In the kitchen, my conversation with my mother

In the morning, after dinner, my mother was cleaning in the kitchen. From time to time, a word came: "It's time to pour this oil again. How long has it been poured?" What oil? I looked up and saw that it was a range hood.

I asked my mother, "Do you miss your childhood life in the farm house?" Mother said rationally, "I don't miss it." Her lack of nostalgia may be right. Just like cooking, it is not easy to have firewood alone. When my mother was a child, it was very difficult for agriculture to harvest Chengdu in one year, not to mention having firewood after harvest and saving firewood.

at that time, regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter, I had to get up at midnight every day. There is no watch at home, and the only thing that can measure the time is the cock crowing, but at that time the cock didn't crow. Get up and touch the black road to climb the Beishan Mountain, which is more than ten miles away from the village. Just walking and climbing mountains is a great physical exertion.

when I climbed the mountain, I said in my mother's words, "The mountain is also convex." Walking that far, you can pick up a bundle of firewood every time. So I get up early and tired day after day.

Mom said that at that time, her biggest dream was to look forward to when I would stop climbing the North Mountain. I think the memory of collecting firewood in my mother's childhood alone is better than her happy life in the countryside in the future.

Maybe, I haven't really experienced the toil and hardship of rural life, as well as the spiritual struggle day after day. Therefore, my life in the countryside is full of poetic imagination. Of course, the quality of rural life has improved a lot and there is a lot less hard work.

what I imagine is that cooking in the yard, without turning on the range hood, all the smoke, oil smoke and so on run up and then blend in with the surrounding air. There is no need to spend a certain amount of time to clean up the oil stain.

what I imagine is that there are seasonal fruits and vegetables planted in the yard, and there are flowers and grass dotted around the yard. After work every day, one of my major leisure and activities is sowing, digging and watering ... Every day, on a sunny day, I sit next to them and enjoy the sunshine and air together. Wow, I'm drunk. I'm really intoxicated when I imagine it.

just, wake up. I live in the city now, and everything is convenient. My body is liberated from work, but the space in my heart is getting smaller and smaller, and it is more and more difficult to understand nature and comfort.

When eating, there is news on the side. If you don't need mental participation, chew and swallow, then take your brain away and listen to some important news today.

after eating a meal, I didn't eat it delicious, complained that the meal was terrible, and asked for more seasoning when cooking next time. Or simply eat takeout and eat some fast food.

Eating doesn't need the brain to work, but it still needs its participation. The body and brain are a whole, and they are closely connected with cells. Eating a meal is not a sprint, it is not a charging, what we want is to eat and eat naturally with the whole body. Eat its natural flavor, absorb its nutrition and replenish healthy energy to the body.

The outside world is so fast that it has to be accelerated. It seems that eating is a waste of time. Every day, there are always tens of thousands of people in the WeChat group and circle of friends, and all kinds of needs change, so we should seize it quickly ... If you dare to stop, it seems that life is too horrible.

The epidemic stopped us from traveling busily, but it didn't stop our desire. When I was a child, the first section of the science class was titled "Love Nature". Now, I think it is funny.

everyone is running and stopping, as if there is something really different. But the heart is in our own body after all. Besides yoga and bathing every day, we should calm down and get along comfortably with our heart. Maybe it needs your care, too. For example, take a vacation ...

I can only hear about the hard work of my mother when she was a child, but I can't understand it. Her life is much easier now than before, and her heart is satisfied, so she feels good now. And I hope I can be satisfied with the present. When I tell my children about my life when I was young, I am not looking for a way out for my heart that is always working hard and pinning my hopes on tomorrow.

When I read A Brief History of Mankind that day, there was a passage to the effect that capitalists would invest a large part of their income, or continue to expand production, but rarely use it for consumption. The products or services produced have to have a market, so a new ethical concept-consumerism has been introduced, and with the help of popular psychology, "indulgence is good for you, while frugality is like self-suppression."

I can't help smiling when I look at the health pot on the table at home. Obviously, there is a kettle and a rice cooker, and there is an extra pot specially for health preservation. Looking at the news, what did so-and-so coffee invest? Rich people had money to invest, but we paid some wages and hurried to spend.

it's much more difficult to break up than to enjoy consumerism, but it's also true to calm down and think. That is to give up the desire for money, pleasure and fame. Remember Ma Yun said a word to the effect that he would get 2, yuan a month? People who earn money have the most comfortable life. Simply put, it's easy to understand. Life is not beautiful with abundant material life and spiritual separation.

this year, I plan to add the following contents to my notebook: buy new clothes. Fortunately, so far this year, my new addition has not exceeded the standard.