You want to climb to the top of the mountain; you must put in the effort. You want to get home early; you must start your journey ahead of time. You have your ambitions, which certainly come with hard work. If you think carefully, you will understand that much of the pain was predetermined when you made your choices and decisions from the very beginning. Therefore, since the decisions are made by you, you have to bear the consequences. Everything you gain comes at a price, and every ambition that is realized requires gradual accumulation. If you want to see more, you have to climb to higher places.
Not long ago, I read a story about a fisherman and a rich man. The gist of it is that the wealthy man decided to give up his possessions and return to the fishing village. One day, the fisherman, who has lived in the village his entire life, saw the wealthy man and laughed at him for spending so much time and effort only to end up catching fish by the sea like him. The wealthy man smiled and said, “You are bound to be here your whole life, while I have chosen to return here.”
When you don’t have the capacity to see many things, when you can only drink plain water, you say plain water tastes good simply because you have never tasted anything else. When you have gone out and tasted better things, after drinking Coke and red wine, if you then say you like drinking plain water, it means you truly enjoy drinking plain water.
You climb high and walk far, not to be seen by the world but to see the entire world. The more you see, the better you know how to choose; the farther you go, the clearer you understand what you really want. The meaning of wandering is largely for the purpose of making choices.
Understanding oneself is more important than anything else.
Choices, once made by oneself, possess endless power. As long as it is a choice you made, you won’t complain, nor will you feel resentful.
As long as it is your own decision, and for yourself, you can bear all the consequences.
Every person who chooses to drift away from home feels this way. Some choose to stay; that is their final choice. Although it is hard, they understand that it is what they want, so they are willing. Some choose to return to the origin; in others’ eyes, their wandering seems futile and just a waste. Only those who have wandered will understand what their journey has truly brought them.
We accept hardships because of our ambitions. We are unwilling to settle; we want to see the world, we want to enrich our lives, so we distance ourselves from home, even choosing to start all over again. Admit it, your heart always has that restlessness, driving you to venture out, pushing you to pursue your dreams. Despite the twisted path ahead, you still choose to move forward.
I think that whether I choose to go home or stay in a strange city in the future, I am confident that I can live on my own strength. It doesn’t matter if circumstances are good or bad; these years of living alone have given me the confidence that I won’t starve no matter where I go.
Perhaps one day I will suddenly understand what I have been pursuing, just like my good friends. I believe this is the meaning of wandering. If we didn’t go around in circles, we would never know what is most important to us, nor would we ever understand what the so-called “origin” is.
Maybe you are like me, living alone in a strange city or even in a strange country, with only a few times to go home in a year, spending even less time with your parents. Perhaps you are also struggling with where to go in the future, contemplating what years of wandering and hard work mean for you. I believe you, like me, have gradually become calm and composed, able to view the difficulties of life more rationally and to understand yourself better.
Such things will follow you wherever you go; that is your own strength. Everyone's life has such a process, different yet somewhat similar. We have all hesitated while wandering, and we have given up some things for others. And it is precisely because we have given up these things that we come to understand how precious what we currently have is.
Step forward and go to the places you want to go; climb up to the heights you think of. The broader your view, the more at peace you become; the more you see, the better you know how to choose.
I think this is the meaning of wandering.
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