This theme has been brewing in my mind for a long time, but the initial decision to write this manuscript stems from an accidental touch.
One day last year, I walked to Qiushi New Village of Zhejiang University to handle affairs. Being in such a quiet and peaceful community, the whole person feels very comfortable.
So, I slowed down and took my time. During this time, I saw a car walking in the same direction as me. Its speed is very slow. I thought he was looking for a parking space, because he kept a car's distance from me, and I didn't care too much. I continued to walk slowly in the middle of the road where only one car could pass. When I walked out of the gate of the community, I found that the car also came out of the community and accelerated to Shuguang Road.
At that moment, I suddenly felt a little self-reproach, even more ashamed of my impolite behavior, and at the same time, I felt warm in my heart and lamented that the community residents in the university were all literate! In order to change places, the driver not only honked his horn to urge him, but I can even imagine the angry driver sticking his head out to scold me.
This experience can't help but remind me that in today's cities, neighbors get along. If everyone can be more understanding, more humble and more considerate, maybe life can be better!
The rapid advancement of urbanization has narrowed the spatial distance, but alienated the emotional distance. The former "neighborhood warmth" has become blurred and even more memorable. Everyone is feeling: now the building is getting higher and higher, the heart is getting colder and colder, and the feeling is getting weaker and weaker.
When I was a child, my family lived in Kesi xishan village in the southeast of Zhejiang, where the folk customs were simple and homesick. I remember when I was a child, people in the village visited each other with rice bowls, grabbed a chopstick at this house, tasted each other's food at that house, and chatted about their parents during the period.
Sometimes, when we go out with a bowl of rice and turn around, there are all kinds of vegetarian dishes. The feeling of "no responsibility" (translation: mutual arbitrariness and indifference) is beyond the city. Therefore, all of us peasant children grew up eating "a hundred meals", and our blood is full of deep affection and homesickness.
In a poor mountain village, which restaurant cooks good food, not only invites neighbors to taste it together, but also does not forget to send a copy to the elderly with inconvenient legs and feet. Whoever bakes wheat cakes, eats cake cones and cooks game, whatever can be regarded as a big dish or any unusual snacks brought from the "ocean" (translation: city) should be given to the elderly and children in the neighborhood. Each kitchen stove is a "public kitchen" for children. Anyone who wants to eat at home every day and who has something delicious can go home. Although there are not many dishes, you can feel the true feelings between the neighbors.
Those simple porridge and rice have long been in Shanliwa's bones, and we have inadvertently passed on this millennia-old way of getting along with neighbors.
In the impression of my hometown neighbors, I was an unusually naughty wild child before going to school. I played hide-and-seek with my peers in front of the house, jumped up and down in terraced fields, and dug traps in mountain village paths ... I did many funny things, but every time my neighbors' elders laughed it off like their own children, and even stubbornly thought that the "noisy guests" who could toss were smart children.
In my childhood memory, farmers are always open to children, because every child will make mistakes when he runs wild outside, and every child will always be tolerated and forgiven by his neighbors.
Old people often say, "A distant relative is better than a close neighbor". At that time, we grew up in a relatively free space and a relatively sincere environment. Everyone always has a good idea when dealing with people, and with the influence of the clan system near and far, we are all polite, seldom suspicious and seldom quarrel.
Sometimes, watching children with tablets now, I feel sorry for the "lonely growth" of their generation. When I was growing up, I had childhood playmates and teenage friends. Three or five of us rolled around in the mud until we were exhausted and covered in dust. Then you look at me and I look at you, making fun of each other's big faces.
Nowadays, people often complain that neighbors in the community ignore each other and say hello at most. So, are modern people "antique"? Are all neighbors "difficult"? Can't the new community cultivate the harmony and warmth of the old rural lanes?
The answer is no, of course. With people's infinite yearning for a beautiful home full of affection and nature, and the active creation of modern rural customs and homesickness, many communities have set up public activity spaces called "neighborhood centers" or "neighborhoods". Everyone is looking for, revisiting, establishing neighborhood feelings, and really bringing the distance between hearts closer.
At the end of 20 14, my family moved into the Tian Li International Building in the county. This is the beginning of a new life in our family and our new home. Here, everything is strange and everything is brand-new. At that time, my parents were doing business in other places, my sister was studying in other places, and I was working in other places. Every time I go home, I am in a hurry and have some sense of identity with the community.
I once came home from vacation and found that my neighbor's house on the sixth floor downstairs was being renovated. Say hello to neighbors on a whim. During the conversation, my neighbor told me that the quality of the sewer pipe configured by the developer was average, and he had replaced the sewer pipe in my bathroom with a good pipe when decorating. At that moment, I felt that the neighbors were really thoughtful, otherwise it would be troublesome to change when everyone moved in. One reason is that I am enthusiastic about my neighbors.
Once again, I came back from other places to stay. There was a row of benches in front of the residential landscape. Many uncles and aunts sat together in the sun and pulled them home, which seemed to make me find a warm "homesickness". When you see the warmth between neighbors, you will feel that the community is warm enough and have the mood to appreciate and enjoy the warmth of home.
After going back and forth to my hometown more often, I have several close neighbors who can say hello from a distance. A simple "back" greeting is very kind. Later, whenever I met a familiar neighbor, I always took the initiative to say hello. Even if I met a strange face, I tried to greet him with a smile.
When it comes to neighborhood relations, many of my friends are very emotional. "I miss living in the old home, and it feels good to borrow oil, salt, sauce and vinegar from my neighbors!" Nowadays, the new way of living at home makes the neighborhood relationship fall into an embarrassing situation of lack of communication and "ignorant neighbors separated by a wall", and the neighborhood relationship has gradually become a "nodding acquaintance" or even a "cat's eye sees the world".
How to find the feeling of "old neighbors" and "old buildings and old homes"? In my opinion, only with communication between neighbors can we understand each other, trust and entrust each other, and then accumulate sincerity. Maybe if you understand, the neighbors will kiss.
Not long ago, a touching story was reported in the news: 12 years ago, the neighbor of Liu Ruizhi, an old man in Nankou Road community, was sent to a community nursing home because of his advanced age. She asked her to help take care of her mentally retarded son before going out, and she agreed. For this promise, Liu Ruizhi insisted on 12 years, buying food, delivering meals, and even cleaning stools and toilets.
Such a typical case seems to be "respectable but impossible to learn", but we might as well start with such a trivial matter: water leaks from upstairs to downstairs, and everyone can solve it through consultation; I saw a lot of small advertisements inserted in my neighbor's house and helped clean them up in time; Neighbors are sick, help run errands and pay electricity bills; Take care of the children for the neighbors while the adults are away. ...
I have always believed that life has a temperature and people should always be warm. This sincere and pure emotion should not be limited to family ties. As long as everyone is more kind, more charitable and more generous, the warmth of the neighborhood, the warmth of the community and the warmth of the family will increase.
I am more stubborn that a warm community and a warm family will never grow into a lonely and selfish person.
May your neighbors be sincere and your house be full of warmth!
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