What kind of house did you live in when you were a kid? Please describe in detail what it looks like and its surrounding environment, as if I could see it.
I grew up in a big city in northern China, when my family lived in a red brick apartment building. The apartment building has five floors. My family lives on the first floor, so we have a small courtyard. My father installed a small swing for me in the yard. In summer, my mother will plant some flowers and a few tomatoes in the yard. There are three bedrooms in my house, and the windows all face south or north. Another apartment building can be seen from the south-facing window, and the small park of our community can be seen from the north window.
Please tell me a stressful/horrible moment you/your friend/your family experienced.
When I was traveling in Taiwan, I visited the Plum Garden of Tsinghua University. It was summer vacation, and I was the only one in Meiyuan in the morning. When I saw the famous plum pavilion, I naturally wanted to take pictures. But I discovered that the marble tables and chairs in Mei Ting were occupied by two dogs. The dog probably also thinks that Mei Ting is a good place to take a break from the summer heat, but the problem is that the dog owner is nowhere to be seen. When the two dogs saw me raising the camera to face them, they stood up vigilantly and let out a low growl. I hesitated for a while, but still clicked the camera button. But I forgot to mute the camera, and only heard a click. The two dogs rushed towards me like they heard the command. I was very nervous, because those two dogs were coming aggressively, and I was thinly dressed and had no protection. Wouldn't it be terrible to bite the evil dog! At the moment, I thought of the dog trainer's countermeasures that I had seen in the book before, so I stayed on the spot, with my body slightly to my side, and the whole body relaxed, thinking "I am their master, they have to listen to me." , And then reprimanded them as calmly as possible: "Where is your master?" At this time, the two dogs had rushed in front of me. As soon as I finished speaking, they actually stopped there, whimpered to me a few times, turned their heads and ran back to Mei Ting. I secretly breathed a sigh of relief. I didn't expect that the method I learned from the book would really work, and it was a surprise.
People nowadays like to travel. In addition to travel for practical purposes, travel itself has also become a fashion. Why do you think people travel? What is the meaning of travel to people's lives?
The ancients said, reading thousands of books, travel thousands of miles. It means that travel is as important as reading. Travel is a kind of learning. It makes up for the lack of learning through books based on understanding and imagination. It allows us to enter unfamiliar regions and environments and learn about different cultures and lives. Travel is more of an experience, but also a kind of self-discovery and self-growth. When we walked out of the house, to see the beauty of the world, the vastness of mountains and rivers, to see the world, to read all kinds of people, etc., while we understand the world, we also position ourselves. In the era of rapid technological development, perhaps we have really achieved "a talented person knows the world without going out." Virtual reality technology may one day allow us to vividly experience the world in various forms without leaving home. However, I believe that travel is still an irreplaceable life experience. Its most important meaning is to allow us to walk out of our familiar comfort zone, truly defamiliarize our environment, and obtain a new and vivid experience. Only by walking on the road and letting our bodies traverse the thousands of mountains and rivers, the streets and alleys, can we reap the pride of "the blue sea and the dark blue sky", the vision of "seeing all beings, seeing the world", and taste and help each other with donkey friends. The warmth, the surprise of colliding with strange souls. In a nutshell, the true meaning of travel is—as Milan Kundera’s famous saying—“live elsewhere”.