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Chapter 60 wild geese not flying south

full moon 林清玄 671Words 2018-03-18
In Vancouver, Canada, my friend took me to a park by the sea to watch wild geese. The size of the wild goose was beyond my expectation, about four times the size of the white goose.So many huge geese gathered together, the scene shocked me very much. My friend bought some biscuits, potato chips, and omnivores, and prepared to feed the wild geese on the grass. The wild geese immediately stood up and surrounded us.Those wild geese seem to be spiritual, crowing and begging us for food. Throwing the biscuits into the air, my friend said: "Before the end of summer, the wild geese were ready to fly south. They would shelter from the cold in the south, and they would not fly back until the spring of the following year. However, the wild geese here have long gone Fly."

Why do wild geese no longer fly south? A friend told me that people have been feeding wild geese by the sea since I don't know when. At first, there were only two or three wild geese, but now there are hundreds of wild geese, and the number is still increasing.In winter, they hide in buildings to avoid the cold, and when someone feeds them, they fly out to eat, and the winter passes like that. My friend sighed and said: "One day, all the geese in Vancouver will stop flying south, and the migratory birds will become resident birds. After a few generations, the offspring of the geese will lose the ability to fly long distances. I don’t even know about Nanfei at all.”

I grabbed a handful of potato chips and threw them in the air, and the wild geese came to snatch them.I have mixed feelings in my heart. Is it right or wrong for us to feed wild geese like this?It is really disturbing if the geese cannot fly and stop flying south for the sake of temporary entertainment. A friend who has immigrated to Canada for 17 years said that his situation is very similar to that of wild geese, and he is afraid that his descendants will not know about the flight to the south. Therefore, he often brings his children to feed the wild geese and let them know that although Vancouver is good, it will eventually come to an end. Not our hometown.

"what about your child?" "Now I'm attending a summer camp at Fo Guang Shan in Kaohsiung!" My friend smiled happily. We finished feeding, and when we walked back, the wild geese followed closely all the way until we got to the side of the car, and the wild geese reluctantly left. Apart from their huge size, the wild geese that don’t fly south are any different from the pigeons on the square?I was thinking about it all the way.
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