Chapter 47 whim

That day, Amei told me that she was going to Rwanda. It was the eve of Amei's undergraduate graduation.She spoke seriously.I asked her why she had such a whim?She said that because she saw a TV program, it said that the education situation in Rwanda was extremely bad. The elementary schools there were dilapidated and dilapidated. Often, during class, a sudden gust of wind lifted the roof and wrapped it away. The students didn’t even have desks and sat crowded together. On the benches, writing on the knees, what's worse, there is a lack of teachers, and the monthly salary is only 50 dollars... She said that the African children in the camera all have a pair of big bright eyes, which are put into In the future, her heart will never fade away, and it will flutter in her heart day and night, so she feels that she should go there and teach those children.

She has already begun to inquire about possible ways to teach children English there.I told her that many children in poverty-stricken areas of China look forward to teachers who can care for them. There are more performances on TV, and even the image of one of the "big-eyed" girls has been spread overseas. Follow-up reports on her are not enough. Little, why do you always have the eyes of some African children in your heart, but ignore the eyes of those children in poor areas in your own country?Besides, do you know the local language of Rwanda?How do you teach those kids... She was amazed at my criticism, saying that what I reminded her hadn't occurred to her, and her defense was very simple: This idea of ​​mine is beautiful!

Amei had a whim, and I didn't take it seriously at first. After she left, I thought about it, but I couldn't help sighing: Indeed, her ideas are beautiful.It should be rewritten as "sudden whim" as "sudden whim".In a person's life, especially in adolescence, if he has never had such sudden thoughts, it is not abnormal, at least it is a great regret. In fact, when I was young, as well as the brothers and sisters above me, I was in a far purer social psychological field than I am now. Just because I read a book, a movie, a stage performance, or even a short article, a There are many examples of a news photo, a poster, a motto, and a sudden ambition to set one's life in one profession, one orientation, and one model.One of my older sisters watched a Soviet movie "The Female Teacher in the Village" (also translated as "Peaches and Plums in the World"), in which the heroine Varvara was replaced by the most popular actress in the Soviet Union Maretska Ya played the role, and the voice for this role was Shu Xiuwen, who was familiar to movie fans back then.The audience who watched this movie, not just my elder sister, had Varvara's big eyes embedded in their hearts, and they couldn't get rid of them, and they didn't want to get rid of them. When they got out of the movie theater, they vowed to be a people's teacher , Not long after she applied for the university, all the voluntary fillings were normal, and she was admitted to the normal university as she wished.I joined a choir in college, and I often performed in my spare time. At that time, the chorus of a national-level performance group was short of alto. She went, and the classmates were very envious. She said that she could be seconded for a while, but in the final analysis she still wanted to be a teacher.She performed very well in that performance troupe, and visited and performed with the troupe several times in socialist countries such as the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Vietnam. People felt that she had fully adapted to the life role of a chorus member.But one day she went to the cinema to watch the re-screening of "The Female Teacher in the Village", and the enthusiasm came back again. She approached the leader of the troupe and suggested that it is not difficult to assign an alto from the conservatory of music, and she should go back to the Normal University to complete it. To realize her life pursuit of being a rural female teacher.As expected, she later returned to university to complete her diploma and took the initiative to fight for a teaching position in a remote province.Whoever wanted to go there encountered the "Cultural Revolution" soon after, and the teacher's dream was brutally torn to pieces.I met this sister 10 years ago, she has retired and returned to Beijing to settle down.Looking back on the past, I asked her cautiously, if a movie was decided on a whim and for a lifetime... She smiled serenely and told me sincerely that she had no regrets, especially after the reform and opening up, she was on the podium. On the ground, in the chalk dust, I deeply feel the happiness and joy of being ambitious.She asked me in turn: the design of life is completely completed in calm or even ultra-calm and precise calculations, so it must be good?The blood of the human soul is completely dry, is it in a good state?People can be moved by art, documentary information, people and things they encounter by chance, or even a small detail. Isn't it the most beautiful moment in life to have a sudden whim and make great ambitions?If this beautiful light can cover a lifetime, isn't that happiness?

The era is refreshing like moving to a new house, and life is changing like a roller coaster. The sense of strangeness and dizziness includes sweet surprises and panic panic. Who can use simple expressions and simple truths to move and convince others?After all, Amei grew up in a new time and space. After graduation, she did not go to Rwanda, nor did she go to the border areas of the motherland. Instead of becoming a teacher, she joined an internationally renowned foreign-funded enterprise as a white-collar worker. She got involved with that older sister, they have become friends for years, and sometimes I would drink English afternoon tea with them and chat casually.Amei has very different opinions from our two elders on many issues, but we seldom argue, but listen to each other.The heart that binds our two generations together is nothing but

Consensus about whim and whim.Yesterday we sipped tea and had a heart-to-heart talk. We mentioned that after the sudden onset of SARS, many young people watched certain scenes on TV and vowed to study medicine and become doctors and nurses who dared to rush to the forefront. It suddenly occurred to me that although in the end only a part of them, or even a small part, can really fulfill this great wish, all lives that have been moved in their hearts and made vows will be more beautiful because of this.We cherish all the emotions and all the fantasies that have appeared in our own life, and we also hope that the society can cherish every member's life, even if it only shines for a moment, and the sudden goodness that was not fulfilled one by one. Nian Qi thought.Perhaps, it is these beautiful flashes that make the conscience of mankind converge into a fire that will never be extinguished.