I.
This Spring Festival is so short, this Spring Festival is so long.
This Spring Festival, when more than a billion people sat around the New Year's Eve dinner table and watched a Spring Festival gala, everything changed.
This Spring Festival, the most important holiday for Chinese people, was forgotten by the Chinese themselves.
This Spring Festival, the world learned what the Chinese were up to.
The word "home," a slightly pejorative term, has become the "standard" for the Spring Festival of 2020 for most people, and has a positive "value".
The fingertips of epidemic prevention and control, pressed the "pause" command. Changed the pace of society, changed the state of the country, and changed the lives of everyone, everything we know.
Like Liu Cixin said in the beginning of "Wandering Earth": initially, no one cared about this disaster, it is just a fire, a drought, the extinction of a species, the disappearance of a city. Until this disaster is closely related to everyone.
In this "house" days, because of the TV, Internet, cell phone information flow, you on the overall pattern of the world, the country's overall call, the whole society's rescue action, the party's unified mobilization, on the front line of those who are sure to know, know, surely heartbroken, tears, touched, Excited, cheered, helpless, complained, resented and cursed. In this epidemic, I think, everyone's heart is like riding a roller coaster, ups and downs.
Because this epidemic has affected your normal life, your normal income, your normal social life, and everything that should be normal for you.
So, I wonder if it has affected your thinking, your view of the world, your choices in life?
First, a few brief excerpts of words and things that have been retweeted many times during this epidemic:
☆It's finally time to contribute to the country just by sleeping at home.
☆The old dream was to live like a pig, eating and sleeping, not realizing that after just a few days it would be too much to bear, and being a pig is actually quite difficult.
WeChat friends circle inside, bored with counting melon seeds, counting dragon fruit seeds, counting strawberry seeds, counting rice grains, counting raisins, counting a catty of sugar how many grains?......
Convey positive energy with eating and sleeping, show off making contributions with playing games, verify Earth's gravity with standing brooms, and deliver oranges ......
I don't think everyone has done it, I guess most people just see such tweets sent out to boomerang, and by the way they soothe their boredom.
But why boredom? Have you ever thought about it? I asked a lot of people, stay at home to do what. Some said watching TV, some said playing games. The most answers are: eat and sleep, sleep and eat, gained a few
pounds, a dozen pounds.
How could such a day not be boring?
Two,
I don't know how many people have thought:
The previous days were too perfunctory, too unserious, the work is too passionless, no power. I don't know how many people at home when secretly resolved: in the future I want to work seriously and hard, responsible and attitude life.
I don't know how many people have remembered the words of Paul Kochagin: a person's life should be spent in this way: looking back, he will not regret because of the wasted years, and not because of the shame of doing nothing.
I believe that when the world is suspended and quiet, many people think this way.
I believe: when you are bored with another day, lying in bed but sleepy, many people think like this.
Because it is, in fact, your inner voice.
Yes, you thought about it. Then you picked up your phone again and turned on Shakeology, Snapchat, TV shows, favorite games ...... Until sleep overtakes you and the phone slips from your hand.
One day at a time, it went by like that.
Because you don't belong to Hubei or Wuhan or any of the other areas hit hard by the epidemic, you're not one of those numbers released on the news on TV every day. You are the majority outside of them, the lucky ones who are just wearing it at home despite being firmly locked in by the haze of the virus.
You have not experienced your own moments of life and death in this epidemic, you have not faced up to the sudden, bitter blow this epidemic has dealt you. You cannot possibly put yourself in the shoes of the cruelty of this epidemic.
So, day after day, it went by.
Yes, we were lucky this time. But who can guarantee that the next time, and the next time, we'll always be lucky?
At that time, will you be able to pay for what you did with what you have now, for what you were at that time? Will you still be lying in your hospital bed remembering, once again, the true voice of your heart?
It is estimated that, at that time, what you think, what you do, will not have the opportunity.
Three.
The effects of disaster are everywhere.
As the old saying goes, when the nest is overthrown, no egg is left intact.
Writer Fang Fang said: a speck of dust of the times, falling on an individual's head, is a mountain.
Yesterday, I called my cousin in my hometown in Hubei, whose father had another relapse after lung cancer surgery. Because of the epidemic, the community is not allowed to go out; because of the epidemic, hospital beds are extremely tight. The family ran around for a few days, and finally got a permit to go out, found a bed, and sent their critically ill father into the hospital to be rescued, and the doctor said that the success rate of another operation was 50%.
But, she said, it was good to finally get her father to the hospital.
She sounded relieved. I wept.
At this point, even getting my father to the hospital became "good news".
I can't imagine her worry about her father's condition, nor can I imagine the family's fear of being infected by the virus as they stayed with him in the hospital.
Despite not being directly related to the new coronavirus, I'm sure her knowledge of the outbreak is definitely much deeper than mine, and much deeper than most.
But not more y than those who have passed away from pneumonia directly due to the Neocoronavirus and their families.
And I, thousands of miles away, can only offer a few empty words of comfort to her, and only a silent prayer for the health and safety of all my loved ones.
That's all.
This is the difference between an insider and an outsider, between a party and a bystander.
Four,
Recently, I have been thinking about what kind of life is the life I want. In fact, this question has crossed my mind many times.
Many people have thought about it too, many times.
Everyone has their own answer, which varies.
But basically, most people come to the sad realization of how difficult it is to achieve their ideal life, their dreams.
A world away from their own reality.
Because people's desires are too big and too many, the human heart is too complex, and human nature does not know enough. And society is very realistic and cruel.
Ideal is very rich, reality is very bone.
So, a few people chose to break through, succeeded, chrysalis into a butterfly; failed, all will never recover.
So the majority of people can only time and again to lower their own standards of ideal life, to try to adapt to the reality of the environment.
I, too, am the same.
In the end, it boils down to the last, and bottom line self-torture:
"How am I going to get a foothold in society?"
There are too many answers to this question.
Chicken soup says: Look, people who are better than you are still working hard, so don't you hold on tight?
But right away, there will be toxic chicken soup out of the counterargument: you see, better than you are still working hard, what is the use of your efforts?
You said in your heart: after the epidemic, I must work hard and work hard to live a good life, and not to lose my youthful years.
But some people immediately said: the first thing after the epidemic, must go shopping, from ten o'clock in the morning to ten o'clock in the evening kind of shopping! Swimming, undersea fishing, extra food, steak, see diehard gossip together to watch a movie. Of course, the game needs to be put on hold for a while, because this Spring Festival holiday, most people are playing vomit.
You know what's right, but really doing it, it's hard. I find it hard too.
You know what's wrong, but just thinking about it makes you think, what a blast.
So you just wait, contentedly and boringly, day after day for the epidemic to pass.
Because it's part of human nature to seek a life of comfort.
For, man is always good at remembering joy and always good at forgetting suffering.
V.
This epidemic, apart from life and death, has put the most brutal reality check on many people.
What do you need? What don't you need?
The answer is made obvious by the facts.
You need: good health, three meals a day, a roof over your head, a career with a steady income (not a muckraker), and some savings to cope with risk.
That way, in the face of disaster, you can afford to live and survive.
You need: a group of caring relatives, a few confidantes who push their hearts.
So that, in the face of difficulties, you can live comfortably and comfortably.
You need: the attitude of self-improvement, reading and learning hobby, thrifty habits, calm and relaxed mind, open-minded and cheerful character, noble and elegant realm, unique self-reliant soul ......
This way, in the face of pain, you can live a frank and happy.
Of course, I don't want to educate anyone, I can't do it myself yet, and I don't dare to ask everyone to be like that.
In the face of this epidemic, like most people, I found that: standing at the window, looking at the empty, incredibly quiet streets, those bustling lights seem not to need; those who call friends useless socializing, dinner, wine, cards seem not to need; when the face do not have to wash, wear a piece of loungewear, a pair of slippers can be the end of the day, those designer clothes, shoes, bags, cosmetics seem not to need; sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep.
At home and parents have a pleasant chat, and children do a handmade, draw a copy of the handbook, with a mask to go out and throw a garbage, carry a bucket of pure water, buy a dish, to the cold wind adhere to the community door control personnel to chat a few days, to say a word, "hard", are more important than these to the importance of.
Because this is the most simple life.
The outbreak is a disaster, but it also gives us a chance to change our minds.
Sixth,
As an old employee in a state-owned enterprise for decades, usually busy, year-end in a variety of summaries, plans, a variety of assessments, meetings, and even more busy.
Especially at the end of 2019, and received a few special important tasks, more than two months did not go home, the work of the time is not enough, every day overtime to two or three o'clock in the morning, every day of the day like a war, the race to the finish line, they sometimes feel miserable. At that time, I thought, when I went home for the New Year, I must sleep hard for a few days, play a few days, and relax.
But after staying at home for a few days, I felt those busy days, so good.
It's not pretentious, I don't want to take credit for it, it's just the true state of mind.
Because each day was fulfilling. Because it's nice to look back and feel happy that I worked hard for those jobs and accomplished a little something.
So, with this mindset, and then from the TV to see those who have been fighting in Hubei, in Wuhan, fighting across the country for the epidemic prevention and control of silent dedication, those who can not shift vacation because of the epidemic, always stick to their jobs, those party members, charitable people, volunteers, there is a whole new feeling.
Every sacrifice is great and moving!
Every struggler is great and revered!
Every laborer is great and admirable!
Every giver is great and admirable!
But what I want to express is that their hearts should all be content, full and happy!
I am reminded of a line from Soldier's Raid: Because they live a meaningful life!
A meaningful life with meaningful work is a meaningful life.
A meaningful life is the life that should be the one we want most.
VII.
Now, the total number of new confirmed and suspected cases released every day is increasing despite the fact that the number is getting less and less every day. Because I know that is not simply a number, is a living person, is a virus dragged into the suffering of the family. As a person whose hometown is Hubei, I can't bear to shout "Go for it" to Hubei and Wuhan.
After all, I am thousands of miles away from you in Shaanxi, and all I can do is to do my own thing.
A few days ago when the state let the house in the home when I stayed at home, do not add to the chaos. Now that I've returned to work, I'm trying to do something as small as I can compared to the people on the front lines of the "epidemic".
But I still must say one thing: Wuhan go, Hubei go! I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that!
I think this statement is really the voice of the vast majority of Chinese people!
(As for the various "clowns" who have been exposed in this epidemic, I personally think that many of them are not Chinese. Some of them don't even deserve to be human beings.)
Eight,
Finally, I would like to quote a few quotes from this "war epidemic" once again:
1. There are no heroes in the world who fall from the sky, but only the mortals who step forward.
2. The Chinese are always well protected by the bravest among them.
3. Our best time is now.
4. When you are born in the world, there are three things you should not laugh at: no laughing at natural disasters, no laughing at man-made disasters, no laughing at illnesses. The ground as a person, there are "three not black": the teacher of education, save people's doctors, protect the country's army.
5. Every unusual breath is the grace of life.
6. Wuhan would have been a very heroic city, China would have been a very heroic country.
7. We celebrate courage because human beings have always chosen to do what we have to do when we know the risks.
Despite the severity of this epidemic we face, despite all the disasters that can still happen. Despite all the lies and discordant voices, and despite the fact that a small group of people have played a very unsavory role in this epidemic.
But I firmly believe that we can win this battle!
Because we are connected by blood, because we have the tradition of "one side in trouble, eight sides to support".
Because, as you can see, we have the best system in the world to keep more than a billion people at home at a moment's notice.
Because, as you can see, there are many people who have taken the oath "regardless of reward, regardless of life and death", and pressed the bright red handprints.
Because you can see that there are still many people who are exhausted in their posts and sacrificed on the front line.
Because we are backed by a great party, a great country, a great army and a great people.
Because we live in a great country, born in a great era.