&There is a strawberry on the other side of the fence/I know/If I want/I can climb over/Strawberry, so sweet/But if I dirty my apron/God will definitely scold me/Oh, my dear /I guess/if he had been a child/he would have crawled too/if/he could have crawled over. When reading this little poem by Dickinson, I am always in awe of the image of the child in the text. His innocence and purity make all authority seem insignificant, and his bravery and persistence make worldly hypocrisy flinch.
When people are born in the world, it is often difficult to escape the world. From the time a person is born until he grows up, the power of the world has been polishing his soul. How many people, after painful struggles, always choose to surrender to the world and reality. As a result, they learned to weigh the pros and cons and learn to look forward and backward. They begin to hide their emotions and control their pursuits. As a result, they go further and further away from truth, goodness and beauty on the road of life.
Secular concepts and rules are like the fence in poetry. It confines people within its scope and does not allow people to cross it. However, the good nature of human beings always makes us yearn for beautiful things. At this time, the ideal is like a ruddy strawberry, full of temptation, but it grows outside the fence. The fence blocks the way. Whether a person can taste the strawberries in his heart depends on whether he has the courage to cross the fence in front of him and whether he is willing to pay the price for the strawberries in his heart.
And this courage can only come from a childlike innocence that is carefree, worry-free, and simple.
Copernicus was such a person. Before him, the religious "geocentric theory" had long dominated people's thinking, and people had no doubt that the earth was the center of the universe. However, Copernicus did not have superstitious worldly concepts. He explored the mysteries of the universe with a childlike innocence full of curiosity and knowledge, and discovered that the sun exists as a center in the universe, and the earth revolves around the sun. In his heart, truth is like a strawberry, full of temptation, and he keeps moving forward for the strawberry in his heart. Of course, the secular power would not let him go, and he was hit mercilessly, but like a naughty child, he stubbornly walked towards his red strawberry and never gave up. The "heliocentric theory" he founded shattered the secular "fence".
Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai are such people. In their hearts, true love is higher than all worldly interests. For the sake of love, they were not afraid of the power and violence of feudal forces, broke through the shackles of feudal dogma, and in the end, even died to defend love. In the eyes of some secular people, they may be relatively stupid, but their childlike innocence and persistence interpret love vividly.
We are often moved by the fearlessness of those who break through the "fence", but when facing the secular "fence", do we have the courage to take a step toward the "strawberry" in our hearts? ?
In today's society, the highly developed economy provides a breeding ground for more decadent ideas. Worldly concepts such as money is everything and instant gratification have become dogma that many people believe in. Dedicate yourself to the truth, work hard for knowledge, run for peace, and fight for justice. People do not understand you when you do these things. When you offend the interests of some people, you will receive various blows.
In fact, it is better to pursue your dreams with a simple childlike innocence. Because without climbing over the long "fence", we will never be able to taste the taste of "strawberry" in our lives.