After the short circuit, I saw the scenery that I couldn't see in my ordinary life and felt the warmth and coldness of human feelings. I went through everything alone and came back to reality. What can I share with you?
Afraid of the passage of time and the story being forgotten, I always want to keep everything with photos and words. The first time I rode, I kept records all the way, not a log, just writing down bit by bit, writing down the bumpy truck and waiting for every scribble on the road. Looking back on those words now, some of them can still be restored for an instant. This is how words are handed down.
I also want to write travel notes.
There are basically two kinds of travel books, one is travel notes, the other is raiders, and the latter is more popular. In this era of pragmatism, people are more willing to buy a book to get what they need, and the travel guide is such a practical thing. Travel notes are what travelers see and feel, not words, but photos. Your feeling when you see the snow-capped mountains must be different from mine, or your story is really attractive, otherwise no one will have the patience to listen to your story. Travel notes are telling their own travel stories.
When I hitchhiked in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, I was going to come back and write a travel diary. During the trip, I will regularly record my daily experiences and feelings, and every moment that I may forget in the next second will be recorded in my notebook. It took me eight days to write eight 40,000-word travel diaries after I came back. When I don't have enough ability to attract others' attention, I am naturally willing to bear loneliness. Forty thousand words, written with great care and hard work. Be yourself even if you are lonely. Perfection is to not be lonely next time.
Travel is not an experience, but an experience. Many people have been to the places I have traveled, and every photo I have taken is always better than mine. The only thing unique is my feeling. Travel notes are not about introducing the scenery along the way, but more about the feelings you see along the way, which is your own mental journey.
I finished Tucki's Ten Years of Backpacking the other day, which is a very famous work in the circle of donkey friends. Although backpacking for ten years is classified as travel notes, I feel more like a collection of essays. Tucki left a few dots on several continents, and his sight reached an angle that most of us couldn't reach. There are no pictures in the text of his book. A city or even a country, in his description, is just a few pages in the book. Short and pithy words may be just a tiny moving moment, not about natural scenery or humanistic feelings. Just an artist playing in the square, just the silhouette of a hungry celebrity in this city. In Tucki's tourism world, what you see is not the most important, but what you feel is the most important.
I envy Tucki, not because he has been to all the places in the world, but because he can express all his inner thoughts in simple language.
Ningxia travel diary was also written a few days ago. While describing the scenery, I described many of my feelings and thoughts, some of which were almost extreme. I showed my inner thoughts when describing what I saw. It doesn't matter whether I am extreme or not, because my thoughts are innocent.
Prose is probably the most test of writing skills except poetry. What can be compared with it? People who can write prose-like travel notes are naturally worthy of admiration.
We admire a person, to a great extent, actually admire his heart and thoughts. This is a unique and sharp list, and others can have deeper insights and connect them with more specific reality. No admirable action or experience is supported by a powerful spiritual world. We will appreciate his behavior, but it is actually a compliment to his spirit and thought.
Traveling is a very literary thing, but writing seems to be more literary. Traveling abroad can skillfully adapt to the new environment and solve all problems in practice. Even if you return to ordinary life, your heart will not be mediocre. You can condense what you see and feel in paragraphs, which is a record of travel, a sharing, a memory and a wonderful time worth cherishing.
I am eager for my pen to shed gorgeous words, and I am eager to write prose-like travel notes. Compared with more people, my experience is just too little for people to stop, so I chose simple words, not the feeling of a distant journey, the unique feeling and understanding of what I saw, or the story behind the journey except the scenery. If the heart is strong enough and the spiritual world is rich enough, even if you travel close to home, you can have a detached view, plus gorgeous writing, which is the best travel notes.
There are many ways to realize literature and art. Perhaps writing is the simplest and most economical way to realize literature and art. Reading is a wonderful thing. Reading countless words and shaping your own spiritual world is the most economical way to write your own story. Ideal may not be a very expensive thing.
I like listening to music in Douban. In the radio mode of Douban, a favorite song can only be heard once, and then it will switch and disappear at will. If you really like it, you can share it in Weibo, leave a link and listen to it later. Every time I share Weibo, I always want to make some friends with Aite, and I am always willing to share my favorite things with others. The same is true of the gains from travel. We are always willing to share what we think is beautiful with people we care about, and what we bring to ourselves should also be brought to others.
Words are too precious. We are willing to upload piles of photos on social networks, but we can't settle down to complete a complete travel note, and we don't even have the patience to add some text descriptions at the bottom of the photos. This is a common problem in this era, not caused by one or two people. When the unreasonable flood of the times strikes, people who are eager for inner wealth should bravely stand up and resist all these changes. What kind of person we want to be and what kind of unique life we want to live, we should make corresponding unique actions when most people are silent, and make our own efforts for the inner enrichment and yearning future.
Travel notes are my own stories. When I feel that everything I have experienced is meaningful, I am eager for more people to pay attention to it, but all this can only be an expectation. I am the only reader in every moment when words are silent. When those words are not as beautiful as prose, I can only ask myself to write better words instead of asking others to stop. Before one thing is not done well enough, all loneliness should be borne by oneself, wait quietly, wait for the arrival of that day, and before that day comes, accept loneliness and try to do better.
My travel, my travel notes, my loneliness, my future.