Chapter 66 Time changes unknowingly

The thing that impressed me the most this year was of course the Wenchuan Earthquake. I went to Beichuan for interviews and walked along the Yulong Main Road from the old city to the new city. The strong smell of corpses made me feel like I was walking behind heavy curtains.In the past, I heard from my colleagues what they saw after the tsunami in Southeast Asia. They said that the bodies were all placed on the beach, and it was hopeless.This time I also felt it.Beichuan County is actually a valley. At that time, the sun was scorching, and there were boulders rolling everywhere. We privately said that they were some "rocks as big as Ohio".

At that time, the editorial department of "Southern Weekend" forced the reporter to enter Wenchuan on foot. In the middle of the night after the earthquake, reporter Cao Yunwu complained to me on MSN that it was impossible.What impressed me deeply was that he said: "That mountain is so big!" Later they took a helicopter to Wenchuan, and the return journey was also full of difficulties and dangers. I was very confused.When I was a child, my mother told stories that when an elephant died, other elephants would surround it and mourn for a long time.It was the fear of an elephant that I experienced.How did you ever imagine that you would be in the midst of such a huge tragedy in your lifetime?In Beichuan, almost every minute you see what people usually call "an unforgettable scene".I had no choice but to remind myself, "Be sober, you just need to do the same as you used to report on disasters." This is why the reports of "Southern Weekend", including myself, were not "ignored".We just want to report the real disaster and rescue scene.In a later summary article, I said that I am a reporter, and of course I can only help people in my professional way.

At that time, many of my friends watched TV and washed their faces with tears, and went to donate after crying; some friends were tired of moral fanaticism and ran out to find their own peaceful world.The latter kind of people were afraid to share their lives in public at the time.In a romantic sense, I've been to the "front," so let me be honest: I think each of them is doing the right thing. On the day of the German invasion, Kafka only recorded in his diary small things like shopping and swimming.This is his right.Russell has a famous saying: "Variability is the source of happiness." The next sentence is rarely known, "But this is not seen in Utopia." A good society has its own tolerance, and a bad society has its own tolerance. Society has only one judgment.I am willing to go to the scene of a disaster, but I don't like any unitary values, and I don't like the world where the great "goodness" oppresses the small "self".

One night, I was at the Kyushu Gymnasium in Mianyang City.In order to let the children celebrate Children's Day, a movie was playing outside the gymnasium. Jackie Chan jumped up and down on the car, causing an explosion, and a building collapsed.Adults and children are attracted to movies, and my first thought is, what's in it for them?They had just seen a more thrilling scene a few days ago.But if you were there, you would understand the logic.They just need a little entertainment.They may have lost their father, their mother, or their child, but what they need is to let the light and shadow on the curtain float on their faces on a hot night.

I feel that I am one with them.Sometimes you feel that there is a relationship between things, but you can't explain why there is a relationship.When I was in college I read Dylan Thomas: The force that drives the flower through the green stem / Also drives my green years, and the force that kills the roots / Is also my destroyer.In a way, the earthquake destroyed a part of me too.You can't tell exactly what's changed in you, but you're going to be very, very disturbed when you think back to what happened during the earthquake. The end of the year is approaching in a blink of an eye, the prosperity of the Olympic Games has dissipated, and the shadow of the economic crisis is getting heavier day by day. People seem to have largely forgotten about the earthquake.I'm quite surprised that people are surprised by the arrival of the economic crisis. In my opinion, this is a thing that has many symptoms.The fundamentals of the Chinese economy have always been problematic.I'm interested in going back to the past, so I found in history that in China, people's reactions always seem to lag behind the world in which they live.Speculate on the level of common sense, why do people not perceive the changes in the world?One reason may be sleep or drunkenness, another reason may be routine and insensitivity.

This reminds me of a sentence by Song Qi: You don't know how time changes.How to make people stop being unaware?I guess that's about exposing them to a real world.That's why when I think back to 2008, the first thing I think about is the good earthquake coverage because of its authenticity.If there is no desire for truth and no tolerance for "others", we will be overwhelmed by the mediocre daily life, and we will gradually grow old without knowing it.