On a cloudy day, I spent the old days on Sky Island.
This is my second year in Taxkorgan, and I have been emphasizing the time, just to prove that I still like it here, just like the first time I saw it.
Four years ago, I resigned and started backpacking alone. Like all wanderers, wandering around is just for a certain moment of heartbeat, which makes you feel that you have found your destination.
It is true that it is easier to get this kind of heartbeat on the road than in the two-point and one-line work. Some are illusions and some are wishful thinking. In any case, all your current feelings belong to your experience. Yes, it is a kind of reality that is difficult to disappear.
Last night, when the youth hostel was having a lively barbecue, Jonny and I were devastated by a sudden cold and had to go home early.
Jonny is a friend I met when I traveled along the coast of Guangdong last year. I came to his hometown in the deserted winter season. I had an appointment to meet him when I watched a film festival in Xiamen. I didn’t wait for him because of a bad cold. I had a cold again. Ah.
The second time I went to Nan’ao Island, he hurried over to meet him. In a narrow alley in a small fishing village in Nan’ao, I passed his car. After passing by, I felt it was him, so I stopped and called him, and it turned out to be the car I missed just now.
We went to a small restaurant in the county to eat seafood, and the beer was served in a washbasin, which was full. We sipped the wine with the stories of our respective journeys, and chatted very happily, without any restraint and embarrassment that should be present when meeting for the first time.
The friends I met on the road, because they have common interests, always make the gathering natural, just like two converging rivers, flowing from different trajectories, experiencing different seasons, different scenery, and different There are nine twists and turns, but when they meet, they are equally magnanimous and free.
Interesting souls will always meet, this is probably the setting when the system was initialized.
When I got home, I found that I didn’t bring the key, so I climbed over the wall and was admitted to the hospital.
In fact, my wooden gate has long been in disrepair. The door lock is nailed with two small nails. They look like two leftover lollipops. They have no resistance at all, and they can be easily kicked with a light kick. open, but I don’t want to destroy my own door.
Although it has been weathered and rotted a bit, I have repainted it and painted a pattern on it, so I love my gate.
This made me more convinced that Taxkorgan is a place where you can stay open all night.
Jonny was already on top of the wall.
I guess he hasn’t climbed over the wall for a long time. Will it remind him of his childhood experience, or this time’s riding journey, when he felt satisfied, when he was upset, when Enjoy, when crashing.
When riding a day of wind, sun, and body aches, seeing a lake is the kind of heartiness when you jump into a swim regardless of everything. The kind of anger when the bicycle is blown down by the side wind and then it is difficult to move when the headwind blows the bicycle down and then puts the middle finger to fuck everything.
In fact, most of the time he didn’t think about anything, he just focused on keeping himself from falling off the wall.
Entering the house, turning on the lights, boiling water, and drank a cup of cold medicine in the kitchen like drinking. Slumped in the sun room, waiting for the friends who are still continuing to barbecue in the youth hostel to go home.
Sky Island has received many friends. They traveled thousands of miles to be with me because I chose this remote small county. They overcame their fear or prejudice towards southern Xinjiang, came to the place where I live, and felt with me. Everything in Tajik.
I like this kind of long-lost group life, there is always someone to talk to, someone to laugh, there is always music, and there is always beer.
Although they come and go, but I know they have not gone far, we will always meet again on the earth.
Traveling will make you tolerant, interesting, and emotional, and it will also make you restrained, no longer showing off an experience, no longer eager to express, you seem so peaceful, but I know you are observing and perceiving.
I saw a passage from Zhou Zuoren in Lily, which is used for the ending.
“In addition to the things we need for daily use, we must also have some useless games and pleasures, so that life can be interesting. We watch the sunset, look at the autumn river, look at flowers, listen to the rain, smell the fragrance, drink wine that does not quench our thirst, eat Snacks that don’t ask for satiety are necessary in life.”
