Cao Shengkang: He was blind at the age of 8 and decided to travel around the world at the age of 35. What is his current situation?

"If you can't see the world, let the world see me." When people suddenly hear this sentence, they will feel a little confused about its meaning, but to say that it is an appeal from a blind person has a lot of meaning. Sightseeing for the blind may be something that people don't understand. If you can't see the scenery along the way, it will lose its meaning. However, Cao Shengkang, a blind man, did not believe in this evil. Despite his family's opposition, he decided to stop traveling around the world in the 27th year of blindness, because what he wanted to do was to feel the world with his heart and understand more things from the "perspective" of the blind, and finally he successfully crossed 34 countries on 6 continents.

Cao Shengkang was born in an ordinary rural family in Huaibei, Anhui Province, but his quiet life was changed by a car accident when he was eight years old. At that time, Cao Shengkang was playing by the roadside, and a very fast tractor directly hit him, which seriously damaged his eyesight. Doctors can't tell their families that Cao Shengkang will probably be blind in the future. This sudden blow makes the whole family fall into sorrow.

After that, when Cao Shengkang was studying at school, he felt that he couldn't see clearly. He always looked at the big words on the table, and in a few years, he was completely blind. The complete darkness often made Cao Shengkang feel afraid. This is a kind of fear about the unknown. Cao Shengkang had to stop studying at home, and his family didn't have the money to send Cao Shengkang to a special school for the blind.

Faced with this situation of son, people in rural areas still hope to raise their children to prevent their old age, so their parents gave birth to a younger brother to Cao Shengkang. In Cao Shengkang's view, his family gave up on him, and he was often insulted and laughed at by children because of blindness, which made him very miserable and thought about committing suicide countless times.

After growing up, Cao Shengkang still faces an ideal problem, that is, survival. His father once wanted Cao Shengkang to learn erhu or fortune telling, so as to at least make a living.

But Cao Shengkang is not willing to live like this all his life. He thinks he can live a better life. He insists on listening to the radio when he can't see anything, which helps him to understand more knowledge and seize the rare opportunity of free blind massage teaching at the age of 19.

With this skill, Cao Shengkang successfully found a stable job, but he was still unwilling. With the victory of the country's Olympic bid, Cao Shengkang came to Beijing Sport University in the hope of learning to run and participate in the Paralympic Games, and finally won a medal successfully. Since then, Cao Shengkang has started his life in Beijing, and he wants to prove that the blind can win as well.

Slowly, Cao Shengkang's business grew bigger and bigger, and his craftsmanship became more and more sophisticated. The blind massage shop opened five branches, but unfortunately, his small shop was also involved in the financial crisis.

This news made Cao Shengkang depressed for a long time. In order to relax, he set foot on the train to Lhasa alone. Unexpectedly, this tour made Cao Shengkang feel unprecedented relaxed and free. He climbed up the Potala Palace with a cane, and at that moment he felt that the world was at his feet.

After coming back, Cao Shengkang seems to have found his confidence in a wonderful life again, and he also fell in love with sightseeing deeply. He reopened the massage shop with all his savings.

Even if he started again, he was full of hope. After his business started to a certain extent, Cao Shengkang used his leisure time to travel all over the country. In five years, Cao Shengkang visited all the provinces in the country and said the inspiring words: "If you can't see the world, let the world see me."

After completing this stage, Cao Shengkang's ideas became bolder and bolder. Once in a while, he heard the introduction of windsurfing on the radio, which filled Cao Shengkang's enthusiasm, so he quickly signed up for windsurfing and won the prize in the windsurfing competition. These unexpected victories made him more courageous and thoughtful, and soon Cao Shengkang began to plan to die and travel around the world.

This idea was opposed by family members at the first time, because although Cao Shengkang has also had travel experience in China, after all, everyone is from China, and they will give some help to the blind, and they can handle many things with the same words.

However, it is not easy to travel smoothly in a foreign unfamiliar environment, and the risk is too high. But Cao Shengkang has always been a man with great ideas. After he had a plan, he began to prepare.

Not long after, Cao Shengkang took a trip from Yunnan to Laos with several donkey friends, and started the first stop of his tour around the world. The trip to a foreign country made Cao Shengkang both excited and flustered, but what he didn't expect was that the trip was not smooth.

Less than three days after his departure, the donkey friend abandoned him because he felt that he was burdened. Cao Shengkang, who had only 4, yuan in his pocket, had to seek the assistance of foreign Chinese all the way to the capital of Laos.

Cao Shengkang's sense of well-being is not easy here, and the problem of speech barrier is first presented. He only knows a few slightly bad English words, and most of his communication with people depends on guessing, and he has to follow his breath to find out the price of food only by touching the boss's gesture.

Even if you want to find a central toilet, you have to untie your belt, but Cao Shengkang didn't give up. He has experienced much more difficulties and can't give up because of this twist.

In the end, Cao Shengkang spent 24 days traveling all over Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, and the cost was controlled at around 4, yuan. This was undoubtedly a difficult but successful tour. From then on, Cao Shengkang became more determined to travel around the world and made a more detailed tour plan. His relatives and friends around him were very convinced of Cao Shengkang. Although he was blind, he did many things that normal people could not do.

In the next four years, Cao Shengkang traveled to 34 countries on six continents, including India, the United States, Australia, France, Chile and Tanzania, and people from many countries extended a helping hand to him.

For example, some people will enthusiastically help him dismiss the crowd who are looking for novelty, some people will actively help her buy tickets, and even when she is sick, there will be well-intentioned people to take him in and take care of him. These people have made Cao Shengkang feel warm and truly kind, regardless of national boundaries.

I have encountered twists and turns, but the beauty along the road is something that Cao Shengkang cherishes more. During the tour, he often takes pictures of the scenery with his camera, but he can't see it. However, the scenery recorded by the blind man's "perspective" has a different style. Although all the tours will be finished, this fantasy on the road will never stop. Even now, Cao Shengkang will make some travel plans for himself.

Many people will complain about their own lives, but in fact, compared with some unfortunate people, we have been too lucky. At least compared with Cao Shengkang, we can still see flowers and trees green. We should know that the little things we don't care about are the wonderful things that others can't expect.