to do it neatly. As a result, although it was better than before, it didn’t reach perfection. I’m sure this has nothing to do with Xiao Meiguo’s interruptions several times.

I re-read Lu Anke’s words again, and carefully understood each word, and I still felt that any extension or judgment was pale and powerless.

I am destined to not be like him. But I still strongly want to practice the world in every sentence of him.

On February 18, 2020, I also joined the team supporting vegetable e-commerce and delivery services.

Remembrance, Yan An......