Youth has no price, and experience is the greatest wealth. I don't know where my children's future will go, but I think that children who have enjoyed freedom, adventure and exploration will always be curious, passionate, and passionate throughout their lives, and they will eventually look at the world with shining eyes like people with magic.
Tang Jingjing. On October 11, 2023, late at night, after reading Roald Dahl's "Alone in the World", closing the book, and remembering the last page of the book, Dahl wrote: "The bus was still a hundred yards away, and I saw my mother. She waited patiently outside the door of the house for the bus to pass, and I knew she had been waiting there, the first one an hour or two earlier. But what does it matter if one has been waiting for three years and waiting another hour or two, or even three hours?I made a gesture to the driver of the bus, who parked it just outside the premises. I quickly got off the bus and threw myself into my mother's long-awaited arms ......”
It was 9:40 p.m. At that time, my son and his classmates were riding on the way to western Sichuan, and I had not received the news that he had arrived at his destination that day, so I couldn't help but be a little worried, so I left a message on WeChat: "Report safety when I arrive." ”
Humor and optimism bring good luck
In the modern era, we can leave messages and communicate at any time, and exchange information. In the 40s of the 20th century, when Roald Dahl joined the army, a safe telegram he wrote to his home after retreating from the battlefield did not reach his mother until three months after he arrived home.
And in the 3 years of service in the Air Force, Roald Dahl did not pass a ** with his mother. His mother was a woman who had lost her husband and had four daughters and a son, Roald Dahl, who was young, enthusiastic, and fearless, and actively enlisted in the RAF at the outbreak of World War II.
Roald Dahl took part in a number of cruising combat missions during the war. And he only went through 7 months of flight training, and did not have any combat experience, and he was 1With a height of 83 meters, he should be matched by a large bomber, and at that time, Britain could only let him fly a small fighter.
So when Roald Dahl flew his Hurricane fighter from Egypt to Greece, his legs cramped from curling up for too long because the cockpit was too small, and when he arrived safely, he couldn't stand up for a long time. And then, what is even more ridiculous is that there is no navigation on their planes, and the pilots fly around the world with just a map on their laps.
Some pilots who were hastily preparing for training were sent to the battlefield in a hurry, and Roald Dahl was one of them. Now it seems to be a war full of errors and comical that Roald Dahl nearly lost his life before he could join the fight. A wrong destination guide caused him to land in the desert rocks, and caused a severe brain **, temporary blindness;And with only 15 "Hurricane" fighters in Greece, they had to deal with thousands of aircraft of the Germans. Of course, the reality was not as fortunate as Roald Dahl's "good-eyed giant", with less winning more and weaker defeating the strong, Dahl and the other 8 surviving pilot comrades were finally forced to evacuate Greece.
Roald Dahl experienced a crash landing in the desert, and in his letter to his mother, he could not describe the details of the crash because discipline did not allow it, but he was in the hospital for six months, and you can imagine the severity of his injuries. But he only wrote in the letter: "We are not too worried about the raid here, the bombardiers on the Italian bombers are terrible." "Roald Dahl's sense of humor and optimism is really innate.
Youth has no price, and experience is the greatest wealth.
The war described by the author is full of threats to life, and his son's cycling path is full of challenges.
On the first day of travel, he and his classmates rode for 7 hours and more than 300 kilometers, and when there was light rain on the road, he wore a raincoat, and the down jacket inside was completely wet. When they came to live in Chengdu, he took a picture of my soaked clothes, and my mother couldn't help but worry about how he would enter the mountains without thick clothes in the next few days
But I can't do anything, the road I have to walk, the things I have to go through, my mother can't replace it. Keep the blessing, believe that he can resist pressure, he knows the difficult road, but also can forge ahead, under the premise of ensuring safety, all the experience, is experience, I don't interfere too much.
Roald Dahl fought in 1940 at the age of 24, which is a wonderful age. My son, who is 21 years old at the end of this year and is also in the prime of his youth, wrote before his departure: "Youth has no price. ”
Roald Dahl has always loved photography, and he always has a camera in the small package he carries with him, and he knows how to print. Every time the small plane took off, he would put his camera and notepad at his feet. Only for the last time they were evacuated, they were asked not to take anything with them except a notepad. After this successful evacuation, when he returned to the front again, he bought another camera to take with him. He used these cameras to preserve very precious images, and through nearly a century, these black and white ** came to us, so that the war and the image of Roald Dahl that are different from the writer are presented on paper.
My son is also very fond of photography, and this trip borrowed an action camera to capture the hardships of the road. When I see the oncoming truck, and see the motorcycle he was riding falling crookedly on the grass, my heart will also be tense. Of course, there are many beautiful moments that make me feel young, they throw wind horses at the Zheduo Mountain Pass, pile up Mani stones on the roadside to pray for blessings, embrace the snow-capped mountains with open arms, and eat barbecue on the roadside in the cold rain and roast ...... by the way
In this trip to the west of Xiaochuan, they know that respecting other people's cultures, revering the heavens and the earth and snow-capped mountains, and calmly meeting with the cold wind, rain and snow, and roadblocks in the hardships and difficulties of the road, is to see the heaven and the earth, to see all living beings, and also to see their own sacred journey.
I remember when my son was 6 years old, he wrote down his dream of flying an airplane to wander. This child, who has always yearned for freedom and passion, is now 20 years old and has begun his "wandering" career in which he has been engaged in intermittent studies.
This year, he traveled to many places. Our family traveled together in August of this year;Of course, he also traveled separately, he experienced a one-person trip, a group of people's trips, a trip with strangers, and even rode part of the Sichuan-Tibet Line 318 this month. He grew up in places that we can't see, growing his knowledge in the way he likes, and photographing the customs and customs of various places.
Recalling that Roald Dahl, who participated in harsh battles and often hung by a thread, not only did he escape again and again by virtue of good luck or luck, but his intelligence, cleverness, and experience allowed him to have nine lives like a cat in that war until he returned to his mother.
My child also returned to Chongqing safely in the early morning of October 15th. When he told me by voice on WeChat at 3 a.m., "It's time to arrive", I woke up from my sleep as if telepathically, picked up my phone, and just heard his voice, I knew that my blessing and trust worked again.
Indeed, youth has no price, and experience is the greatest asset.
Trust and blessing are more important than admonitions
When my son started school this year, I didn't write to him again, and I gradually felt that trust and blessings for him were more important than advice. Old-school practices and ideas can only be talked about by experience, young people want to do it, want to have, and parents can only support and bless. The road they have to step out of step by step can only be experienced by themselves. The pain and joy along the way cannot be replaced even by the closest people. And we have to believe that every step of life counts.
Roald Dahl chose to work for Shell Oil Company at an age when he could have gone to Oxford, and went to Dar es Salaam in East Africa, where the experience was both fun and dangerousHe later joined the RAF as a soldier, and only wrote to his mother, in which he wrote: "I don't know what you think of all this, but I personally think it sounds quite exciting and interesting. ”
A young man who loves adventure and excitement, and later became a very famous children's writer in the history of English literature, settled in the village of Missendon, England in 1954, owning a small cottage and loving to grow flowers and plants all his life.
In one notebook, he wrote: "There is a lot of work to be done in the garden – tending to the roses, painting the facades, picking cherries, ......He also built himself a writing cottage in the garden, where Roald Dahl wrote "James and the Great Peach," "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," "Magic Fingers," "The Marvelous Fox Dad," "Danny," "The Good-Eyed Giant," "Matilda," and "The Runaway Boy." The kids still love it to this day.
I don't know where my children's future will go, but I think that children who have enjoyed freedom, adventure and exploration will always be curious, passionate, and passionate throughout their lives, and they will eventually look at the world with shining eyes like people with magic.