Photographers like to give orders.

I have a good teacher. She is Xia Lili, a beautiful young girl in guanxian.

What I have learned and experienced this year is enough for me to enjoy my life. Here I intercepted a passage from her and an article written in my diary. In order to motivate yourself to continue studying better. Active learning.

"Life always gives you something, not something, and I am deeply grateful for what I have. What has been lost or not yet gained is only occasional nostalgia and expectation. I always have my own way to go. Maybe this seems too much, but life is not a constant construction and demolition, I just take the initiative to meet the challenges of life. Embracing change is more leisurely than being chosen by change. "

I think everyone who loves books has a big or small bookstore dream. Imagine that you can sit in the book city and have tea and chat with friends in the warm sunshine. This kind of life is very comfortable. In this impetuous society, reading seems to be a luxury. Under the test of life, the dream of bookstore has gradually left us. Until it is selectively forgotten by a tired brain. It is really gone forever. Fortunately, I can still see some people holding on to this dream and planning to put it into action. Fortunately, I can still take part in this operation. Make dreams come true.

I have always believed that reading has great energy. Especially young people nowadays. Modern education only teaches us to compete and kill, and only by reading can we learn to live. Learn to face yourself. Learn tolerance and understanding. After some things, I was disappointed in this university. It became a carnival, vanity fair and arena. I can't scold a person angrily. I just hope that everyone can calm down and read some useful books, and then think about what attitude they should take to face all kinds of situations we encounter. This is a kind reminder, not a moral sermon. After all, I am also a young man full of anxiety and fear.

Before writing this diary, I quoted my "favorite pupil" Wang Xiaobei's diary today. In the afternoon, we met, and he shared with me some information about his work in NGO. I assigned him something he needed to do in the next bookstore.

I met Beckham in the winter of 2008. Shortly after I planned a "creative market" for Kuanzhai Lane, I decided to leave Chengdu for Yunnan because of the impact of the financial crisis and the reduction of magazine investment. I found some old things before I left, and I plan to sell them in the market. I gave away a postcard I bought in Macau for the goods I sold. I always provide a booth for free in the market. As long as I look pleasing to the eye and take whatever I like, I will also send an extra postcard this time. There are always people in front of the booth. He stood at the periphery of the crowd and looked around my booth. He came to chat with me, mainly to introduce himself, like photography, travel, where to study and so on. I sent him a postcard, which means we know each other.

In the autumn of 2009, he asked me for my mailing address online and said that he would send me a postcard. Soon, I received a letter with a doll card with big eyes and a piece of paper with few words. The slightly immature handwriting on the paper tells the heart of a lonely teenager obliquely. Suddenly, it reminds me of myself many years ago. When I think back to the way I saw him in the market, I think this child is different from other children because of his silly smile and awkward hands. There should be some stories.

/kloc-in the spring of 0/0, I came back from Shanghai and planned to make a "work of art" about it in the factory to be demolished. I suddenly want to share it with him. Because, I remember I once felt a "strong curiosity about the world and others" in him. This curiosity is not peeping, but wanting to go in and communicate, so we talked so much when we first met. Moreover, he once expressed the hope that he would have the opportunity to learn some news and writing knowledge. This time, I will definitely take him. Ask him, it happens that his studies are not heavy, and he only needs to take classes occasionally, so he is willing to volunteer to work with me and photographer Mark for more than two months.

I don't know what he observed, learned, felt and thought in those two months, but I'm also glad to see that he has become more and more proficient in using the recorder, sorting out the recording and asking questions on his own initiative. He asked me some questions, and I didn't tell him directly, but told him which book or whose book he could read, so he remembered it, and then he read at my house when he didn't start work, which obviously benefited from this common training. The decisive factor is his self-training. The most fundamental thing in education is to teach people to learn and train themselves.

After seeing his progress, I recommended him to an NGO project officer and won him an opportunity to serve in Yongsheng, Yunnan. There, he translated the letter written by the sponsor for the funded children and went to the countryside with the staff to interact with the children in rural middle schools. He said that this experience made him know more, and also promoted him to think about what life is all about and how to spend it.

I've always wanted to open a bookstore, the kind that people can read for free, or a reading room. The plan of this matter is that after 40 years old, I imagine that I have accumulated a certain amount of wealth at that time, and I would rather go back to the factory to guard a small bookstore, welcome everyone to read books, and occasionally give some extracurricular tutoring to my children. But in recent years, I began to face the fact that "maybe I will die tomorrow". If you die tomorrow, you must have no regrets today. With such a mood, I race against time to do everything I want to do. From Lijiang to Shanghai, back to Dujiangyan to do oral history of paper mills, to open a bookstore now. Beckham gave me an inspiration, that is, I just need to make a "kind reminder" as much as possible, even if I am misunderstood, even if I will do everything. As long as one person benefits, what I do is meaningful, or I have completed my mission to this world.

Beckham's appearance prompted me to speed up my steps. His thoughts on life and his present objective conditions are willing and allow him to become the first volunteer in The Last Month Of Summer Bookstore. He likes reading and is willing to share with others. Through oral history planning and work training organized by NGOs, he has a certain ability to work, and he hardly needs to attend classes next semester. So I won't wait any longer.

I'm lucky because I know exactly what I'm doing. I am lucky, because my lover has been supporting me and doing my best. I am very lucky. After my friends knew what I had done, my old school friends donated their treasured books, friends who met after a long separation donated a big bag of books, and even some strangers bought new books for the bookstore. In Douban, the activity of "Postcards for Bookstores" was launched, which was also supported by many bean friends. Many emails written by Douyou are warm-hearted words. All this gave me great encouragement. Because of this trust and support, I have a clearer understanding of how to implement the bookstore step by step, so that it can become an entity one by one, and let it send a kind reminder to one frightened and confused young people like a dim light in the dark night.

There are a lot of my own words for next time.