After going through the fragmented 2022, we are exhausted both physically and mentally.
In this year, everyone's private life has been given public attributes, cut into several units by others, placed in a certain system, and cannot be overstepped.
Vaguely, we realize a certain hopelessness, experience a certain absurdity, and perceive a certain lack of logic. Based on these complex emotions, we long to see through the fog and understand the truth.
The experts’ explanations are wavering. When authority is needed most, no authoritative voice can be heard. It seems that what they say is just to fit their respective personalities.
As a result, those who "cleared the plague" appeared on the stage, each showing their magical powers, and they seemed to be the killers of the virus. Because of a certain theory, even canned yellow peaches became a popular item.
When public relief is stretched thin, private relief based on human nature comes into being. People seek good solutions through communication, confirm opinions through interaction, accumulate new knowledge through experience, and raise questions through thinking.
got bored, so he stood on the balcony and sang a song, seeking the harmony of his soul.
However, this kind of spontaneous exploration is limited after all. At that time when big words were in power, the so-called "coexistence" was accused of being a dangerous road. The statistics of illness and death in the beautiful country disclosed by CCTV made people tremble.
Until one day, the World Cup started.
Picture source: FIFA official Weibo
It was a picture full of life: nearly 100,000 people crowded together, talking without restraint, waving flags and shouting, embracing each other passionately, and spitting, forming a sharp contrast with our people who were huddled in silence under the eaves. ——We can’t help but ask: Are they not the same kind of human beings as us?
This is a realistic scene of "Western wind spreading eastward", which is related to many concepts such as national governance, public health, value of life, freedom of movement, etc. According to this, some people say that what we see is not only the World Cup, but also the world view.
was shocked, frustrated, questioning, dissatisfied, until the crowd started to express their opinions. Everyone has experienced the plot twist that follows, so there is no need to say more. It is the brave people who stir up the atmosphere, awaken the understanding people in the system, and jointly end the hopeless eradication. Today, we are all suffering and are suffering from the consequences of our choices. A few people will pay the price with their lives. But compared to the approach of dragging down the economy and suffocating people to death, do we have a better option?
Life needs to bloom, not be imprisoned, especially for young people.
Judging from global experience, liberalization is the only choice, and coexistence means compromise. In this regard, there is no turning back. However, the sudden turn around, passive response, and various regrettable absences still caught many people off guard. After
was released, everything was beyond imagination: the spread of virus was beyond imagination; the shortage of medicines was beyond imagination; the chaos of self-medication was beyond imagination; the crowding of hospitals was beyond imagination; the desertedness of the market was beyond imagination. In short, everything was not as calm as some people said.
As if overnight, people walked from the castle into the jungle, only to find themselves unarmed.
This is a lack of governance. Before letting go, there was no authoritative voice to prepare for a rainy day and provide plans; the forces that once controlled us did not show their grace in the new battlefield; when we needed Dabai the most, Dabai disappeared. The situation switched from orderly and orderly to well-founded and disorderly. People were in collective confusion and could not find a scientific way to fight.
Photography: Han Haodong
As a result, various prescriptions have become popular, and the most familiar one is: drink more water, drink more milk, eat more eggs, sleep more, and don’t go out to fool around. This is the best medicine.
I admit that this prescription is very good and is applicable to everyone, but it does not cure the disease.When sentient beings need an antidote, certain experts are providing tonics.
This is like a certain embarrassment in our circle: the criminal suspect wants to be counseled on his innocence, but the lawyer teaches him how to be a good person.
The world is in chaos, and experts are also in chaos. Therefore, everyone tried to learn without a teacher, find good medicine, and guard their own territory alone.
When we turn our attention to Singapore, we can’t help but have mixed feelings when we see Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong ’s sincere warning to the people before liberalization.
We also hope to have a similar uncle next door who can help everyone come up with solutions, encourage everyone, and explain clearly the difficulties they are facing.
Looking back on the past three years of life, it is actually a life dominated by chaotic order. Cognitive chaos, governance chaos, information chaos, interpersonal relationships have also become chaotic, and scientific logic and the logic of the rule of law are rare. Our lives are confusing and hazy, until this year, it has reached its extreme.
This kind of life is heartbreaking enough and profound enough. When we cross the sea of suffering and return to the mortal world, we find that we have become strong enough.
This is a rebirth after being tempered by life. This is a flash of inspiration for the civilian version of heroism.
The panic, confusion, complaints, hysteria and arrogance of the past are gradually fading away, replaced by rationality, calmness, fearlessness, positivity and longing.
"Have you passed the sun?" has quietly become a new greeting.
At this moment, we became extremely relieved, just as Mu Xin said: Sincerely, everything in the world can be forgiven.
It’s time to clean up.
Standing at the cold end of 2022, we need a spiritual end and a turn of events without hesitation more than ever. We must say goodbye not only to the past year, but also to the past three years; we must say goodbye not only to fear, but also to ignorance; we must say goodbye not only to arrogance, but also to chaos.
Respect nature, respect viruses, and cherish every small life.
We need to make a decisive turn, bid farewell to the old ideological system, and embrace the new world civilization.
If the virus never goes away, we are not afraid to dance with it; if the world is not warm enough, we know how to help each other.
Camus tells us: Even if the world is as desolate as a small town Oran shrouded in plague, as long as there is a trace of warmth left, despair will not devour people's hearts.
Everything in the past is just a prologue. Poetry and distance are like milk and bread. They are not just words. They need to be touched by one's own hands, and the efforts made will definitely be far greater than before.
The real salvation is to remember the suffering and pursue future happiness.
The New Year’s bell is about to ring, and we long for the auspiciousness of this bell more than ever. May it wash away the old dust, summon new wind, and usher in a clearer 2023 for mankind.
We will eventually meet again with beauty!
wishes you: Happy New Year!
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