Today is the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, which is one of China’s traditional festivals - the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Chinese people also call the Mid-Autumn Festival the Reunion Festival. On this day, you can sit around the big round table with your loved ones and have a cheerful and lively reunion dinner. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon is also very round and very big, just like a big round table where the whole family sits together. Many Chinese people also like to go outdoors with their families to admire the moon after a meal. The scenery and the fun are very harmonious.
The difference between this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival and previous years is that this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day fall on the same day. What a blessing this is for those who are far away from home and rarely have time to reunite with their loved ones. Moreover, there is a seven-day long National Day holiday. These seven days are enough time for people who rarely get together to have a nice gathering.
In the evening, my parents and I went to my grandmother’s house for a reunion dinner. Uncles, aunts, uncles, aunts, and cousins... about ten members of the family sat around a large round table and had a lively reunion dinner. After the meal, the adults all chatted and played cards. I proposed to my brothers and sisters to go out and enjoy the moon, but none of them agreed and looked at me with surprise. My cousin and cousin said that they were too busy at work and wanted to go home early to rest. My cousin and cousin said that they were about to take the high school entrance examination and were nervous about studying, so they had to go home to review their homework. After a while, they all went home. Except for the adults who were "fighting" in the back room, I was the only one left in the living room. Looking at the adults having fun, thinking about the brothers and sisters who had already gone home to do their own things, and then looking at myself sitting alone in the living room, I suddenly had a thought: What happened to them? Maybe this idea is too naive, everyone has their own thing to do. But during this rare Mid-Autumn Festival, why not get together, talk, and have a chat?
I think about it, but as a big living person, I can't "suffocate" in this small space of more than ten square meters, right? So a man went out to look at the moon tonight.
While walking on the road, I was still thinking that there should not be many people on the street tonight, because in previous years the street was very deserted at this time. I walked towards a bridge alone and was startled as soon as I approached. The bridge is dark with people! Looking at the amusement park under the bridge, it is also crowded! They were either in groups of three or five, or in teams of seven or eight. It was obvious that they all came out with their relatives and friends. Are they all here to admire the moon? I really envy them for being able to come out and enjoy the moon with their family and friends. And I, walking alone among this lively crowd, suddenly felt a sense of loss, loneliness, and emptiness. I am like a lonely migratory bird in this crowd.
Standing on the bridge, holding on to the railing, looking up at the sky. The weather is not very good tonight. There was not a single star on the black sky, only a hazy moon covered by misty clouds. Without the stars, the moon seems particularly lonely and lonely.
Tonight’s moon is not very round. Is it really as people say, “The fifteenth moon is sixteen round”? People on the bridge were chatting lively, and few people looked up to admire the moon in the sky. Maybe the moon tonight is not very beautiful, maybe the enthusiasm for reunion has already drowned the lonely moon. I finally understood that those people were actually "drunkards who don't care about drinking." But I am different. I am the only one on this bridge who comes to truly appreciate the moon. So I will look at the moon, which is not very beautiful in their eyes, and appreciate the hazy moon. Although the mood is not very good, just like the moon that is not very bright. It's very windy on the bridge tonight. I couldn't help but shudder, and suddenly realized how deserted I was in this lively crowd. I don't dare to look at it anymore, I don't dare to stay here any longer. It was as if there was an invisible force driving me. Why do you feel this way? Maybe my lonely mood at this time can't resist this lively scene at all. I'm afraid that my mood, like the cold moon tonight, will suddenly freeze in this completely opposite scene.
I lowered my head and walked home quickly. Although I always passed by groups of people on the road, I never raised my head and looked up, because after seeing them, I would feel even more lonely. Finally, when I got home, I stood on the balcony alone and opened all the windows. But I found that the wind seemed to have become cooler and no longer had the chill. Look at the moon in the sky, it is still hazy. At this time, standing alone on a palm-sized balcony seems to be much more comfortable and pleasant than admiring the moon alone among the lively crowd. Otherwise, why would you feel that the wind has changed? After all, at this time, there was only the hazy moon in my eyes, and the whistling of the wind in my ears. I am lonely on the ground, and the lonely moon is in the sky.
Just like that, I stared at the sky and the moon in a daze for a long time. Suddenly I thought, since I am so lonely, why not look online? So quickly open OICQ. Wow, there are so many people. It is the first time in the history of my QQ that so many netizens are online at the same time. Alas, I can't find anyone to chat with in real life, and the deserted life in real life will completely change once I go online. Not long after it went online, I received greeting messages from many netizens, "Hello, happy holidays!" "Good evening, happy Mid-Autumn Festival!" "Hello, it is fate to be reunited here at this time. I wish you happiness, Happy!" I was really touched when I saw the messages of greetings and words of blessing from those lovely netizens.
Who said the Internet is illusory? Who says the Internet is ruthless? Aren’t netizens using this unreal and ruthless network to send out their sincere blessings? Doesn’t this illusory and ruthless network also bring you spiritual comfort when you need it most?
Soon, I joined the lively online world and had a hearty chat with netizens. An hour passed unknowingly, and the original lonely mood became much more comfortable. But the feeling of loneliness still cannot be completely eliminated. After all, I was still facing a machine. Although it had some "body temperature" at this time, the screen was still cold. Suddenly I thought of a question, so I sent it to a few good netizens. "Why are you online now? Why don't you chat with your relatives?" Most of their answers are "They are adults, they have their own things, and we don't have the same language." Oh, that's it. It seems that they are actually lonely deep down, so they go online to find someone to chat with. I remember that a netizen once said, "You only chat online when you're bored." Now that I think about it, this is really the case. Most of our generation are only children and have no biological brothers or sisters. Sometimes we are lonely in our lives, and there is very little language between generations. We can only satisfy our empty mood through the illusory online world. If the Internet suddenly disappears, we may not really know what to do at this time. If there had never been a network, what would we be doing? Facing the cold screen, I couldn't help but let out a wry smile.
Alas, lonely heart, lonely night, lonely Mid-Autumn Festival.