In these hustle and bustle times, talking about poetry and distant places will attract laughter.
No matter what your profession is, the most talked about when you meet is money. How much (money) can you earn? How much money do you have?
It's good to have money! You can buy a lot of good things in this world. But no amount of money, you can't buy affection, love, life, freedom! And unguarded trust, respect in the heart, dignity in the bones!
Money is not everything, and it is impossible to have money. Simply talking about dreams and feelings, not about money, regardless of economic foundation, that is hypocrisy, that is idealism. However, in a country, a nation, and in society, everyone talks about money and looks at money, which is utilitarian, vulgar, and even more dangerous.
Poetry and distance are dreams, distant, distant, unreal, and mysterious. It attracts a small number of people, in the ridicule of the majority, to throw away their comfortable lives and spend money to find guilt. These outliers are maverick, brave, resolute, thoughtful, and substantial. They are dreamers, but also practitioners! They talk about poetry, they travel far away, they drink freely, they love freedom, they are free. They don't care about worldly eyes and comments, they are who they are, they just want to be themselves!
Maslow divides human needs into five levels from lowest to highest, namely: physiological needs, safety needs, social needs, respect needs, and self-actualization needs. Those who love poetry, have dreams, and practice far travel are undoubtedly the highest level!
I don't see the ancients before, and I don't see the comers after. Thinking of the world and the world, I was alone and wept. "When I was a teenager, I couldn't fully understand Chen Ziang when I read this "Song of Dengyouzhou". Yes, in any era and in any environment, the sober and maverick are often always a handful of people, they are lonely, but they are also free!