Habit

A few months ago, my Israeli friend won a scholarship to come to China for a semester of Chinese. He sent me a list of optional schools for my advice. The top two on the list were Peking University and Tsinghua University, so I circled it with a red pen and said to him, "Why do you hesitate to learn Chinese? of course I go to Peking University." I couldn't do it if I wanted to. " He smiled: "unexpectedly do not recommend me to your school?" "of course, our school is also very good at Chinese, but Beijing has more resources after all." "I am worried that if I go to a big city like Beijing, everyone will speak English to me, which will not help me to practice my Chinese, so I am also considering whether to go to Shanghai or not." "I'm afraid there will be a lot of people who speak English to you in Shanghai. But if you want to go to Shanghai, you should go to Fudan. " He said he would reconsider with his friends. 

He told me a week later that he and his friends spent three whole days "doing nothing and collecting all kinds of information online to study air pollution in Beijing." In the end, his friend decided to give up the chance of a full scholarship to come to China, and he chose Shanghai Jiaotong University (which is said to be stronger in teaching Chinese as a foreign language). The boy who gave up the scholarship is the best in his class. He is a high achiever. It was a pity for the teacher to hear that he had given up, and I was sorry to hear it. "Don't go to Beijing just because the air is bad? So many people living in Beijing are not dead. I made some sacrifices for learning, classmate. " I joked with him, and I kind of thought these people were making a mountain out of a molehill. "that's you! You Chinese have been used to that kind of life for more than ten years, but it is not easy for us to adopt! I have respiratory disease. If I go to Beijing, I will probably die! " He flushed with anger and I was yelled at. Later, the boy who gave up the scholarship decided that the graduate student would study environmental science, believing that his knowledge would soon come in handy in China. 

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I also returned to Beijing from Israel, getting on the subway and getting off the sea of people in the haze. Having dinner with the elder sister who works in Didu, we talked about how many people spend four or five hours a day on their way to and from work, torturing themselves early in the morning and late in the night. "however," said the elder sister, "in their own words, these things are 'just used to'." "Why get used to it? Don't get used to it. " I shook my head firmly. 

Then I went back to Nanjing. Although I still feel the air is heavy, it is sunny in autumn, and I can even see the blue sky when I am lucky. Gradually I also thought: get used to it. For those who can fight for more freedom and can choose to live elsewhere, they certainly have enough strength to warn others: "never get used to this kind of life. Never lower your standards because of a society that doesn't deserve you." But for those who have been in prison all their lives, it seems that apart from "getting used to it", it is indeed difficult to find a more reassuring philosophy of survival. Thinking of being a guest at my friend's house in Israel, I helped her wash the tomatoes and she stood by peeling garlic. Talking about the Israeli government's restrictions on water and electricity in the West Bank, the girl was outraged: "Why can Israelis use water without scruples, while Palestinians are required to limit their daily water use?" As usual, she solemnly called me with her first name and surname and asked, "aren't they human beings?" Aren't they people like us? " I held the tomato in my hand and all I answered was the sound of water. The living conditions of the Chinese are certainly better than those of the Palestinians in the West Bank, but I am afraid they are not much better. Palestinians, Israelis, Chinese, Europeans, Americans. It's all the same, but it's so different.

Let's have fun at the end of the article: I anxiously told my French friends that there are now an average of 100 cancer cases diagnosed in Beijing every day (which may include those coming from other places for examination). He said, "I don't have it again." I say it's terrible. I worry every day. "you didn't get it," he said. I said the future is unpredictable, but I am very worried. "you don't have it yet," he said. Then I have nothing to say.