"On this day last year, in this gate, the faces of people and the peach blossoms reflected each other's red. I don't know where the faces are, but the peach blossoms still smile in the spring breeze." This is what Cui Hu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, said in Chang'an after he went to Chang'an to take the Jinshi examination and failed. A story about a beautiful girl who met by chance in the southern suburbs and made an appointment to meet again during the Qingming Festival next year but did not meet. The artistic conception expressed in this poem is very romantic, and of course it is also very poignant! If we use a modern language to sum it up, it would be better to meet by chance than to make an appointment.
Life is actually connected by chance encounters one after another. We came to this world and met in the same family by chance, so we became brothers and sisters with the same blood relationship. We come from all over the world and meet in the same school by chance, and we become close classmates; we meet by chance in the military camp and become comrades in life and death; we meet by chance in the workplace and we become colleagues who work together...
In the long course of life, we will also have countless appointments. We have made a promise to each other since we were young to "live up to wealth and honor, but never forget each other." However, the reality is that when many people become rich, they forget about the fact that they grew up naked together. When friends started a business, they made a promise to "share joys and sorrows." But often there is no problem with "suffering" in the early stage, but they cannot "share the joy" after the business is successful, so they have to part ways; lovers cannot be together in this life, but they meet to "become husband and wife in the next life". In fact, this is just a psychological saying Just words of comfort, do we really have an afterlife? Even if there is an afterlife, can we meet again in the next life? Why can't we grasp this life? All these cannot be listed one by one. It can be seen that meeting by chance is worse than meeting by chance!
Among all the chance encounters, apart from the chance encounters between family members, the most valuable ones are the chance encounters between classmates. Because of the chance encounter, we became classmates; because of purity and no conflict of interests, we are close. Inseparable; because of the closeness, it laid a solid foundation for our meeting!
We spend a quarter of our lives in school, so we meet different classmates in kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school, high school, university, and graduate school. In my opinion, the most commendable period is the high school and college years, when our minds gradually mature. In high school, we have the same goals, and in college, we form the same values, so When people reach middle age, the people they have the most contact with are their classmates from high school and college.
The years 2014 and 2015 are the two most memorable years for me. In 2014, my college classmates held a 20th graduation anniversary party in Beijing. I wrote in the invitation before the party: "The past is history, and the future is hope. Maybe many middle-aged people place their hopes on the next generation. In fact, The future also belongs to us. Come on, classmates, I look forward to meeting you and reliving the old dreams of yesterday; looking forward to us joining hands to create the future today!" 2015, high school classmates! After being separated for 26 years, we got together again. I said at the party: "Time is like a butcher's knife. It changes our appearance and smoothes our edges, but it makes the relationship between classmates last longer." Deeply." Although many classmates may have never met each other in more than 20 years, a promise between classmates can bring us together from all directions. This is a feeling that "can only be understood but cannot be expressed"!
Three weeks ago, a severe migraine broke out again. Even after two weeks of treatment in Beijing, it didn’t get better. Moreover, due to the severe smog in Beijing in winter, I felt irritable, so I wanted to change the environment and go to a warm place. Take some rest in Sanya. After contacting a high school classmate in Hainan, I bought a plane ticket and set off.
This classmate is the "goddess" in the hearts of the male classmates in our class. She was like a kite with its string cut off as soon as she graduated. She has not been in contact for more than 20 years. At the class reunion this year, she was still a classmate on the police front. She was found through "technical reconnaissance" means. She is still nurtured by the soil and water of Hainan. More than 20 years later, she still has the same charm, her smile is still as festive, her words are still as hearty, and her appearance is still as charming. Maybe it’s because I stayed in Hainan for a long time, but I found that she not only maintains the hot personality of Hunan people, but also has the advantages of Hainan people’s enthusiasm and unrestrainedness. Knowing that I was coming to Hainan, she not only picked me up at the airport, but also drove me to Sanya.
As the saying goes, "Nothing is accidental", but there was an even bigger surprise on the same day we arrived in Sanya! I "ran into" another high school classmate who works in Zhanjiang in Sanya. It is often difficult for us classmates who work in other places to meet up and go back to our hometown at the same time. To be able to meet again in Sanya this time made me sigh, "My hometown is very big and the world is so big." Very small".
I originally planned to go to Sanya in a low-key way to recuperate my health. Because of a chance encounter with a classmate, through the announcement in the WeChat group, students from all over the country knew about it and sent me greetings, which made me feel warm. ! Because of your attention and care, I feel much happier physically and mentally, and my migraines are getting better day by day.
Life is always ups and downs. Sometimes we think we have gone very far, only to find that we are just wandering in the same place when we look back. We may forget many things in life, but anecdotes from our school days are. It will always linger in your mind; the same goes for some people in your life. They are near and far away, and you always think it has nothing to do with it. But when you turn around, you can see that she is still behind you...
Thank you classmates! Thanks even more to the “goddess” classmates from Hainan! It’s great to have you all along the way!