Paradise at 28℃-Thoughts on Fiji

South of the equator, north of Australia and New Zealand, several island countries in Oceania are scattered in the endless blue of the South Pacific. Almost every island country manages hundreds of islands, large and small. Islands are the most wonderful cooperation in the world as the stars are to the night sky. Unfortunately, they are too far away from our daily life. If we don't take the travel brochure and browse the holiday plans online, we can't remember their existence.

Travel can be called an exercise to break away from convention. There is a bitter saying that traveling is to change from a place where you are tired of living to another place where others are tired of living.

However, what does it matter to me that others are tired of life? At the moment, the weather is neither too cold nor too hot, and the sunset shines on the calm and beautiful sea, with coconut trees and shadows, clear water and young sand. The 28-degree sea breeze gently blows on my face. This is my moment and my paradise.

Fiji's islands are tourist attractions that have been developed for a long time, but its scenery is still relatively rough, and there seem to be not many hotels and facilities that are exquisite to the extreme. We spent six nights in the outer islands of Nan Di, three nights in Mana Island, and drove for several hours just to get a glimpse of the capital. Except for the feeling that the capital is a city, other places are stubbornly lazy to maintain narrow roads, low-rise houses and the same natural scenery as hundreds of years ago.

Yes, just like hundreds of years ago, right? Beaches along the coastline, mountains, rainforests and caves on the island. The highest mountain in Fiji's main island looks like the side face of a supine, and the locals call it a "sleeping giant". The giant witnessed the changes since human beings moved to these islands more than 3000 years ago. I don't mind asking him if he can talk.

Maybe he will tell me that time in Fiji is slow. The locals kept their mouths shut and said, "Don't worry, Fiji time". It takes several years to build a house and open a road, and it takes two generations to build an airport. In Fiji, nothing is slow. In fact, in Fiji, nothing that human beings do is great. Nothing can compare with the natural environment on the island.

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I thought I finally understood the wisdom of some ethnic groups, especially the aborigines living in areas rich in food resources. They don't seem to be good at competition, cheating and using human and material resources to create. In other words, they are "not hardworking".

Perhaps this is the best arrangement and gift of the creator.

What a beautiful planet our earth is! A small piece of land surrounded by sea is called an island. Although it is so small, there are still mountains and rivers, fruits, animals and plants thriving. What about bigger land? Like Australia and New Zealand, there are many resources, but they are actually "islands" surrounded by the sea. Even on the continent of Asia, Africa and Latin America, isn't that vast land still surrounded by seawater, and the creator has given us the land to thrive? Humans living on the mainland can't see the sea in sight and forget this fact and our relationship with the earth.

Only on these small islands can we see the sea, which can remind us how lucky human beings are to rely on the beautiful ocean and everything on land to survive.

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Only a few thousand years ago, it was a very arduous and luck-testing task for human beings to migrate to their homes. It is impossible to confirm which country and era people first settled in Fiji. Scholars believe that there are some sources in the genes of Fijians, such as East Africa, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, Polynesia, and even Taiwan Province Province, the Philippines and Indonesia.

Why did pioneers come? What kind of suffering and casualties have people experienced before they finally succeeded in finding these paradise on earth with good mountains and good water but no poisonous snakes and beasts?

In short, lucky humans survived here, brought food crops, built shelters with their hands, and fished.

Eat, drink and rest, communicate with the same kind, and thrive. Human life turned out to be so simple.

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The indigenous people living in the tropical rain forest follow the laws of nature's jungle. Living in cities and modern society, we have built our own jungle with tools, knowledge and resources.

Our human jungle is getting bigger and more complex.

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The children's club in the hotel only takes care of the activities of children over 4 years old, and children under 4 years old need to be accompanied by their parents or local nannies. I met Charlie when I took Mulan to the children's playground. She is playing on the carriage with a China girl who is about two or three years old. Charlie is wearing a red T-shirt and jeans, thin and small, with straight black hair and a simple ponytail. Her brown skin should be the product of years of sun exposure, an Asian face. I think, which young China parents can "bravely" give their children to the nanny and go out for fun by themselves?

I greeted them in English and encouraged Mulan to play with the little girl. The little girl didn't respond to English, and then I heard Charlie talking to her in Chinese. There is a nanny who can speak Chinese, which I think is too advanced.

I borrowed a toy to play with sand from the children's club, and Mulan and the little girl soon played together. I chatted with Charlie and was surprised to find that she turned out to be the mother of the child. Moreover, she is a native of overseas Chinese in Fiji, and her ancestors came from Jiangmen, Guangdong. She works in the hotel. Today is her day off. Bring the children to play. Charlie can speak fluent Cantonese and Mandarin, and English is also very good. She used to work in New Zealand. In New Zealand, she met the child's father, a China student who tried to stay in a foreign country illegally. They got married, got married and he moved back to Fiji with her.

Fairy tales stop at "two people live happily ever after", but real life is always an endless test. Charlie let me know her story. In front of this stranger, she opened her heart and burst into tears, giving me the most painful experience and sincere blessing.

We met. We understand. What is the relationship between acquaintances? . Under the same sky, human emotions are interlinked.

Goodbye, Fiji.