Without the sea, we have to go far

Alexie 2022-04-23 07:04:18

It is said that it will not be long before the largest material movement on the surface of our planet, the Chinese Spring Festival. At the end of the year, people with their own thoughts, thirst for their thoughts and gluttony for the land, can't wait to return, rest, and then set off again.
There is nothing that can go farther than man, and nothing is more complicated than man's survival and reproduction. Behind the migration of man is deductive method, evolution theory, and the survival of the fittest by social selection. In the early years, a college student poet wrote: Look To see the sea to see the sea, we would also go to distant places without camel bells. The poems are full of youthful sprouting and curiosity about the outside world. Now we are herdsmen, constantly chasing the land with lush water and grass.
If we want to see the sea, we have to go far away.
I met my classmate Tan's father on a long-distance bus in the provincial capital. The man who used to be an excellent teacher in the county town, the man who could play the cello and explain complicated math problems to students, is now due to an economic error. He also packed his bags and went to the south to seek a place to live for himself, as well as for his wife and children at home.
By the Yangtze River, the man asked the woman: Where are you going? The woman replied, go to the south, and the man asked back, isn't this the south? The woman replied: Dongguan, further south. This is a scene in the movie Three Gorges Good People, and it is also the sadness of the Yangtze River. The river feeds people, but people will leave the river. In order to survive, they go further south.
Maybe they just got tired of watching the river and wanted to see the sea.
And we can't see the sea, and we go far away.
In a county in the Yangtze River Basin, there was such an incident. A mentally ill neurotic broke into the village. Without the man's restraint, the neurotic killed several left-behind old people and women. Soon, the China Youth Daily published a report. Article - "Who will protect the villages lacking men", behind the surplus of urban labor is the large output of rural labor, behind the urban economic prosperity is the cramped and uneasy rural and peasant, restless people and flashy cities, people are all Yearning for a better material life, yearning for more financial resources and money, people get what they want but lose what they have.
With or without the sea, people's lives have to go on.
In fact, it does not matter hometown. If there is, then it is the result of our predecessors drifting. It is just a bay in our vein. We have to move forward until we reach our happy destination.
Without the sea, we have to go far away.

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