Lonely mountain life

Thoreau mentioned in Walden that during the two years from 1845 to 1847, why did he go to Connecticut to live alone? He explained it this way: "I went to live in the forest because I wanted to live a meaningful life. I just wanted to face the most important facts in life and see if I could learn what life can teach me, not when I was about to die." I don't want to live a life that is not a life, because living is so precious ... "

He further emphasized the purpose of being alone in the Woods: "I want to live a profound life, absorb all the essence of life, and live a strong Spartan life." The purpose is to abandon everything that has nothing to do with life and take drastic measures to push life into a corner and minimize it. If life proves its meanness, find out its true nature and then expose its meanness to the world; If life is noble, then use personal experience to understand his noble ... "

I'm not Thoreau, and I don't have his profound view of loneliness. In the past two years, due to various unexpected changes and a very accidental opportunity, I actually lived a mountain life similar to his, giving me a chance to try and adapt: the taste of living alone in the mountain.

In our present environment, most people attach great importance to encouragement, commitment and interaction between people, which means that most adults rarely have the opportunity to live alone in the mountains. Or, even if there is such an opportunity, most people may find it difficult to adapt to this lonely and helpless daily life.

When I first entered the mountain, I was not used to being alone, and sometimes I was in a trance, wandering and shrinking. Occasionally, I will hesitate, hesitate and even doubt: What is the value and significance of such a lonely day? Slowly, I calmed down and calmed down, only to find that the years when a person lived in the mountains turned out to be so different and special, which actually benefited from a person's inner wealth and brought different feelings and surprises. ...

In the morning and evening, I am used to walking alone on the path by the field. A person's wandering and walking is the only way for a person to walk out of his inner desolation, the way for a person to find and discover, and the best opportunity to talk to his heart. At that moment, I always have a surge of joy, so relaxed that I can think, think unconsciously and feel free ... Or, I just want nothing, just wander around and let my own steps lead my mood ... At present, the natural scenery in Taoyuan, Shan Ye is relaxing and there will be no feeling of depression. I randomly select and choose, so that I can see the sights and things I want to see. Those things I like often pop up inadvertently and break into my sight, bringing me moving inspiration and many feelings. This is a life experience I have never had before: as long as a person is calm, stable and free from distractions, he is like a newly weaned child, lying in his mother's arms.

Often in today's fast-paced urban life, once the pressure comes, most people will want to escape from the city and have such an impulsive idea: they want to leave people and things around them, hide far away, and hide in no one's land, which will be easier and more comfortable ... It's cute, just talking, just imagining, and things are not that simple and will not be put into practice at all. Actually, the answer is simple. If you really act like that, you are afraid of losing everything in front of you, which is hard to give up and unbearable. In this way, you slowly consume, day after day, you will have a miserable life.

Many people will say that those who really give up, let go and live a lonely life are the most extreme and completely selfish people! In this way, I am also an extremely selfish person. A lot of people say I am. Sometimes, I doubt my choice: Is it worthwhile for a person to abandon his wife and children and live a lonely life in Shan Ye in the mountains? Still not worth it? I don't know if I'm too greedy, but I just want to try. I'm afraid I don't have much time left. I want to get a different life calendar and look forward to better understanding life and feeling what life should be like.

As Thoreau said, "No matter how mean and mediocre your life is, meet it and live it well. Don't avoid it, curse it. It's not as bad as you say. When you are richest, life is poorest. The faultfinder can find faults even in heaven. Love life even if you are poor. Even in the workhouse, maybe you will have some happy, exciting and glorious moments. "

Furthermore, Thoreau stressed: "Don't bother to get new things, whether it's new clothes or new friends ... things haven't changed, but we have changed." Sell your clothes, keep your thoughts ... no need to socialize. If we are imprisoned in a corner of the attic like spiders, as long as I still have thoughts, the world is still so big to me. "

The road ahead is long, and I will search up and down. Whenever I want to give up this hard-won lonely mountain life, Thoreau's powerful voice always reminds me: "Go ahead on the only road I can travel, and no force can stop me on this road."

Thoreau lived in the Woods near Walden Lake and was self-reliant and grew corn and beans. Compared with his farming and labor, when I went back to school for isolation during the epidemic, I planted 22 watermelons (8 in front of the grave on the half slope, 14 behind the kitchen window), a ridge of peppers, half a ridge of beans, plus 8 eggplants and 1 1 cucumber. Also, by the way, a henhouse was built in front of the foot of the mountain, and two hens and three cocks were kept in captivity. Watching them turn into night, bathed in the morning light of summer, full of lush and vibrant appearance, I can't help but be elated, and my heart is full of joy and expectation for a bumper harvest. ...

Living alone in the mountains, the years are quiet. That's enough!