Some time ago, I posted an article "Poetry and Distance" on WeChat, which caused many WeChat friends to sing.

I wrote like this: I don't yearn for and envy the so-called poetic life, maybe I haven't reached the age of yearning. I always feel that life should be balanced, and the vulgar taste of rice, oil and salt is the reliance and confidence of poetic life. There are some beautiful scenery and roads, just passing by. Those "open rooms are full of fresh fog and clouds" and it is enough to experience hair in a circle of friends once in a while. After all, the real practice is on earth.

Every time I read articles about poetry and distant places, I always think of my 20 years old.

When I was 20 years old, I was as ignorant as I was. One day I stayed in the office and felt bored. With a steady salary, we stay in a small square every day. At that time, we brushed QQ space, just like today's WeChat circle of friends. We first looked at other people's moods and feelings every day, and then constantly changed our personal signatures. It seems that only the "signature of personality" can make us temporarily forget the "impersonality" in life.

This life lasted for a long time, and I began to think about going to that "distant place". At that time, couch surfers were very popular, and the post of volunteering in Lijiang had a high click-through rate on Douban. In some sleepy afternoons, like taking physical chemistry class in junior high school, I used my working hours to check a lot of recruitment materials of volunteers in Dali, Lijiang.

I had the urge to go out for the first time.

Until I transferred to Tibet, I didn't even have the concept of Tibet before, and I didn't know Lhasa.

I decided to go to Tibet almost without hesitation. Some people may go to Tibet because they know its beauty, but I just think it's far away. I chose Tibet because it is farther than Lijiang and Dali. At that time, I was young and willful and resigned directly from my boss. My boss talked to me and gave me a month's paid vacation.

Having never been far away, I took the salary of the month and a bunch of messy luggage and set foot on the train to Tibet.

Having no money to fly, I took a 55-hour train to Tibet and stopped in Xi 'an for two days to recharge my batteries. At that time, the spread speed in Weibo was not so fast, and all kinds of tourist posts were not so popular. So Tibet is not as well known to us as it is now.

After I went to Lhasa, I lived in Xianzu Island by the Lhasa River. The owner of that inn is Brother Kun. The people who live in the inn come from all over the country. In addition to some tourists who come to stay for one or two nights, some people stay in the inn permanently. What does it mean to be a permanent person? People who travel abroad for a long time live in Lhasa to kill time. They are famous in social circles, and their pictures and some "poisoned chicken soup" have attracted some fans in Weibo.

Almost all of them are young people, mostly after 90, and have lovers. 65 years old, 438+05, don't study, come out to find people far away. Their lives are very irregular. They usually sleep until the sun rises, then grab something to eat, bask in the sun, take photos, sell small commodities on street corners, and then drink beer and highland barley wine in Lhasa bar at night and sing folk songs. Until the early morning, I slept again.

The inn is not clean, and the messy environment is in sharp contrast with the blue sky and white clouds. There is so much dust and debris that even a untidy person can't stand it. Only when the sun shines in and sprinkles on the national sofa in the living room can people feel lazy.

At this time, if you send a post with a filter picture to Weibo, it will definitely attract many fans' praise. And these, in my opinion, were really pretentious at that time.

I'm tired of doing nothing in Lhasa for a few days. Because I don't have much money, I can't go to any really beautiful places in Tibet. I can't go to the beautiful scenery that needs to be chartered. And at that time, I went to Tibet because a bunch of problems in my life were not solved.

At that time, I realized that if you want to travel happily, you must have confidence. That kind of self-confidence is money and enough satisfaction with one's life, rather than worrying about one's work and life after fleeing the so-called distant place and returning to reality.

Practice is not a trip, and traveling is not an escape. Travel is just a trip. In your heart, you can experience everything you want to experience.

Then one day, I bought a shawl in Bajiao Street, took a selfie and posted it on QQ Space and Weibo. Many people asked me to buy him one. I suddenly smelled a business opportunity.

In the later days, I was hardly idle. I rolled around in the shops selling shawls in Bajiao Street, and finally chose the most affordable style, negotiated the lowest price with my boss and started buying. Years later, Weibo and WeChat began to become commercial platforms. I really regret that I didn't stick to this business opportunity at that time, otherwise I might make a fortune today! )

Going to Tibet is my happiest time.

Although before this, I saw the afternoon sun shining on the Lhasa River, the water along the river turned blue, and the small stones sparkled under the reflection of the sun and water, I was also very excited.

Although it is going to rain cats and dogs, I am still very excited to see a large black cloud coming down near the Lhasa River.

In the bar in Lhasa, my friends and I were drinking highland barley wine and spitting smoke rings. I am also excited when I sing loudly in the almost empty street.

But that kind of excitement can't compare with the valuable and fulfilling excitement when I "work".

Only at that time, the sparkling stones in the sun by the Lhasa River, or the almost low clouds, and the folk songs coming from the bar at night were more attractive.

At that time, I found that when people are young, premature comfort is actually a waste of time. It will consume your enthusiasm for the world and make you look at the beautiful scenery every day, but still feel the emptiness of life.

Later, I changed hotels and symbolically went to some places around Lhasa. On the day I was about to leave Lhasa, I went to the market to get the last batch of goods, contacted logistics and packed them back to Guangzhou. I left the contact information of the shawl seller. After coming back, I cooperated with my friend's business, Weibo, and took hundreds of shawls one after another.

I earned back all my travel expenses. At that time, for me, the meaning of going to Tibet became making money.

Later, traveling to Tibet became a fashion. Almost everyone said they would go there to turn over a new leaf, and hitchhiking on the road seemed to be a very awesome behavior. It seems that the whole people are asking young people to leave your life. Beautiful scenery and roads are what young people should have. So I was thinking, is this a real trip? If you really want to travel in the future, which way should you choose?

It suddenly occurred to me that I should choose a dignified way, or I should really feel and know my friends without obstacles, or I should really enjoy it with my family and friends. Instead of being a dangerous hitchhiker, not repeating the same idea from one tired place to another. Instead of going to a strange place, take some beautiful photos and send them to my circle of friends. Instead of doing nothing to escape from real life. Instead of making yourself a person who stands in a beautiful scenery and still feels empty inside.

Only in this way can you make friends who really inspire you and truly find the meaning of traveling.

As a matter of fact, I haven't met any friends who have been drinking and eating in the inn. But when I really experienced the beautiful scenery, I made friends who really gave me insight. They asked me to study with them in my later years. In them, I saw another possibility of life.

So later, I no longer just wanted to sit in a cubicle, but looked for more possibilities.

At this time, some people may say that I am still young and have no savings, but I really want to travel while I am young. I feel the same way. I know that if we don't do something, we may never be in the mood to do it again. Just like now, I would never have the heart to spend so long going to Tibet by train alone, and if I hadn't gone then, I wouldn't have met my later mentor.

Let me say an internet sensation, Molly. People who care about tourism and Weibo may be familiar with her. The year I paid attention to her, her Weibo fans were only 70,000. She just graduated from college that year, and her graduation trip happened to be Vietnam. Later, I used my talents, such as writing articles, Taobao, purchasing, and even being a photography assistant, just to follow me to strange places.

In 20 12, she took tens of thousands of dollars she earned at that time and traveled around the world with her boyfriend. Because Molly has a certain fan base and knows how to promote herself through other social platforms, she is also a beauty and attracts many people's attention. Along the way, she never stopped making money, but worked hard. She knows the significance of her visit. She put her feelings into words and later received many commercial advertisements. Of course, her fans have also become more than 2 million. What followed was that she was sprayed by netizens in various ways. People think that she can only travel poorly and should not make money by traveling.

I followed her silently and then left her a message. I said I would always support you, a self-reliant girl. In my opinion, Molly's success is her own efforts. In fact, she was very business-minded when she was very young. Her trip didn't cost her parents money, but she was braver than us. She just knows the cost of traveling, which needs to be earned by herself. As far as she is concerned, she knows very well that the trip she wants is not pretending. She has goals and no goals, only us readers.

Therefore, if we really want to find and experience a distant place, it is essential to have our own skills or abilities. We can only exchange what we want through what we have, because a dignified life is an exchange. This exchange is not a derogatory term, but a basic rule of life in the adult world.

When I was 20 years old, I suddenly realized that I had actually managed my life very well, and everywhere I went was poetry and distance. No longer let those who use inspirational slogans influence themselves casually, and no longer be deceived by useless chicken soup articles and tourist articles to find themselves.

Until one day, we really travel instead of escaping from life. Those poems and distant places are the real poems and distant places.