Travel Notes | Three Days and Two Nights Trip to Tiantai Mountain

There is no relationship between people at all, but a few words of conversation seem to create a connection with a new stranger. This connection can be short-lived or long-term.

It's really amazing.

So you have to cherish your friends who you can often meet up with. There are too many restrictions in this era. There are still people who are willing to put aside their work, give up their rest time, and travel thousands of miles to meet in the severe cold and heat. It is worth cherishing. After all, in the adult world, it is easy not to see each other again, but it is difficult to see each other again. It's hard. And even if they meet, there will still be a lot of "force majeure" waiting for them.

Fortunately, when we gradually no longer regard checking in as the first priority, traveling is just a vacation. For Aguai and I, the three-day and two-night trip to the rooftop can be regarded as a vacation filled with all kinds of force majeure.

 

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"We got separated in the crowd,

Meet again in the mountains and sea. "

{Inside Guoqing Temple}

 

In fact, traveling itself is very tiring. Frequent changes of transportation, enduring boring and long waits, and walking with heavy loads under the scorching sun only give you a few minutes of happiness in the end. It doesn't seem like a good deal. But the value of a trip goes far beyond the journey. It is not a disposable consumer product: The expectations before the trip begins; the communication with friends who have not been in touch for a long time due to busy work to plan the itinerary; the daily life "Extracting" and entering a new environment, creating beautiful memories that can be recalled after the trip is over; and expanding the map of "Minecraft" can bring great emotional value.
For example, when I got old, I went to the nursing home to find Aguai. We sat side by side on the wicker chairs just like we sat side by side on the suitcases, chatting about the cool autumn breeze beside the Tiantai Mountain high-speed rail station fifty years ago.

{Rice fields near Guoqing Temple}

 

There is a large rice field near the B&B where we stayed. I am not unfamiliar with rice fields. After all, my hometown is famous for its high-quality rice. I rarely see the sunset in the rice fields. To be precise, many things under the sunset are quite unfamiliar to me.

It was when the sunset had just gone down, and the other edges of the sky had darkened, except for a circle of crimson left in the sky in the west. After a few minutes, the inconspicuous crescent moon and stars on the sky began to shine brightly. The rice, which is about to mature, stands quietly, densely packed with heads next to each other. The sudden warmth of autumn was strangely muggy. There was no wind and everything was still.

{grains dried by monks}

It seems that all dusk is still. Sometimes I think that this stillness has nothing to do with whether there is wind or not. Everything is holding its breath in silence at this moment. I straightened my back on the field ridge, and my good friend took a photo for me ten steps away. The moment she pressed the shutter, I felt like everyone around me except myself was frozen in gel. At this time, I could see everything extremely clearly, every detail, but all these extremely clear things were two-dimensional. There was a sparrow flying over, like flying over a painting. I turned my neck and took a deep breath. Whether it was the dusk moon or the field wind, it was extremely familiar and inexplicably intimate. It seemed to have happened before - when I was not a human being, I had stood like this, beside such a rice field.

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"As I walked down a road,

I always think about things on the other side of the road.

At this time, I feel very confused. "

{Inside Guoqing Temple}

The vacation freed me from the overwhelming work state, and I figured out a lot of things.

In fact, compared with me at this time last year, I have failed a bit at the social level this year - I did not get a promotion or a substantial salary increase, I did not take care of my family members immediately when they were sick, and my communication with good friends has become There are not that many, and still do not get married and have children like normal women in the eyes of the public...

{Incense in temples mostly shines on devout pilgrims}

I recently realized a truth: "Life doesn't start after you finish something." For example, after finishing an exam, graduating, and finding a job, whenever I have to finish something at a certain point in time, There are always people around me who tell me with the most unpretentious manner not to get into trouble. Most people will not have a smooth life because of one incident. After experiencing this incident, life will still face new failures and setbacks.

We will find that after we work hard to complete something, life will continue to repeat itself as before, but the specific form of frustration has changed. Between completing something and the preparation process for completing it, we should pay more attention to the process. The process of preparation is a process of repeated practice and construction. People are both concrete and abstract. A person at a certain point in time is a slice of a specific person. Without this point in time and the process of forming a timeline from time points, I would not be myself.

{repeat on the moss}

I have never been to the Great Wall, but I have glimpsed its majestic windings in various videos and texts. But if I really stood on the Great Wall and touched its bricks, I would still be shocked when I jumped out of the world to watch it. Well? It’s hard to say that if you delve too much into the minutiae, you often lose the sense of the big picture. Perhaps compared with the ups and downs of other people's lives, my life is just a stream on the plain. I am just too concerned about the tumble of the water in the stream, so I forget that the water is supposed to flow eastward.

There is nothing to be hesitant and sad, and there is no need to be sad or afraid. As long as you are a sincere and kind person, work hard if you want it, change another path if you don't want it, do it again if you don't admit defeat, and learn with humility if you are convinced. Taking stock of everything, I have been living in this world for more than twenty years. The days that I continue to live in the future must be happy days.

 

 

Travel planning in 2022 is more difficult than every year in the past.
It has been a whole year since I left Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai.
See you next time, my friend.