Zhou: The past in Time Village.

Preface to "Light Love Letters on Earth"

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There are two kinds of people, one has a past and the other has no past.

People with past events love life and deeply regret the passage of time, so they cherish all their experiences in the barn of their hearts with a special love.

What in the world is not the past? Everything I see, hear and experience at this moment is fleeting and a thing of the past. Therefore, people who cherish the past will look at everything lovingly, at the wheat fields that are about to be harvested, at the trees that are falling leaves, at the flowers that finally bloom, and at the aging pedestrians walking on the road. This feeling of being apart from everything is the deepest source of love. Because of this love, a person will really see, listen and live with heart.

Yes, only those who cherish the past are truly alive.

A person who has no past will not care about the passage of time. This numbness made him despise everything. Everything he experienced was like a fleeting cloud, drifting away with the wind, leaving nothing behind. He didn't even want to stay. He just watched, listened and lived. In fact, he is already an empty shell without a soul.

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People who cherish the past must also have a gentle love.

When people we love travel or die, we can't help but think of their benefits and regret our negligence and mistakes. However, in fact, even before Where Are You Going, didn't the people we love always leave us?

In the vast universe, the birth of any creature is accidental, but the departure is inevitable; The encounter between one creature and another is always a thousand years, but the separation is beyond redemption. After all, in this empty world, who is different from who is the end of the world?

In ordinary daily life, you are used to getting along with the people you love, as if the days will last indefinitely. Suddenly one day, your heart was startled, remembering that time flies, you, your loved ones and everything you were together were irretrievably taken away. Then, a tender feeling rose in my heart, trying to protect my lover from time. You also deeply feel how precious the simplest happiness in these ordinary lives is, with fleeting and amazing beauty.

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How do people get their souls?

Travel through the past.

It is countless caressed past events that endow the soul with depth and breadth and create a complete soul. In such a soul, all the past events continue to live: the dew of the past continues to shine, the songs floating in the night continue to reverberate, the wine that has been drunk continues to smell fragrant, and the dead relatives continue to talk to you. You see the world through the living past, and the world has a unique charm. Living in the past-this is the secret of the soul's productivity and creativity.

In all the past, childhood occupied the most important chapter. Childhood is the source of soul growth. I even want to say that the soul is nothing more than a mature childlike innocence and will not be lost because of maturity. The little prince in the fairy tale written by Saint Exupery put it well: What makes the desert look beautiful is where it hides a well. I believe that childhood is a well in the desert. Happy are those who have been taking a good life path with their childhood. Because there is an inexhaustible source of love hidden in their hearts, the most desolate desert has become a beautiful scenery.

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God created the countryside and man created the city. This is a poem by the English poet Cooper. I want to add: in rural areas, time keeps the form created by God, which is time and time; In cities, time is abstracted into calendars and numbers.

In the city, time stands still. There is no season in this city. There are no migratory birds returning from melting snow in spring, and there are no fallen leaves and harvested crops in autumn. Only those who are sensitive to the passage of time will have past events. However, city people are surrounded by various buildings all year round. How can he have a keen sense of the change of seasons and the alternation of years?

What's more, in modern commercial society, people are living in a hurry, and there is no time to pay attention to the trivial things of plant germination and defoliation! Where is luxury? See with your eyes, listen with your ears and feel with your heart! Time is money, and life is simplified to making money and spending money as soon as possible. Meditation is a luxury, and recalling the past is a waste. An odd contradiction: the pace of life has accelerated, but there is no life. Every day is a race against time, and the years are wasted. Finally found that life is really short. How can it not be short? There is nothing worth remembering, you can see it at a glance.

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In such a world without the past, a person who cherishes the past quietly wrote down her nostalgia for the past. These are too small memories, as small as flowers, beetles, kitchen smoke in the field and moss on the well platform that she never forgets. However, in her mind, everything that time brings and takes away is a love letter written by the creator to the world. She read the infinite meaning from it with her lover's eyes and treasured it in her loyal heart.

This is the human love letter in front of you. You will find that many words in my preface are said by light light blue, and I just made a brief summary.

Light light blue went to college and published poems, but I think she is just a country child. This collection of her essays is also like a small wild flower on the edge of a rural ridge. Today, flowers in the greenhouse have become fashionable gifts, which may be very inconspicuous. However, I believe that readers will like it and think of Tagore's famous poem-

My Lord, your century, one by one, has come to complete a small wild flower.