Chapter 8 Rose Island (8)

5. Dangerous beauty On the boat bound for Phnom Penh, a New Zealand girl fell ill. She comes with her boyfriend.Bring your bike.Cycling around Vietnam and then heading to Cambodia.Because of fatigue and illness, I took a boat instead.The weather continues to be hot.With flushed cheeks, she was lying on the long chair in the cabin. There were about 6 of us and most of the seats on the boat were empty.Two old English ladies once taught in universities in Beijing. Long distance travel, especially in impoverished tropical countries, does require a lot of patience.exhausted.Heat, heat, sickness, sweat, rough road conditions, stuffy cars, stomachaches, dizziness, jolts, inflammation, sunburn, sleepless nights.But the backpackers I saw on the road have always been silent, without complaining, and never doing anything to disturb others.

Gradually, the scenery along the coast is endless: large cornfields shining in the sun, the rushing water of the Mekong River, dense coconut groves, lotus flowers in mud ponds, grass sheds, mango trees, and dogs drinking water on the shore.The scorching open sky.Burning fields... Life is to move forward with such infinitely rich and infinitely broad possibilities. Some worked hard, saved enough money for travel, quit their jobs, packed their bags and started walking.Some people have never stepped out of their cities, and are satisfied with the status quo and surface of life, comfort and stability, which can make them feel safe.

Everyone has the right to choose their own way of life.But in other words, people are imprisoned and have never been given the right to decide their own lives. For people living in remote villages, they have never escaped poverty, but they are close to nature.They work in the heat and roost under big trees.If you see the children, men and women playing in the river at dusk, the simple abundance of happiness on their faces, you will know that this river for irrigating crops, drinking and bathing is Their lives. And others, who live in the cities, have so-called classes and noble professions.But many people's lives are dull because of single-mindedness.They are blindly manipulated by their own desires and ambitions.Trying to prove it with vanity and materialism, and fill your own emptiness.They spend a lot of money at banquets or bars, and seek fun in parties and commercial entertainment.They avoid thinking and being alone.Never look for your true aspirations.

They lose that so-called dangerous beauty. The dangerous beauty is doomed to a chasing method similar to nothingness.This is a passion that has nothing to do with the ending.Keep walking.While walking, let the beauty and time pass by the soul.It seems to be walking in the wind.Knowing nothing, but the heart has pride. I've always liked Gale.I like the howling of the strong wind, and I can't hear my breath when I face the wind.Beijing is a city that is often blown by strong winds.But in my hometown, along the southern coast, there are typhoons. Many times, a person chooses to walk, not because of desire or temptation.He just heard his own inner voice.

What a price we have paid to live by our inner voice.