Chapter 108 pick green fruit

The painter often rented a small courtyard in the countryside to live in. I saw that there was a high platform outside the gate of his courtyard, with stone side walls and fertile soil in the middle, but only some wild sorrel grew there, so I asked him why he didn’t plant some decent flowers and plants?He said that he had planted some sunflowers in the first year, but before the seeds in the flower pots were full, some children stole them and left them with nothing but stalks and leaves.He sighed frequently and said that when you step into the gate of every house in the village, the flowers, plants and trees inside are very good, but in the public area outside the gate, you can only plant some tall trees with blurred flowers and fruits that are not edible.There are a few peach and apricot trees growing in the alley, and the green fruits are always only slightly bigger than broad beans, so people keep picking them. These trees all present a half-dead appearance.I heard him say that most of the young people in the village destroy green fruits, so I asked why the adults in the village didn't teach them well and set a rule of caring for the flowers, plants and trees in the common area?He thought for a while and said, maybe it was because everyone was poor at one time and couldn't get enough to eat, so when he saw the fruit hanging on the tree, it couldn't wait for it to ripen, and it still looked like green beans, so he wanted to stuff it into his mouth; Yes, although no one has had enough to eat these years, the children are even like the darlings in the city, and they can often buy snacks to eat, but because of a subtle bad habit, when they see green fruits hanging on the trees, they stop Can't stop the desire to shake it down and take it.

When I was walking in the village, I wondered: What kind of thinking pattern is this subtle bad habit?Because it is not your own home, you can take it at will?Since you want to possess it, why not wait until the green fruit becomes ripe before enjoying it?Maybe I think that I can wait until it is ripe before picking it, but other people may pick it first, so in the end I decided to strike first!What I picked were only green and astringent fruits, so there was no good taste in my mouth, but why should I keep them?Or it's not really delicious, just get it in your hands, "I have it", just get such a short-term pleasure...

Similar situations also appeared in many towns.It's not all young children or teenagers who do such stupid things. I have seen with my own eyes the ugly behavior of individual adults insisting on removing persimmons hanging from high places in remote corners of the park.Needless to say, destroying public property is a shameful act. The problem is, knowing that even if you get the green fruit, it will not taste good or even cause problems if you eat it, but you still can't help the psychological impulse to pick the green fruit.It's not just children who are childish.Immature social behavior itself is young fruit that dies.

Picking green fruits is a despicable short-term behavior, which is harmful to others in society, and may not be beneficial to oneself.In the current period of social transformation, the behavior pattern of "picking green fruits" has appeared in many fields.Thinking about it, my heart is heavy. In this, is there any evil element in human nature at work?Excluding the cases of stealing fruits from productive orchards, and then excluding the cases of stealing fruits from other people’s private houses and yards, and also excluding the cases of stealing fruits from ornamental trees in parks, let’s just discuss those cases of stealing fruits from unowned trees. The behavior of the people who shake the trees that don't even bear sweet fruits, and the people who pick up the green fruits -- what are they trying to do, or they don't even know what they are looking for?

I also said to myself in the process of thinking to myself: How big is this?The fruit grows, is it for people to pick and eat, not to mention that even if the fruit on these wild trees is ripe, it may not be delicious. So, is it like a green pea that is pooed by people, or is it changing from green to red to yellow to purple? What difference does it make to be possessed again? I always think about it, and I always feel that there is still a difference. Once on a wild mountain in a scenic spot, I saw some tourists shaking the pear tree desperately, just to pick up some young pears that were still very green, and I felt very uncomfortable.I also tried to persuade them, but after they found out that I was not a manager, they taunted me severely.

In a town in the south of the Yangtze River, I once saw a thick and tall plum tree that looked like a big umbrella growing outside the wall of a certain temple. At that time, the plums were ripe, and the old tree was covered with purple plums. There were no traffickers who came and went to pick them, and some overripe plums fell to the ground automatically, smashed, and formed a ball of red paste... Facing the simple and comfortable scene, my heart was filled with great emotion, Great joy. I used to believe that "the most accurate indicator of the civilization of a place is the condition of its toilets", but I don't want to change this "belief", but just want to add: where people don't pick green fruits randomly, the overall civilization The degree must be high.