High School Composition Meeting Strangers

One day I was waiting for my classmates at the school gate, and the school gate was surrounded by a dense crowd of people standing side by side. At this time, a woman was passing through the crowd handing out advertising paper, giving one to each person, some stuffed into the bicycle basket, and some given directly to people's hands. Most people still take it and browse it. I saw a young woman in fashionable clothes throwing it to the ground with disdain. The person who happened to be posted saw that the advertising woman calmly turned back with an apology on her face, picked it up again, and continued to repeat each post. An advertisement. I didn't even bother to look at such an advertisement, and actually wanted to throw it away, but seeing the woman's serious attitude, I still read the content. As I looked at it, more than ten minutes had passed. I really felt like I had gained something from reading, and put the flyer in the basket again.

I once read an article about a young man who posted small advertisements on the street. When he secretly posted them on a telephone pole, he found that the space on the pole could not accommodate his advertisement, so he felt free to do so. Use a knife to cut the pieces into small pieces and stick them in. Instead of just covering it up on top of others like others.

I also read an article about a famous local theater actress who repaired people's shoes on the street after the theater company closed down. She didn't care who she met, what kind of shoes they were, or the shoes. No matter how dirty or shabby it was, she repaired it carefully and conscientiously. Even when she was dealing with rude people, she never got angry and was neither humble nor overbearing. The tape recorder at the shoe stall often plays drama jokes. His clothes are always clean and tidy, and there is never a mess in front of the stall.

In my hometown, there is a car repairman who is nearly 50 years old. Others charge two or three yuan to repair inner tubes, but he always only charges one yuan; others charge 50 cents or one yuan for inflating services, but he does it for free; others give them money to repair whatever they want, but he always checks the tire pressure, the basket, and even loosens the tire. Tighten the screws and never add extra money. If there were many parts to be repaired and it took a long time, he would use jingles, riddles, jokes, etc. to pass the time while people were waiting. He would keep talking while talking in his hands; when replacing parts for people, he would always tell people that they were of good quality. Take it out and compare it repeatedly with the poor-quality samples prepared on the ground for customers, explain in detail, and charge the lowest price. Seeing his nimble hands and feet, his quick eyes and diligent mouth, his excitement and energy all over his body, and the optimism expressed in his words and expressions, everyone who patronized his stall was infected.

But sometimes, some practices that are simply a bit philistine are even unfamiliar to me, and I have long forgotten that it was only thirty years since I came out of the countryside. For example, when you hire tricycles and give water to pedalers, you always dislike them for soiling their water glasses; when you ask them to move things home, you are always wary of them taking away your own things; when you encounter people selling melons and vegetables, you always hesitate. Checking whether there is any shortage or even over-picking has caused a lot of damage to their dishes; especially when buying a new house and decorating it, migrant workers are on guard against it.

In our society, melamine milk has appeared, meat, fruits and vegetables with excessive drug residues often appear, and poisonous ginger has just appeared. If we only rely on these to prevent or even be hostile to all farmers, it would be a little bit. There is a lot of noise. In fact, many farmers do evil to the city people because they are discriminated against by some so-called city people. What is more, it is caused by our indifference towards them.

Writer Hu Zhanfen once told a story. When traveling in Norway, a young woman helped him when he needed help the most, but he thought she was a wandering warbler, and then thought she was a "sitter" , and finally worried that she was planning to kidnap him and extort ransom from the delegation. He wrote: Maybe it’s because we’ve been living in the “Abalone House” for a long time, or maybe it’s because we’ve been so close to black ink, but we’ve long been unaware of the desertification of our souls, so that after a sudden change of environment, we suddenly realize that apart from eating habits, we no longer have anything to do with it. I'm used to people being kind to me.

We ask ourselves, who is more responsible for our existing "abalone restaurants"? Many of us consider ourselves noble and arrogant, even to the point of despising everything around us. Even if we are in a gorgeous imperial capital, high-end libraries and office buildings, we are always worried about soiling our pure and pure bodies, and we take strict precautions against everything. However, he throws away paper scraps, packaging materials, and garbage at will, polluting everything around him.

Someone has said: There are always some strangers outside our sight. They may be ordinary, but they are interesting; they may be wonderful, but unknown; they may be marginal, but they are extraordinary. It is closely related to our lives.

In fact, each of us may be a stranger to them. To know them is to know ourselves. It is to understand the details of this era and the emerging cultural ecology from multiple levels and angles. ”

Many people regard strangers as enemies, so much so that the TV series “Don’t Talk to Strangers” has been popular for many years, and many families even use the examples in the TV series to educate their children to increase their awareness of prevention. In fact, , people live more in a world of strangers. If we subjectively regard strangers as opponents or even enemies, can our lives be interesting? Everyone is hostile to strangers, but humans still survive in this world?

Besides, are relatives, friends and other familiar people trustworthy? There are many incidents in ancient and modern times, such as fratricide, strangers, friends, and even fights. For example, does this mean that everyone is disowned?

There are farmers everywhere in the city. This is historical progress and an inevitable phenomenon in the process of rural urbanization and farmer citizenization. , since we rely on them to solve many problems in urban construction and operation, why do we only focus on their side that we are not accustomed to to determine their existence? Think about it more deeply, after all, people survive in the world through social organizations? , social organizations exist in the natural environment, and we treat human society as a whole. Our limbs include not only the relatives, friends and colleagues around us, but also all strangers. In other words, human beings must treat everything as friends. It is possible to exist better. We must not only rely on relatives and friends, but also on all the strangers we meet and interact with. We must also rely on everything in the environment to provide us with the materials we need. In this sense, we are interdependent on each other. They are already friends of each other, so how can they be strangers?

Let’s go back to the stories of the few little characters at the beginning. Most of the time, flyer advertisers are humble little characters in towns or cities. , people want them to disappear forever from the city along with those small advertisements. The urban psoriasis they create and the urban band-aids they paste are so annoying and have a huge impact on the urban environment. We might as well think about it from another perspective. , Who do they serve? Who causes more "pollution" than the city boss who hires them? They know that they are doing extremely menial work, and they know that they will be chased and investigated by the law enforcement team, but they still do it? If they accept employment, some can only work underground at night. How much salary do they earn? Is it commensurate with their efforts? If they have a stable residence in the city, a decent income, and a fixed social circle with familiar faces. , will they do those things?

Think again about the farmers who make harmful food. If various social organizations can provide them with comprehensive and complete protection, they can make things harmful to the people. Is it something? If they have enough financial security and decent status, will they easily take risks and harm others?

Of course, there are also some villains with heresy and lawlessness, but we also have to think about it. Think about it, who provided them with the soil to act recklessly?

In fact, we should look at the people who mended shoes and repaired cars as mentioned above. They are so high-quality and capable. People with high spiritual character maintain the survival of themselves and their families in this way. How do those so-called noble people with bad character and excessive possession of high-quality resources in society "grace and protect" many people?

We should all look at all kinds of people, their living conditions, and their mental states. When everyone pays attention to every corner of society from a comprehensive perspective, we may have new views on strangers, and accordingly we will have a repositioning of ourselves. Is there a cultural ecology of “strangers”?