A friend who works as a Chinese teacher in a middle school in Beijing asked me what books I could recommend to students. My first thought is "You should fly to your mountain like a bird".

The Taiwan Province edition of this book is entitled "Self-taught Life Growing up in a Garbage Dump: From Social Margins to Shock Education for Dr. Cambridge". It is a veritable inspirational book and a sparkling autobiography of a cow, which is very suitable for inspiring students.

But as an adult who has been immune and inspirational to chicken soup, I prefer the Chinese version of the title and the non-educational content in the book.

No wonder Taiwan Province's translation belittled the book. It is really that the author's aura is too strong and it is unreasonable not to market.

The author Tara,/kloc-had never been to school before the age of 0/7, and later passed the self-study exam and obtained a bachelor of arts degree in 2008. In 2008, he received a master's degree in philosophy from Cambridge University and a doctor's degree in history from 20/kloc to 0/4. In 20 18, she published this first novel, and you flew to your mountain like a bird. In 20 19, the book was named "influential person of the year" by Time magazine.

But in fact, no matter how amazing the author's life achievements are, simply indulging in words will also find its energy.

In fact, do we really study to find the way to success, or to find a shortcut to self-study? Not exactly.

If this book really describes how Tara found time to study, how to study, how to teach herself math, how to look up information, how to take notes, how to write a thesis, how to get into Cambridge, and how to complete her doctorate, as some people expected ... It is estimated that many people have questioned or vomited.

The translation of "You fly to your mountain like a bird" in the Bible itself leads us to another road. There are no successful solutions or inspirational quotes on this road, only the theme "love and redemption" contained in most fictional literature.

It seems a bit extravagant to talk about love in this book. I have read this book for a long time. Of course, there are reasons for its poor state, but part of the reason is that it is too bitter. You know, I used to like Kotaro Isaka, a sweet, fresh and enthusiastic uncle.

When I saw that Tara was imprisoned by an iron bar stuck into her thigh before she could fill the cab roof, she was almost buried in a pile of scrap iron. My father said that she had her own angel's blessing. When I saw that Tara was dragged to the toilet by her brother Sean and pressed against the toilet, when I saw that Tara was called a prostitute by her brother, she never dared to wear "indecent" clothes. When she was touched by a boy she liked, she could not control her escape. When I saw Tara struggling to save her brother with a little medical knowledge in a big trash can, when I saw Tara standing on the roof of Cambridge like herself, when everything had to hold the wall like others, when Tara was betrayed by her sister and regarded as a demon by her family, when Tara went to the light again and again and was pulled back to that dark family again and again ... I don't know why I have to endure this pain to read this kind of thing.

But I shed tears several times not because of these pains, but because of a little warmth in Tara's life.

Once, Tara told her mother that she would give up the exam: "of all my children, I thought you were the one who rushed out of here through the raging fire." I never thought it would be Tyler.-What a surprise.-Not you. You don't stay. Let's go, don't let anything stop you from going. "

Once Tara's father said when she was going to Cambridge, "If you are in America, no matter where you are, we can come to you." . I buried 1000 gallon of gasoline underground. When the end of the world comes, I can pick you up, take you home and make you safe. But if you go to the other side of the ocean ... "

Another time, when Tara joined the choir temporarily, she thought that if her father knew whether he would cross the ocean to hear her sing, her answer would be "yes"

Maybe Tara didn't write this book itself to pour out her sufferings and get the surprise of others. She is saving herself with words.

Leaving family of origin is a very, very difficult thing. How many people have never cured their childhood all their lives. In Tara's innocent family, going to the light means betrayal, and suffering with her family means loyalty. The biggest obstacle for Tara to cross the mountains and go out is not that she has no foundation to teach herself college mathematics, nor that she has to take exams every time in college, but that she has to struggle with her cognition for more than ten years.

Can't engage in sabbath study for work and study activities, wear clothes that can show your figure, take medicine to see a doctor when you are sick, take antibiotics, get vaccinated, go to school, and wash your body after work. ...

These seemingly ordinary things, Tara needs to try her best to fight against the cognition rooted in her heart, in order to have a little courage to think that what she has done is not wrong.

When she gradually left family of origin, she even seriously suspected that her departure was wrong, a betrayal and misunderstanding of her family.

It is learning and telling that makes Tara constantly pull herself, know herself and finally see her own light.

Tara called this process "education".

This is probably what we often say. Going to college may not help you learn a lot, find a good job, or earn a lot of money, but it makes you see many aspects of the world, realize many possibilities of life, and make your heart more substantial and firm. This is its value.

For Tara, education is not to get a master's degree or a doctor's degree, but to see that life is not just a can for the end of the world, a hard object that will hurt people if thrown in the abandoned yard, huge scissors that will make people lose their arms, legs and heads if they are careless with their hands, endless homemade essential oils, as well as history and philosophy, music and the world, love and beauty.

Education is more than finding a good job, earning a lot of money, wearing decent clothes and eating expensive meals. Its meaning is given by ourselves.

"You should fly to your mountain like a bird", and escape from the past like a bird; Embrace new beliefs like a bird.

I'm Luo Xiaozhai, a house girl who loves reading. I tell stories occasionally, hoping to entertain myself and others.