Life is not just the present, but also poetry and distance.
In this materialistic age, reading poems or books seems to be a luxury. We are used to tasting chicken soup for the soul online and pursuing yearning in the circle of friends. We complain about life in Weibo, but we refuse to put down our mobile phones and look at the distance in the poem.
Gao Zeng said: "If you can't set foot in the distance, then study poetry, and poetry is your distance."
Most of us don't have the opportunity to appreciate the beauty of leisure and nature, and we don't have the opportunity to be a casual person who does nothing and enjoys the scenery with all his heart, but we can imagine the mood in "Brewing Wine in Pine Flowers, Making Tea in Spring";
Most of us don't have a chance to enjoy the sunset scenery under the bleak autumn wind, and we don't have a chance to appreciate the taste of people in the water towns and lanes in the south of the Yangtze River, but we can appreciate the sadness of "the old vines are faint crows, the bridges are flowing, and the old roads are thin";
Most of us have no chance to enjoy the loneliness and silence of the snow-capped mountains. We don't have a chance to enjoy the elegance surrounded by mountains and rivers, but we can feel the loneliness of "a boat with a leaf and a bamboo coat, an old man fishing in the cold river-snow"
The pace of life is so fast now that we almost forget it. When was the last time we read a book and a poem? Once upon a time, poetry was not far away, but everyday. But those days of study were forgotten by us in time and gone forever.
Perhaps the thing we hate most is reciting poems. But in fact, the poems selected into the textbook are all classics and rare masterpieces. Read it carefully several times, and you will be moved by these words, because they are all treasures that have been baptized by years and erased by history. If one day, you really go to the distant place you yearned for before, in the face of this situation, the beautiful scenery of "autumn water * * * sky and one color" comes to mind instead of "Wow, this scenery is really beautiful"; If one day, you really suffer the blow of life and emotional frustration, you will appreciate and understand Liu's "holding your hand, growing old with your son, and being speechless", and you will also feel the helplessness of "who to talk to despite thousands of amorous feelings", instead of getting drunk in the middle of the night and being melodramatic in the middle of the night.
One day, we will all understand that there is a dream only when there is poetry, and there is a dream only when there is a distance.
One day we will understand that it is poetry that embellishes our dreams, and it is poetry that decorates our windows.
One day, we will all understand that you and sadness are not only the whole of life, but also dreams and distances, which are unspeakable.
Read more books, read more poems, take a break in the floating life, drink it off, have a great dream, and there are new distant places waiting for us to explore tomorrow.
So, teenager,
May you take poetry as a horse and walk alone in the world.