Chapter 39 all smiles

In the year of college graduation, a girl in our class married a brother from the previous class. As two students from the Chinese Department, they were wearing formal dresses and riding an open car through the cold and windy streets of Dalian. Trembling, but still insisting on reading their favorite passage on the beach of Bangchui Island: "Come on, everything is fine; courage, I don't lack at all!" There were uneasy waves, and I was the guy next to me who couldn't stop laughing.Now that I'm bringing it up again, I'm not being sarcastic, at least not entirely.This thing is a bit outrageous, especially in today's view, but more importantly, it is part of the good times in their lives - the so-called good in the world is actually not necessarily good but just in time ?

On Douban.com, I joined the "Funny News Collection Group" and the "Tragedy News Collection Group". I found that the news on both sides is actually similar.I was able to laugh more and more at sadness, and at jokes more and more seriously.In the past, I would think that reading to the sea was a sign of brain cramps, but now I think, time flies, how much of our old life has been lost.Aging will make you less overvalued smartness than you used to be, enjoy less fun of ridicule and more empathy for others. I think we tell too many jokes, maybe life is so fast and everyone gets dizzy.Psychologists are quite right when they say that ridicule is a response to fear.Nowadays, on the Internet and at the dinner table, people laugh more than ever, but they are not more confident than before, right?

Zweig once said in "Yesterday's World" that when he told young people about the past before the First World War, he found: "How many things are still self-evident reality to me, but to me To them it has become history or inconceivable. But an instinct hidden in my heart makes me feel that their question is justified, because all bridges between our today and our yesterday and the day before yesterday have been demolished .” At least I agree with Zweig on this point: young people may not always be right, but even if they are wrong, they are always right.For today's Chinese life, "the bridge between today and yesterday and the day before yesterday" also no longer exists.We may easily think that we have been speeding on the highway of the market economy for so long, and the dirt roads of many years ago must have no scenery.We can also be content with our own maturity and stop valuing things like "innocence" and "belief."For example, in 1993, if I had known that years later I would be like this, walking around as a reporter, I would probably have killed myself.How could I endure such a mediocre life at that time?Don't forget, "I have no shortage of courage!" Today we may conclude that this kind of bravery is only funny and cute--young people always appear braver than grown-ups, just as small dogs always appear braver than grown-ups. It looks braver than a large dog, but pet experts say that is not brave, but excitable.Then what do we do?We taunt impulsive puppies.

We have grown-ups mocking young people, the present mocking the past, superiority mocking inferiority, and so on.Sometimes I feel like the whole country is laughing out loud, even though we're still pretty dull.In the past, wherever there was a well, there were Liuci, but now, wherever there is a web, there is a smiley face.There are those who can make ridicule an art, but among us there are too few professionals and too many amateurs.So on the one hand I quite enjoy watching one or two people being funny, and on the other hand I am troubled by the idiot laughing everywhere. Especially obnoxious is the stereotypical laughter of the adults.There was once a short video that was all the rage on YOUTOBE website. The content was about a baby boy who couldn’t stop giggling for some reason. Laughed a lot.I like this kind of laughter, it is just because it is funny, without any prejudice.The laughter of adults is not so simple. If the connotation is enriched, it will really make people feel lifeless.In today's world, there seems to be nothing that we haven't ridiculed, but how many of them have been screened?

I had a lot of laughs myself, and most of them were boring, but I liked the one in Tokyo.At that time, an official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan invited us to have a kaiseki meal at their house in Sanjiakuan, which tasted very good, and then took us to visit Hideki Tojo’s cemetery on the way, and wanted us to experience the Japanese culture of forgiving the dead. Tradition.In front of the tomb, he said something superfluous: "Please don't insult the cemetery of the dead." I suddenly thought of myself peeing on the tombstone of Hideki Tojo's house, so I laughed secretly.This smile came from childhood, as unstoppable as seeing the headmaster fall.It was silent and yet so violent that turbulence over Tokyo made it difficult for birds to fly.