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发表于 2003-8-20 21:35:46
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向mawerick较劲,也写No227
It is almost a common sense that big cities are plagued with innumerous problems, known as city illness. The traffic jams, air pollutions, compact living spaces, noises, and extreme pressures for a living, to name just a few. But people are still rushing into cities from everywhere despite all these problems. I am also one of them, with a love-hate sentiment, I indisputably choose Beijing, a metropolis as my living place.
People living long in a big city often talk about a dream to change to a peaceful and tranquil pastoral life in the countryside. But a dream is a dream. If you really ask them to go and settle there, they would scramble to come back in a few weeks, or even days. Why? Because the rural town can not provide many convenience that one might not have noticed when living in a city. Wide-band Internet access, stereo system, cinemas, night clubs, or even restaurants that feature all kinds of foods. You begin to realize in a small town you have to walk to a shop, you have no air conditioning, you suffer a lot from mosquito stings at night.
I am fully aware of how heavy an urban life maybe, when you have to fight for an admission of a university, or an promotion in a company, or an increase of salary. Life does not seem to be at your command, but you are enslaved by it on a daily basis. Going to work on time every morning, sandwiched among passengers on a bus, hurrying to finish a new assignment given by your boss, and go home to cook dinner. But personally, I think the quick-pace life is worth it in terms of improving a person’s knowledge and experience of life.
Some witty people say the truth of life is going back to the nature, to innoncence. But I would suggest that if a person does not go through the stormy journey on the ocean of urban life, his coming back to innoncece is not the real understanding of innocence. Only a person who experienced the pains and suffers and ups and downs in a competitive world, when he grow old and retreat to peace, he would truly recogonize how precious the peaceful life in a small town is, and his simplified new life will has more meaning in it, not that of those uneducated people who know nothing more than eating and partying and playing cards as in some places in my home town.
So, let us be patient with the difficulties we encounter in urban life and face it up with confidence, because the urban life is rewarding before we are tired and feel like withdrawing into a simple life in a small town. |
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