August 2, "Waiting for Flowers to Bloom": Let life slow down and make life a poem.

This is a book about the road to dreams. It tells the story of a child who once dreamed by the sea.

The child was born in a remote village near the South China Sea and likes watching the sunrise. It's a long way from the village to the seaside. The child is thin and stumbling, but that doesn't stop him. Because, longing for the sunrise by the sea and the beautiful scenery along the way, he forgot these small bumps.

So, he finally reached the seaside and saw the sunrise he wanted to see. Fortunately, besides the sunrise and the sea, he also saw countless small white shells, Sha Ou jumping around, fiddler crabs crawling fast, stranded small fish and white jellyfish like stools on the beach. Barefoot, he printed a series of footprints on the beach and accidentally picked up a plastic soldier.

As soon as the sun came out, he watched the fishermen cast nets to pull fish, followed the grandfather who carried the pole to pick things up, strolled on the beach and thought about some strange problems.

And the question he often thinks about is: What kind of person will I be when I grow up?

I didn't think about it when I felt my head was big.

So, the child picked up a pig snail and drew an imaginary little soldier on the beach: running, fighting, dancing ... Maybe, will he become a painter?

Everything is unreal like a dream, and everything is full of dreams like reality.

The child dreaming by the sea has grown up.

He went to medical school for five years, but he didn't become a doctor.

The little plastic patient is long gone, but the dream of the seaside has been there.

He paints and likes it very much. But for a long time, no one thought he painted well.

But he never gave up painting. Many years later, he also traveled across the ocean to many countries, making cartoons, holding Chinese painting exhibitions and writing beautiful little books.

He also has a pen named Kobayashi.

Some people, in the eyes of others, live a hard life. But they don't care.

If you are not a fish, you will know the happiness of fish.

Obviously, Xiao Lin is.

Xiao Lin was born in the countryside, ten generations of farmers. My father is a middle school doorman, and my grandmother is paralyzed in bed all the year round. Xiao Lin's childhood was spent in hunger and helping grandma turn over.

However, the hardships of life can't stop Kobayashi's enthusiasm for life. He likes painting and is eager to see the outside world.

But my family is poor, and my family says how to draw will affect my study.

Kobayashi begged. Parents finally let go and said that if your academic performance can be improved by 20 per year, you can continue to draw.

Xiao Lin takes painting as a reward.

Parents don't give money to buy pens, ink, paper and inkstones for painting, but Kobayashi saves money from pocket money. Xuan paper is a luxury in Kobayashi's eyes. A brush is bald and I can't bear to throw it away. He didn't have money to buy a whole box of paint, so he only used three basic colors.

After growing up, Kobayashi still likes to use a bald pen for painting; With three colors, Xiao Lin can finish all the paintings.

Someone asked, Xiao Lin, why did you insist on painting for so long?

He smiled and said, "I didn't insist. Painting itself is the greatest reward in life, okay? " ? Why is it so utilitarian?

Inner joy is a reward. As for fame and fortune, it's just floating clouds.

So Xiao Lin can draw all his thoughts about life into the painting.

Those unexpected warmth in life, meeting lovely people, inspiring their own thinking, getting rid of the entanglement of troubles, being broad-minded about life and being patient with time ... all these are the themes of his paintings.

Not all the painters are Xiao Lin. He also likes reading and traveling.

Xiaolin's reading was not encouraged since she was a child. The family said: it's a waste of time to read textbooks and extracurricular books.

Kobayashi's enthusiasm did not diminish, but he still saved pocket money and went to the waste collection station to buy second-hand books by weight.

Shen Congwen's "Life in the Mountains" is only the first half, but his careful observation of life in a small town ignited his later photography hobby.

Cai Zhizhong's "Zhuangzi said" has also been torn off several pages, but it has become a cartoon model that Kobayashi has copied countless times.

Dr. Kinsey's sexology report was mistakenly bought by Kobayashi as a yellow book, which put him on the road of self-taught psychological rehabilitation medicine.

The vague paintings of Qi Baishi and Pan Tianshou on the back cover of old magazines became the enlightenment materials of Kobayashi's Chinese painting and calligraphy.

Before 18 years old, Kobayashi had never been out of his hometown in Zhanjiang and had never been to a restaurant for dinner.

When I was in college, my father helped Kobayashi choose a medical major in order to keep him alive. But my father still can't afford the college tuition. Therefore, the father and son dug fish ponds, raised ducks, and sold fish and ducks in the market to make up for their tuition.

After graduating from college, Kobayashi stayed in school to work with a monthly salary of 768 yuan. It is not enough to eat two boxes of lunch every day. Kobayashi stays up all night studying website design, taking orders everywhere, often until four o'clock in the morning, finding a place to have a snack when he is free, and then going to work with dark circles in his eyes in the morning.

Alive, Kobayashi also experienced most of the hardships like ordinary people.

Kobayashi said, "Life will smooth your edges and corners, but it will also give you sharp edges and corners."

Finally, after saving money to buy a house, Kobayashi began his long-cherished photography and travel. Although his trip is a "poor tour", all his photographic equipment is just a low-end digital SLR, plus a condom from 700 yuan. However, he felt the sublimation of his soul during his trip.

Kobayashi recorded all his experiences about food, reading, photography, traveling, writing and painting with his poems, paintings and that simple lens.

In his pen, food is "fireworks on earth, which caresses the hearts of ordinary people the most."

He talked about the raw seafood:

He said that the most common fruits and vegetables:

Even when he read the Book of Songs, it became a "delicious book of songs":

And, of course, three thousand years of undying romance:

In addition to the Book of Songs, there are Tang poetry and Song poetry.

Kobayashi said Tang poetry: "Moonlight became a poem, and I was drunk for a thousand years."

Kobayashi said Song Ci: "Do you know if Song Ci is full of autumn in your heart?"

Every town that stops is a safe place for Xiao Lin.

Jinxi: the hometown far away;

The world is so big, I want to watch it slowly;

Is Xiao Lin ordinary?

Ordinary. Like you and me, we are all mortal.

However, it is not ordinary. Unlike you and me, he turned his life into a poem. Because he has patience to wait for flowers to bloom, he has a smile to warm the world.

In the introduction of the author of Waiting for Flowers to Bloom, he wrote this way:

It takes a lot of patience and smile to wait for the flowers to bloom.

I hope you like the book Waiting for Flowers as much as I do.

Let life slow down and make life a poem.

(End of this article)

I have devoted my life to reading classic books, writing heavy words and living a profound life. I'm Du Doudou, thank you for your attention.

About the author: Du Doudou, who has been engaged in IT for more than 20 years, has studied English, computer, aesthetics and psychology. Debuted in his early years, and later worked for many world-renowned IT foreign companies. Now he works in a research institute. Bookworm is the code word of free-time code. He is also a signing author of several platforms, a member partner, a 10,000-volume good book studio and the founder of a 10,000-volume good book reading club.