My cloud friends

The first time I noticed clouds was after a heavy rain.

It was in a small village in northern Hunan. The adults were scattered in the distant fields one by one, rescuing the cotton that had just been watered.

Only Xiao Hei followed me around, and the world washed by water was white and bright.

When I was five years old, I was attracted by a shining pothole on the edge of the trail. There was a ball of white marshmallows inside. It was the only snack I had ever eaten. The taste will be unforgettable for me forever.

I wanted to reach out and take it, but I saw the blue sky inside, and a group of swallows quickly passed under the marshmallows, which really shocked me.

I dare not move.

If I jump from this pit, will I land on marshmallows or fall into the boundless blue sky?

When I came out of my thoughts, the marshmallow was gone, just blue. I was anxious, so I quickly went over and searched carefully, and then I saw a dirty face, her nose was covered with mud, and her hair wet from the rain was stuck to her forehead.

This face is so familiar. When I blink, she blinks too. Suddenly, another dog head appeared inside! Isn't that Xiao Hei?

I looked at it next to me, and then looked at it in this magical pit, and I suddenly understood that there is another world inside! Everything that exists in our world is also there.

I looked up at the sky again:

"Look, the marshmallow appeared again, exactly the same as the one in the magic pit!" I shouted to Xiao Hei!

"Fool! Is this Yunhao!" Brother Mao Tou's voice came from behind.

From then on, I fell in love with clouds.

I have no playmates, and I don’t have to go to school. The task assigned to me by my parents is to take care of my two-year-old sister, so I can’t go too far. The world seems to be a piece of solidified cheese. Although it remains unchanged, I know it is fragrant.

Yun knows my boredom and entertains me like magic every day, especially in summer.

Sometimes, it comes covered with colorful clouds and spreads its wings in the sky like the legendary phoenix; sometimes it acts as the red veil of the sun, never letting the light show its face.

Anyway, it always gives me a different world, which makes my every day different. I have never seen the same clouds from summer to fall.

Later we moved.

In that strange place, I saw Huoshaoyun for the first time. Those groups and blossoming flames are lingering and boundless.

Such clouds are beyond my imagination, and such beauty is enough to offset all my uneasiness. As long as I think that there will always be such wonderful things waiting for me in this strange world, I will have a pursuit in life.

I went to school. A child who likes to watch clouds cannot fit into the group.

In front of my smart classmates, I was like a fool. They seem to be born knowing how to arrive at school on time, how to write their homework well, and how to say some well-behaved words to be praised by teachers and classmates.

What about me? On the way over the hill to school, I often forget my goal. While watching the clouds, I pulled the dogtail grass.

When I arrived at the door of the classroom, the teacher asked me to stand outside with a face. For a month, I didn't understand why I couldn't enter the classroom. But it doesn’t matter, I looked at the clouds, bit my nails, and the day passed.

Until one day, a classmate pointed at me: This is the idiot who is late every day.

Ah, I finally understand that there is something called being late in this world.

"Hey! Why are you always different from others!" After finishing speaking, my deskmate spat at me.

I wanted to say that I have never seen a cloud that is exactly the same. But I was shaking with fear.

I remember one day, after I saw a heart-shaped cloud, I was so surprised that I called an older brother in fifth grade: "Look! A heart-shaped cloud!"

He white He glanced at me and laughed with his companions.

I understand, it turns out that people have the same needs. I can't watch the clouds anymore, I just need to be safe.

I finally woke up from the unknown world, and soon, I had my own little friend!

That was the first friend with whom I became a land-in-law, and also the first partner with whom I could share the cloud.

What a pity, within a year, she went to Shenzhen with her parents. Before we left, I made an appointment with her. Seeing dog-like clouds means you miss me, and seeing mouse-like clouds means I miss you.

Although we are thousands of miles apart, we can look at the same cloud and say hello to each other, just like seeing each other.

Later, I often climbed mountains to watch, and I found that almost every cloud looked like a dog or a mouse. This makes me excited.

She would come back every winter and summer vacation, but the repeater and the bully in her mouth were as far away as clouds. And I only have Yun to share with her.

One day I finally discovered that in Hunan and Shenzhen, we could look up at the same starry sky, but we couldn't see the same cloud. What a big joke.

That’s how we broke up.

Throughout my youth, my family moved six times. Every time you leave a place, you lose contact with a few friends. Every time I go to a new place, I have to look for new friends.

I sing the song of lasting friendship, but no friendship can last forever.

The sense of security I prayed for never seemed to come. Later, I stopped making friends. If we would be separated one day, then why start.

When I grew up and went back to being alone, clouds became the most loyal friends in my paintings.

I love watching clouds even more.

When I was young, I always thought it was delaying me. But the clouds just gather and disperse, over and over again.

Sometimes they are lively and exciting; sometimes they are so lonely that they entertain themselves; sometimes they are within reach, and sometimes they are out of reach. I think it's guiding me, but it's really just being itself.

Life is like clouds, as impermanent as clouds. A person who resists impermanence will not have clouds appear in his heart.

Just like the marshmallow I saw that year, when it passes by inadvertently, whether it is a surprise or a surprise, you have to accept that it will become a dream in an instant.