Bi Shumin has a famous saying that he is very strong.

When I first saw Bi Shumin, I was taken aback.

In my previous imagination, 65-year-old Bi Shumin happened to be our father, a generation eroded by years and helpless to get old. But in Bi Shumin's eyes, I only see a healthy and energetic, but I can't see any traces of aging.

The eyes are the windows to the soul. These days, I have been thinking, what makes these eyes so clear and smart, and even retains the innocence of a girl?

Confucius said, "Sixty is pleasant to the ear, and seventy is satisfactory." It is not good to follow one's inclinations too much, and it is too difficult to feel real freedom. It was not until the age of 70 that Confucius really achieved the balance between the two and reached the open and pleasant realm of "not exceeding the moment".

So, what kind of life will you go through to have such bright eyes and reach such a full mental state in your sixties?

Many people believe that this state can only be achieved when things are abundant and everything goes smoothly.

However, Bi Shumin was born in an era when material resources were extremely scarce, but idealism still prevailed.

1952 10, Bi Shumin was born in Yining, Xinjiang. /kloc-at the age of 0/7, she is full of admiration for soldiers. She joined the army in the Ali Plateau in Tibet where the Himalayas, Gangdise Mountains and Karakorum Mountains meet, and she was bent on becoming a signal soldier.

Influenced by the heroic feelings at that time, she felt that the signalman who climbed the telephone pole was particularly handsome. Even when the telephone line is disconnected, she can hold the wire head with one hand and let the battle order be conveyed through her body. And a comrade-in-arms who sleeps in the bunk next to her, her ideal is to be a health worker and save lives.

But fate played a huge joke on them.

According to the order of bunks, they are assigned to different positions. Bi Shumin became a military doctor, but her comrade-in-arms who wanted to be a military doctor was assigned to the post of signalman.

Many years later, her comrades-in-arms became experts in the field of communication. Sometimes when she talks about the past, she still says, I still want to be a doctor!

Bi Shumin has been a doctor for more than 20 years.

If their bunks are changed, they are likely to embark on a completely different life track. However, life has no ifs.

I really want to do a job, but I'm doing a job I don't like. It is estimated that many people have encountered or are experiencing similar troubles. Maybe many people will give up their efforts, and some people will choose to compromise with reality, but Bi Shumin's choice is different from many people's.

From a health worker, an assistant military doctor to a military doctor, she spent more than 20 years sticking to this position, from never knowing to adapting and accepting, and then becoming an expert in this field.

In these 20 years, I know myself very well. Bi Shumin lamented that many people always talk about youth, passion and high spirits when they are young, but in fact, when they are young, it happens to be a painful stage. Idealism meets the cold reality, financial freedom, needs to make choices constantly and quickly, is subject to the external environment, is sensitive and impulsive, and cannot accurately understand the world and itself from a big level, so there will be moments of frustration.

But no one in this world is born strong, and the hard work is in vain. 1980, Bi Shumin jumped ship and returned to Beijing. She slowly found her new career direction, and she began to try writing. The books that enabled her to successfully realize the transformation —— from her debut novel "Kunlun" to her later masterpiece "Red Square" —— are all based on her early military career and come from her solid life skills for more than 20 years.

Some readers commented on Bi Shumin's works: "There is a plateau." Those contradictions in life have become the scenery in her life, blooming one after another.

In an exclusive interview with Youshu, Bi Shumin used this sentence to encourage young people in a confused period: "When you are young, don't be too eager to achieve spiritual freedom, but use this as a goal to hone your mental toughness, including persistence, including setting an unshakable goal, including being kind to the world. If you can keep practicing and accumulate bit by bit, in the end, you will find that you are stronger than before, your evaluation of the outside world is no longer so strict, and you are more confident in the world. "

Compared with many famous online writers who have just embarked on their life journey, Bi Shumin's life experience is obviously more convincing.

If Bi Shumin spent all her lessons in the first 20 years of her career on "not crossing the line" and being down-to-earth, then after becoming a writer, she became more and more "looking up at the starry sky" and moved towards the free state of "following one's inclinations".

When talking about a very happy topic, Bi Shumin's eyes sparkled and occasionally he gave a childish laugh. You can feel her heartfelt happiness and make people around you smile from the heart.

Now a popular word is called "girl's heart". There are different answers to what a girl's heart is. One of them is "no matter how old you are, your eyes will glow when you see flowers."

Bi Shumin wrote in the article My Favorite Woman: "I like women who love flowers. Flowers are the most beautiful scenery within our reach every day. From expensive roses to humble wild chrysanthemums. No matter where the flowers come from, no matter how big or small they are, as long as they are in full bloom, they are pleasant and beautiful. Most women who don't like flowers have turned their hearts into a barren black Gobi. "

There is another answer about the girl's heart: "The world is so beautiful, I want to meet the person I like and see different scenery."

In the course of life, the past is all scenery, and travel is one of the ways to reach the soul.

In the book "Life will eventually have a journey that touches the soul", Bi Shumin wrote: "While the sunshine is just right, the breeze is quiet. Before the flowers bloom, while it is still young. You can still walk a long way, and you can also say deep and deep thoughts. Look for paths, mountains and fields that have appeared in my dreams. " ?

That's what she said and did. In 2008, Bi Shumin was 56 years old. While other mothers were still worried about their children's marriage and immersed in the daily chores of their families, Bi Shumin and his son traveled around dozens of countries by cruise at their own expense, which lasted 1 14 days, realizing their dream of traveling around the world.

As Bi Shumin said, "You have to talk to the sun, moon and stars, talk to rivers, lakes and seas, shake hands with every tree, and be intimate with every grass, and you will suddenly realize that the universe is big, life is tiny, time is expensive, and death is near."

Bi Shumin doesn't like the phrase "a trip that has just left". In her view, this kind of travel is perfunctory and ungrateful, and real travel has its cause and effect.

When traveling around the world by boat, Bi Shumin and his son took the northern hemisphere route, focusing on densely populated Asia, Europe and America, only passing through Africa.

At that time, Bi Shumin had a plan to travel to Africa. She wrote mischievously: "Ben has decided to go to Africa once in his lifetime to pay tribute to this mysterious continent while his eyes are deaf."

An idea is like an orange seed. After this idea came up, Bi Shumin began to call the shots. Even when the editor requisitioned her manuscript, she would "say that in addition to sending samples, remember to pay the manuscript fee." I want to travel to Africa. "

At the age of 6 1, Bi Shumin is finally expected to travel to Africa. When she opened an African page and saw the sentence "This is an epic trip", her "girlish heart" flooded again and her heart surged.

A one-way ticket worth $20,000, a trip to face hunger, emperors, monks, lions and wilderness. In Three Wan Li in Africa, which recorded this trip, Bi Shumin presented the warmth and desolation, suffering and pain of this land to our eyes with women's unique compassion.

Bi Shumin said that the biggest feeling in Africa is why human beings originated in such a desolate place. So the primitive state of human beings is actually full of danger and struggle.

On the Weibo, some fans in Bi Shumin said that they especially liked the saying that "there are different levels of travel, a bit like when we go to the seaside, those who set foot in shallow water get fish and shrimp, and those who set foot in deep water get dragons". Excuse me, Mr. Bi, this trip must involve deep water, right? ?

She replied mischievously that this trip to Africa was to catch some hairtail in chest-deep water.

Two years later, out of another "orange seed", she once again embarked on a journey to Central and South America.

Compared with the blue cover of three Wan Li in Africa, The American Little Universe, which records the trip to the United States and just came out, is colorful and complements the passionate personality of Central and South Americans in tropical areas.

Compared with the slightly heavy theme of Three Wan Li in Africa, the tone of American Small Universe is like a warm little sun, which may also reflect Bi Shumin's mentality to some extent.

Bi Shumin once said: "Travel is a kind of learning, which allows you to see the world and different societies with a pair of baby's eyes, make you more tolerant, make you understand different values, and make you know how to love and cherish. Travel allows you to start a new life with another identity, make new attempts, and let you rediscover yourself. " ?

There is a saying in Mencius Li Lou: "An adult has not lost his childlike innocence." It means that a person with a childlike innocence is not as complicated as ordinary petty people think, so he can keep a childlike innocence and sometimes show it, just like a person with a childlike innocence. This may be the reason why Bi Shumin remains pure.

In My Favorite Woman, Bi Shumin wrote: "I like a deeply grateful woman who travels alone. I know how to thank my parents, but I don't blindly follow them. I know how to thank heaven and earth, but I'm not afraid. Know how to thank yourself, but not narcissism. Know how to thank your friends, but don't rely on them. I know that I have to thank every seed, every breeze, and I know that I have to get up early to sow and ride the wind. "

Simple and unpretentious, showing true colors and keeping simple, Bi Shumin became the kind of woman she loved. I also hope that all women in the world can live the most beautiful and true self.

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