Do you have your own spiritual hometown? How is your spiritual home built? If you have your own spiritual hometown, you will have a free soul. In this world, no matter how difficult, poor and down-and-out, you can still hold on and not be knocked down by suffering, but stand up from suffering and become stronger.
When I look at the old things in the south of the city, I am always infected by the faint sadness in the book. The whole book reflects on the sadness of life, along with children's snooping on human nature, savoring the parting of life and death and the growth in bitterness. The nostalgia for hometown and the aftertaste of childhood in the book are particularly exciting. As a geographical environment, hometown provides our initial growth environment, but it also lays a humanistic tone for a person's spiritual hometown or second hometown in a sense. Childhood memories are sweet and nostalgic even if they are sad. During her stay in Beijing, Ruth met a growing girl, Xiuzhen, and Ma Song's thief brother, which gave her the first secular experience and helped her achieve her spiritual home-the old story of the south of the city.
The construction of spiritual home is a sign of whether a person is truly free spiritually. People, like ants, are busy all day. This is also a topic that has puzzled mankind for thousands of years: who am I? Where is the land I come from? where am I going? Looking up at the starry sky, where will you finally return? Home is an eternal temptation for people. At the same time, home is also a combination of fantasy and reality. It can satisfy people's desire for warmth and release emotions. The nostalgia for people and things in hometown often becomes the germinal point of the second hometown of human spirit. The past in the south of the city is a portrayal of life in Beijing, which represents the homesickness of hometown culture.
People are actually exploring the "inner universe" while exploring the outer universe. This so-called "inner universe" is actually what people often call "spiritual home". The inner universe, like the outer universe, is infinite, always full of interest and endless exploration. Our life is full of contradictions and paradoxes. People are often afraid of strange things, but tired of familiar things, so everyone needs to build a spiritual home. In other words, it is our soul that needs a home.
In life, some people regard religion as a "spiritual home"; Some people regard helping others and giving charity as a "spiritual home"; Some people regard the pursuit of dreams as their spiritual home; Some people regard their nostalgia for something, such as hometown complex, as their spiritual home. In my opinion, the pursuit of life value is the spiritual home. Everyone pursues the value in his heart, confirms and respects it, and his mind will naturally calm down.
In the past in the south of the city, Eiko is the author's shadow. This book constructs the author's spiritual home, from time to space. In these memories, the author established a preliminary understanding of human nature, good and evil, friendship, affection and responsibility. Human beings are constrained by the environment, as well as the helplessness of understanding the secular and choosing to compromise. But also because of these, she grew up, as the song goes, "Outside the pavilion, beside the ancient road, the grass is blue? The evening breeze blows the willow flute, the sunset is outside the mountain, and the intimate friends are scattered. Life is rare to get together, just for separation. " The author internalizes her nostalgia for her hometown into a spiritual home, which nourishes her whole career.
Recalling childhood is often a way for adults to find a spiritual home. Childhood is like the back garden of adults' spiritual sustenance, and it is also a utopia in their dreams.
How to build our spiritual home, we must first ask ourselves "what do I want" and find what we really want, so that our hearts will tend to be calm. Then, with the support of this power, you will go forward bravely, and it will always give you enough strength in the same place until you get the freedom inside. It will take care of you and protect you. There is sincerity in China and ability outside. Every minute, you are building your own inner world. Your existence may be silent until you can't see it, but they are real.
In your secret spiritual world, your thoughts and beliefs will be repeated.
This spiritual home will make you work hard and sweat for it, and it will also be your ultimate personality. It will accompany you to compose all the songs of life in this world.
"The world kisses me with pain, and I respond with songs" is our belief in protecting our spiritual home.