"Take your time and enjoy it!"

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Allen? There is a passage in De Botton's The Art of Travel: "Field trip is different from what we expect of it. Expect to omit, compress or even cut off the boring time in life, and lead our attention to the good times in life, without retouching or faking. Therefore, it shows a vivid and orderly life. This charm and order cannot be presented in our troubled real life. "

This reminds me of a travel experience in Guilin a few years ago.

Visiting Lijiang River is the preset climax of Guilin trip.

Before, I made all kinds of ideas. If the weather is clear, the peaks on both sides of the strait are distinct, bamboo forests are swaying, and the river is sparkling; If it rains, the river is misty and rainy, the green hills are shrouded in clouds, and the bamboo forests on both sides are graceful and green. In a word, the trip to Lijiang River, known as "Hundred Miles Lijiang River, Hundred Miles Gallery", will be beautiful, rain or shine. The idea lasted until the moment I boarded the cruise ship.

It was neither sunny nor rainy that day. The weather is overcast and the sky is gray. There is neither misty rain nor beautiful scenery on both sides of the Lijiang River. The river in front of us is green, and the mountain scenery in the distance is gloomy. This situation, as Allen said, "field trip is different from what we expect of it." However, the Lijiang Baili Gallery is well-deserved, with green peaks, swaying bamboo forests and lingering clear water. Even on this gray day, the water journey from Guilin to Yangshuo is still picturesque.

It is said that the benevolent Leshan, the wise enjoy water, I like the softness of water, but also moved by the goodness of the mountain. The mountain that has stood silently for hundreds of millions of years always gives me a feeling of incomparable warmth. The cruise ship walked along the Lijiang River for four hours. Except for lunch time, I always stand on the deck and watch the scenery on both sides of the strait. Like most tourists, at first I was rushing to take pictures of the scenery. Almost halfway, some of my companions began to feel "aesthetic fatigue" and returned to the cabin one after another. I found a warm current surging in my heart, and I was in a trance by the boat for a while. I see, this is where the mountains on both sides of the Taiwan Strait move me. Facing the towering mountains, I suddenly feel tender as water.

This feeling is somewhat inexplicable and abrupt.

I thought of Turgenev's prose poem Dialogue.

Two famous peaks in the Alps-Black Eagle Peak and Jungfrau Peak, two behemoths, a dialogue between two giants.

Between questions, thousands of years have passed, just for a moment.

Another thousand years have passed in a blink of an eye, just for a moment.

Between questions and answers, Dashan saw people crawling like bugs and saw all kinds of thin and small things changing. Billions of years have passed between the pitching of two mountains.

So do the peaks on both sides of the Lijiang River. For hundreds of millions of years, they silently watched the vicissitudes of the world. So today, at this moment, what do they think of us "bugs" standing on the cruise ship to pay tribute?

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The scenery in Guilin is undoubtedly beautiful, because mountains and water complement each other perfectly. With the loyal company and protection of the mountain, the water is more charming and tender; With the entanglement of water, the mountain is more loyal and affectionate. It's like the dependence of men and women in the world.

Ordinary days are too hasty to allow people to think about something. At this moment, four hours, putting aside all worldly and all fetters, is a luxury and a kind of happiness.

From Guilin to Yangshuo, it took only 1 month and a half hours by land, but it took us four hours by water. How luxurious and happy. Colleague Xiao Li didn't understand the performance of my colleague Sister Z along the way and said, "You two people in your forties seem to be in their twenties, while I am only in my twenties and fifties." This is not entirely a matter of mentality, but a difference in lifestyle caused by different ideas about life and tourism. I pay attention to the process, and Xiao Li pays attention to the purpose. For the same four hours, I was experiencing, tasting and enjoying luxury. Until many years later, I still have an endless aftertaste. Xiao Li is more likely to wait, waiting to reach his destination in Yangshuo.

In fact, life is the same. People always go forward in the pursuit of happiness ahead, but turn a blind eye to the little happiness in the journey of life. Happiness in the distance is confused, flickering and always out of reach, but happiness in the distance is tangible, depending on whether you feel, taste and enjoy it.

The last article of Mr. Zhu Guangqian's Talking about Beauty, Walk Slowly and Enjoy Slowly! The article "The Art of Living" writes that there is a cart road in the Alps valley with beautiful scenery on both sides. There are placards on the road, urging tourists to say, "Take your time and enjoy it!" In this regard, Mr. Zhu Guangqian wrote: "Many people live in a world like Ma Rulong, where cars flow like water, just like taking a ride in the Alps valley, rushing by and having no time to look back at the scenery, so this rich and gorgeous world has become a lifeless prison. What a pity! "

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When the word "Wei" is interpreted as a verb, there is taste and flavor in the interpretation of Modern Chinese Dictionary. Understand, ponder, etc carefully. Martin seligman, the founder of positive psychology, gave it a new meaning in the book True Happiness.

Seligman believes that people's positive emotions can be linked with the past, present and future. Among them, the positive emotions about the present include joy, ecstasy, calmness, enthusiasm and pleasure, which are commonly used when people talk about happiness. When talking about how to increase the fun of life, he talked about the word "taste". Seligman said that the fast pace of modern life and the extreme future mentality of modern people make us forget the present. All technological advances, from the telephone to the Internet, have the advantage of allowing you to do more and faster, saving time so that we can plan the future. Save time, plan the future, let us lose the present. This is an important reason that affects our happiness. Psychologists use "taste" as a tool to find the present and the present. "Taste" refers to perceiving pleasure and focusing on pleasant experiences. Share with others, build memories, congratulate yourself, sharpen your perception and concentrate, all of which can improve your taste ability. How to focus? Concentration is to completely immerse yourself in it, not thinking about anything else, just feeling. Quietly experience, feel and experience. Seligman told us that slowing down, feeling life with heart and observing the world from a new angle are effective ways to improve our happiness and satisfaction in life.

The journey of life is picturesque, but we are in a hurry, forgetting to devote ourselves wholeheartedly and taste pleasure and happiness.

Please remember the sign on the Alps: Walk slowly and enjoy yourself!