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Whoever will ignite the lightning will last as long as a cloud.
—— Nietzsche
booked air tickets, contacted friends, packed up, prepared cameras, batteries, travel guides, razors and condoms, temporarily escaped from real life, and simply tasted in the praised scenery is a popular way of life. There is also an ancient and sad way of leaving, called wandering.
"October" is the golden week for many people to travel, and it is also my movie week. The movie I'm talking about today is related to wandering. This is a real event, a light "on the road" from the 1990s. The protagonist Chris (self-named Alex) has a superior family and academic success, but he resolutely abandoned his savings and future, went to the dream Alaska alone, and died in the ice and snow. When commenting on such an interesting story, my habit is to guess other people’s opinions, and then start talking to myself, a little arrogant and arrogant, after I’ve listed it, please Haihan.
Many people think that this kid is unreliable, but he really dares to do it. Judging from the film’s narrative, Chris is definitely not a professional hiker. He does not have any decent outdoor equipment. Fortunately, some people continue to help him with some of the necessary tools; he also has no ability to deal with strangers. Fortunately, he encountered The hippies, veterans, and containment managers are not bad. If it weren't for these fortunately, our young heroic youth might die on the Mexican border or the Texas desert. My daughter-in-law said that this kid is lucky to be in the United States. If he is in China's no-man's land, he will not be able to get along the road to his death. Hiking alone is not as simple as traveling on holidays, let alone going to the wilderness with bare hands.
Some people may applaud loudly, because the film appropriately satisfies their wandering complex. The magnificent natural scenery and the rough and textured journey experience make this film full of provocative, creating a realistic entrance to the wandering utopia. The movie may not inspire them to make up their minds to embark on a wandering journey, but it is enough to make the audience praise and sympathize with Chris' decisive courage and tragic fate. What everyone wanted to do but didn't dare to do, Chris did it bravely. Although he could not hold on to a happy ending, the obsessives were still excited: nature is so beautiful! Wandering is so handsome! In the future, I must go where and where... Then I immerse myself in the case and forget it after two days.
There are also some people who may want to think more deeply, more than just these two kinds of light and glimpses. The first thing that needs to be questioned is whether Chris's wandering motivation is worth thinking about? How many reliable spiritual resources does he have? On the surface, it was his parents’ disharmony and irreparable rifts in the family relationship. In fact, after reading and thinking, the young people themselves had values that were very different from those of their parents and ordinary people. This kind of value is also very common among Chinese youth today. It is nothing more than the perception of social hypocrisy, ridiculous human sentiment, and meaningless work. But what's interesting is that with such a little bit of otherworldly knowledge, young people feel that they are arrogant and have a kind of self-confidence that "everyone is drunk and I am alone". The purpose of reading is one to seek knowledge and the other to resolve doubts. If you just indulge in the writings and thoughts of the sages, and then dislike the real world, it may not be a good thing.
The three people Chris admired, Tolstoy, Jack London, and Thoreau all have one thing in common: they have tried their best to escape the world all their lives. Tolstoy spent most of his life in his manor, and in his later years he ran away from home due to unbearable disturbance; Jack London was known as the "Sailor on Horseback", and his life's adventures were countless; Shuttle Luo strongly advocated natural life, and built a wooden house on the shore of Walden Lake to live alone. Chris seems to only appreciate the spiritual brilliance of the masters, but ignores the numerous cornerstones of their legendary lives. Jack London has been studying hard while he was a child, and he has acquired many survival skills in his youth; Thoreau is a theoretical and practical plant and animal expert. He has spent decades studying natural phenomena, as well as mathematics and geography. Quite accomplished. In contrast, is Chris who accidentally eaten poisonous weeds in the jungle of Alaska a little unprepared?
The second thing to ask is whether Chris's wandering has achieved what he wanted? We don't expect a perfect story. He can continue to wander happily until he is very old, but at least it can prove that no matter what the ending is, he does not regret his choice. Chris originally believed that the happiness of life can only be found in fresh experiences. This conviction is so firm, when he encounters Jan and Rainey's friendship, Tracy's love and Ron's affection, even if it is used again, he finally brushed his sleeves. But when he died, his last words to the world were: "Happiness only real when shared", he died full of regret and loneliness. Alas, this ending will inevitably hit idealistic young people. Maybe they don't care about the ending. They love the poetic gesture of "live for yourself".
If what I have said above is within your thoughtful range, then we can make friends and talk some gossip between friends. A friend of mine once said that I hope there is such a person who has a free and wandering soul and footsteps. There is such a legend here, even if his wandering dream cannot be realized, at least he still has longing for it. So let us look at the necessary conditions for becoming this legend:
1. He has no parents. Even if there is, it is the kind of cold-faced parent who has never given him love and tenderness. Otherwise, one day, he will worry about his parents' old life.
2. He has no lover. Even if there is, it is like duckweed Laoyan, forgetting the world after the rain. If there is a woman who says his name all the time, even if her heart is like iron, he will remember the gentleness of the past.
3. He must have a strong physique to fight hunger and cold, and a tenacity to resist temptation.
4. He must have certain knowledge of nature, including astronomy, geography, tides, meteorology, animals, plants...
5. He must have a certain amount of interpersonal skills to avoid being deceived and hurt.
6. He must have strong survival skills, daring and good at drinking blood and eating on the spot.
7. He needs infinite energy and unwavering faith. Without one of the two, he will eventually get tired of a wandering career.
8. He can endure true loneliness. Humans are social animals, and cutting off social relations means cutting off the source of emotions. He needs to truly love the world in order to transcend the realm of ordinary people's life and complete a spiritual dialogue with nature, life, and the universe, without falling into nothingness. At this point, it can be said to be a philosopher.
To sum up, a wanderer in true meaning should be a person who has both parents dead, wives scattered, knowledgeable, strong physique, firm-willed, mature in thought, weather-beaten and childlike, skilled in the world but not in the world. Philosopher. I use such a long sentence not to be funny, but to let you see that the possibility is extremely small. This requires both talent and opportunity, as well as awareness and action. Therefore, most people can only travel back and forth between "wandering" and "returning" in their lives. When we were young, when we had ideas, we went away looking for unknown scenery and unexpected surprises; and when we were tired, when we were hurt, we returned to our hometown, returned to the embrace of our mother or lover, and returned Into a familiar and kind life. We are all wanderers halfway, the difference lies in the cycle. Some people walk far away, some people walk close; some are thoughtful, some are heartless; some return to take care of the conceived bride, and some return because they forget to turn off the gas when they go out.
In my most depressing time, I have to travel alone every year. With a small amount of money, riding in the worst car, staying in the worst hotel, walking several places a day, but can't eat a meal, anyway, how can I torture myself. But what's very boring is that my cycle is only 20 days. After more than two weeks of trekking, I will miss my relatives and friends, the steaming snacks on the roadside of my hometown, and even the people and things that I originally disliked gradually gained warmth in my memory. This is not a stray, because you will go home eventually, and you know it very well.
There is a kind of wandering that uses footsteps to measure the ends of the world, and another kind of wandering is to banish thoughts in the endless sky. After experiencing the urge to run away and the exhaustion of the journey, I seem to have realized: the most beautiful scenery is always in the distance of my dream, and no matter how far the footsteps are, I can't get out of the chaotic heart. Wandering is a posture, a way of life, ah, anyone can say that, but in fact, this statement is romantic and concise. Kerouac wrote poems, took drugs, had promiscuous sex, and walked around the coast as birds and beasts. I don't think it's a stray "on the road". Wandering is a high-cost thing, and there is a very high risk of speculation. Buy a ticket and pick up a bag. After a round trip, I bragged to the girl: I went wandering-at the price you paid, I just bought a tag. Some people take life, love, and faith all together, but after all, their intentions are difficult to balance. The difficulty and danger of wandering is not in the high mountains and torrents, swamps and deserts, but in the endlessness of the souls who desire freedom entwined with the branches of mood and thoughts.
Every prodigal son should understand that he will eventually pay the price for his will. Regardless of any substantial "wandering", it will inevitably bring pain. The white hair of parents, the tears of lovers, the call of parents and children will not be mentioned for the time being, and I will ask if you can face the plight of survival and the torture of loneliness after abandoning everything, and regain the ability to talk to nature in another life, and Long-term peace of mind. The effort to overthrow reality and return to nature and the attitude of unwilling to be mediocre and straightforward are certainly valuable, but I have also seen too many pretentious pretense of wandering, leading generations of young people's vain infatuation. For a mature mind, wandering is a baptism of the soul, otherwise, wandering is just an escape from reality.
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