Sometimes people say how good the crew are, how high their wages are, and how much they earn in a month, which is more than their annual wages on land, hundreds of thousands a year. They are envious and envious, as if a big pie fell from the sky and fell on us sailors.
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I want to ask, in this increasingly competitive society, is it really that easy to earn that money? The answer is of course cruel. No, there is no such thing as a free lunch. Although we seafarers earn a lot of money, we all work hard to earn it with our own hands. Every penny of our sailors is bought with two-thirds of the waves. In this cruel world, what you get is always in direct proportion to what you pay.
The road we sailors walked is wet because it is full of our sweat and tears. You only saw the glory of our return to our hometown, but you didn't see the embarrassing appearance of us wearing work clothes on the boat. You only saw the salary paid to us, but you didn't see us bow our heads and sweep the cabin in the scorching sun for that salary, sweating and rusting on the deck at 40-50 degrees, washing the deck in the howling sea breeze and freezing at the bow. I was drenched by the waves all over. I didn't see the decadent appearance of us getting up in the middle of the night and opening and closing the cabin with red eyes. When we approached and left the port, I didn't see the rush of the bow and stern ... If you can experience the life of our seafarers for yourself, you may think that our seafarers' wages are actually pitiful.
I just want to say that in fact, we seafarers are not iron men, and sometimes we need to rest, but many times the schedule does not allow us to stop and rest. Sitting there for a while is already a great happiness, let alone going back to sleep. Many times we will work for dozens of hours without sleep, and our eyes are swollen like two bells. Due to poor sleep for a long time, almost 90% of seafarers have black eyes all year round.
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You only see the harvest of our seafarers, but who can see the pay of our seafarers, who can see the happiness and pain of our seafarers, who can understand the sadness of our seafarers, and how many people will know the helplessness of seafarers!
People are originally a group living on land, but we sailors have to wander out to sea, wander, wander away from home, for work, for life, for faith in our hearts, for the promise we made to that girl. Wherever we go, we are no different from vagrants.
Think of a man who has lived on land for more than 20 years and suddenly goes to work at sea and goes with the flow. That kind of unaccustomed, unaccustomed is unimaginable for ordinary people! Sometimes you get carsick when you ride on land. I think most people will understand the feeling of motion sickness, but what about it? Only we sailors know! As the saying goes: "seasickness is not a disease, fainting is fatal."
You've never seen an energetic and energetic person get seasick and vomit at sea, but he looks like a sick cat! Even if you are seasick and dizzy, it is always worthwhile to change shifts. Anyway, it's hard to steer on the bridge and vomit while steering in a big storm.
Even after a long time, I gradually get used to that feeling. I don't feel seasick after exercise, but sailing at sea for a few days or even dozens of days is also uncomfortable. The bed on the ship is like a flat box without a cover, surrounded by wooden strips, but sometimes the whole body will be thrown from the bed to the ground when the wind and waves are heavy.
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For sailors, every gale is a battle. After every gale, the deck, cab and crew room are as dirty as the villages swept by the Japanese army.
Judging from the billions of people in the world, we seafarers are indeed a numerically disadvantaged group, with only a few million seafarers in the world. However, despite our small number, our seamen's world accounts for three quarters of the world. So I am proud to be a sailor!
People on land may often complain about how unsatisfactory their work is, how tired and boring it is. But if you stay away from the bustling and noisy society and devote yourself to being a sailor, you will spend most of the year on the boat, eating and living on the boat, facing the sea all day, talking to the sea and sharing your feelings with the sea, then you will know how fulfilling it is to work on land. Although you are tired, you live a wonderful life.
On the ship, except loneliness, all that remains is endless loneliness. Long day, long night, long voyage, long wait, long expectation. We sailors are ordinary people, too. We don't have a heart of stone, and we don't want home. We also have our own feelings. My parents in my hometown are gray-haired and old. Parents exchanged blood and tears for our growth from ignorance to maturity. Every time we think of their bodies bent by fatigue and the wrinkles on their faces caused by wind and sun, we feel distressed. We want to be with their parents, honor them and be with them.
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However, we can't. Just because we are sailors, many things are beyond our control. We sailors often dream of going home, to our parents who care about us day and night, and to our long-lost homes. Even when we dream, we sometimes laugh. Just because we are sailors, we can only wander outside and let our parents worry about us all day at this age.
Every time I call their parents, they often can't hide their inner excitement and keep asking questions. They always say, "son! We don't want you to bring many expensive things back. As long as the bodhisattva bless you, you can go out safely and be with your girl. As long as you live well, we are very satisfied and happy! " Whenever I hear this, my nose will be sour and tears will always fall down unwillingly. To tell the truth, what we seafarers regret most in this life is our parents who have worked hard for us all their lives.
Love is a luxury for us sailors. In fact, it's really not easy for us sailors. Because of long-term wandering, many seafarers' emotional life is not very happy. If we are lucky enough to have a relationship, a beloved relationship, we will know how to cherish this relationship better, we will have a greater sense of responsibility, and we will work harder to manage our hard-won love, because we know that love is precious to us.
In fact, we seafarers have a strong sense of family, and sometimes we want to give her a name and give ourselves a stable home. So we chose to wander for a long time, in order to realize our promise to her and make her happy as soon as possible. For seafarers who lead a boring life on board, we will miss the little things with her more.
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Whenever the dead of night, we will also think of her in our hearts, and we will always be worried about her in the distance. We don't know whether she is happy on land, whether she is happy, whether she works and sleeps on time, whether she eats on time, whether she is wronged ... At this time, we often only think of her goodness, and our hearts are always full of happiness, feeling that no matter how hard she works, it is worthwhile. In fact, we sailors don't want to stay with her beloved, take care of her, care for her, love her, protect her and make her happy ... Really, I miss it, I miss it ... Because we don't have time to stay with her often, we often feel sorry for her, so we will try our best to make up for it whenever there is an opportunity. When the cell phone has a signal, she is the first to think of it, when the wind blows. When the temperature drops, my first thought is of her. When it rains, her is my first thought. When I meet something happy, my first thought is her ... Every time I call, I have a lot to say to her, but the phone is often cold. What a sincere love, what a sincere miss, but it seems so pale and powerless when expressed on the phone. In fact, from the first day on the boat, we have already started to calculate when we can go back and reunite with our girl. We have begun a long wait.
In fact, we sailors really care about the person who treats us. She is really sincere and selfish. Sometimes we are afraid ... so if you are lucky enough to have a sailor boyfriend, please cherish your feelings and treat him well.
Sometimes even a phone call, a text message, or a word of concern from you will make him happy for a long time. Please believe that if you treat him well, they will get 10% and 10% in return.
In fact, as a sailor, I just want to say that our crew is the simplest group of people, working on the ship, without intrigue and flattery on land. The living environment of seafarers is the only unpolluted environment in the world. Without the noise on the land, avoiding the fame and fortune of the society, without those intrigues, the rest are the most real feelings. We sailors only treat our friends with the purest heart.
Therefore, it is true that all sailors are brothers. Sailing in the long night, TV has no signal, computer has no signal, mobile phone has no signal, only high frequency accompanies us. The high-frequency phrase "Brother, your foremast is not bright", "Brother, bon voyage", "Listen to a song of Nanhai Song God" and "To tell the truth, I miss home" ... Every sentence will let us know that we sailors are not alone, and there are many sailors accompanying us. "We are in the same boat", this sentence shows the friendship between the sailors and brothers behind us, that is, if there are any difficulties on board, the brothers will carry them for you, and if there are any happy things, the brothers will share their happiness with you. But seafarers' families are all on land, so we seafarers have no choice at this time. Worldly, others create relationships in all directions like cobwebs on land and are invincible. Sailors also show their incompetence in this respect. In this desperate society, it is especially difficult for seafarers to run family affairs. Therefore, seafarers will try their best to make money, save it well, spend only a few hundred dollars a month, and try their best to bring back all the money they earn, so that their families will not run into a wall everywhere because they have nothing to do. In fact, our seafarers' requirements are not high, and we only hope that through our own efforts, our parents and ourselves can live a better life.
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However, for a newcomer like me who has just stepped into this road, since I have chosen this, I must work hard to stick to it. Although the present stage is very difficult, we must stick to it. Have you forgotten our great dream when we first entered the campus and our promise to make her happy? Think about the days when you stayed up late at school to prepare for the big certificate, the thrilling experience of rowing at the seaside when you were training the small certificate, the harsh and critical eyes of every evaluator, and the happy and excited mood when you passed the exam every time. Think about you practicing tightrope walking, tying knots and throwing cables in hot summer ... you are covered in smelly sweat ... I don't think you want to waste your efforts or your sweat! Brothers, so we all have to refuel. As long as I persist, I think I will realize my value one day. On that day, we will also let our families, our girls, live a happy life.
A thousand words can only be turned into a simple blessing, saying "Brothers, smooth sailing" to all seafarers' brothers and saying "You have worked hard, thank you for your silent support behind your back" to all seafarers' parents and seafarers. This is a sailor, an extraordinary, bitter and sacred profession in the ordinary. Finally, I wish all sailors and brothers a happy family forever!
-Gold is dedicated to all the sailors and brothers, and all the sea sisters. Hope understanding