Night

From the second foreign language class, I took the subway for the first time. The platform was empty and quiet, with barely anyone around, in a state of stillness. Suddenly, a loud rumble, and the train on the opposite side pulled in, followed by another loud rumble, and the train sped away, disappearing into the vast night. I don’t know why, but the train on my side didn’t arrive for a long time… waiting, waiting… until a light from afar appeared, accompanied by a rumbling sound. Sitting in my seat, I sorted out my thoughts for the day, thinking, and gradually came to realize that sometimes, I am actually very small, facing the many things in the world, the only thing I can do is to adapt bit by bit.

At Sihui East, it seemed like I had to transfer. I quickly got up from my seat and jumped out of the train car just as the doors were closing. Transferring to Line 1, “Dawang Road”, what a familiar station name, I had lived here for almost 10 years, and suddenly I had an urge to get off and stand alone on my old turf, looking at my “hometown” which had completely changed, in the night. Getting off at Jianguomen, when I got off the train, I saw a girl, we both looked up at the same time, and gazed at each other, but the train swayed, and we both lost our balance, stumbled, and the doors opened, and we went our separate ways. We had never met before.

Finally, following the crowd, I transferred to the loop line. My steps felt heavy, as if I had just woken up, and I seemed to have already become numb to this life, even though it was my first time trying.

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Back at school, I directly went to Qu Chen’s office, but Wei Zai wasn’t there either. I suddenly saw a webpage that someone else had made, and it was so beautiful, so nice to look at. I must never consider myself a great person. I thought to myself, there are always mountains outside of mountains, and people outside of people. There are always people who are stronger than you. I must study, study, and only by constantly surpassing others can I make progress. I felt a bit sad, a bit helpless. Leaving Qu Chen’s office, walking on the playground, it was already very late, but there were still many people running, constantly exercising, constantly surpassing, this is probably what they think. Gaocao once said that this is “against the laws of nature”, maybe he is right, maybe those who exercise are right. Any scientist will dream of being able to go against the laws of nature, but in fact, they are just exploring the laws of nature.

There’s nothing more to say, nothing more. I hope I can make a breakthrough~ (Full text ends)