Recently I have been listening to Wellerman a lot, which is a 17th-century English sailing ballad. It describes the lonely and uncertain sailing life of the whaling fleet, and finally fights with whales in the vast sea, and no one survives. They have been looking forward to the arrival of the Wellerman. In fact, I am also waiting for a Wellerman. It will bring me sugar, tea and rum, so that I can continue to have the confidence to hunt whales.
You can look at time with fear and wait for its judgment, no matter whether it is right or wrong, win or lose. Making money doesn't make me experience happiness, but money has the advantage of making other people think you are successful. Substances can sometimes secrete more endorphins, giving people temporary pleasure. But endorphins are addictive substances after all, which can explain why when I was a child, a matchbox or a bottle of soda could satisfy me, but now a new car or an expensive gift gradually fails to stir up ripples in my heart.
Enterprising spirit seems to be a compliment to everyone, but the harvest obtained by enterprising spirit is actually very bloodthirsty. I have no doubt that as long as I continue to work hard, I will achieve higher achievements, but what I question is why should I continue to work hard? Many people work hard to improve their level, perhaps hoping to prove themselves, but I don’t want to prove myself in this way again.
I often encourage people around me to work hard, but in recent years few people have encouraged me to work hard. People who are more familiar will just hope that you will rest or give up when you are tired and unload the heavy burden. Although it is the result I want, I don't want others to tell me "If it doesn't work, then don't hold on."
Perhaps for most people, they are not used to being under pressure. To survive in this city, even if you don't need lofty dreams or ambitions, just hoping to buy a comfortable house in the city will cost you a lot. And this price is essential for self-improvement. Stand out from the crowd. And what we mean by standing out often requires cruel competition for resources.
I don’t hide that I wear a mask to survive, and I respond to different passers-by, guests, and friends. Nobility is not a gesture that must be displayed even when eating, drinking, and drinking. Survival has its own rigid needs, and most of the time I am just surviving. Masks can at least allow both parties to preserve some dignity after gains and losses.
If you focus on what is close at hand, your understanding of things will be limited to their appearance, like cicada wings or paper-thin barriers.
It is said that the balanced universe has been confirmed by scientists. In layman's terms, it is "countless selves at different points in time." Neutrinos shuttle back and forth among the stars. I am doing the same actions, the same life, the same genes and faces in another world, but I will never see or recognize it forever. After closing his eyes, he fell into silence.
At the end of September, I went to the Tianyan Fast base in Qiannan Autonomous Prefecture. This is a place I have always wanted to go. I drove more than 1,200 kilometers a day with fatigue, and I felt like I was escaping from this planet. Fast is the largest radio telescope in the world. Its purpose of existence is to build beacons and lighthouses for humans and build navigation maps for interstellar travel.
The night before arriving at fast, I had a dream. The dream was as follows:
I dreamed of an alien life form, and a man who claimed to have three eyes spoke to me a lot.
They belong to a higher-dimensional civilization in the universe. They are not carbon-based creatures, so their structural principles are different from humans. They call themselves three-eyed beings, based on silicon-based forms, so they are more tolerant to the effects of different environments than humans.
They can withstand extreme heat or the climate of extreme star systems, and can withstand strong gravity or vacuum states. They can even shuttle through black holes without breathing oxygen or eating carbohydrates. They can absorb minerals on different planets or asteroid belts and convert them into silicon elements to supplement their own energy.
Three-Eyed Life once also belonged to carbon-based organisms. However, due to the instability of carbon-based organisms, uncontrollable radical thinking, jealousy, paranoia, self-interest, insidiousness and suspicion will occur in the process of carbohydrate combination. With the development of their ancestors, more and more struggles and conflicts have appeared on the Three-Eyed Planet, and each era will intensify. Of course, with the development of Three-Eyed Planet technology, they built a super terminal, similar to our current super computers. The three-eyed people call it "the Tower".
This "tower" based on quantum silicon and electrical reactions was originally used to collect knowledge and innovation on the entire Three-Eyed Planet.
Creation, including self-evolving consciousness. Including the lifelong memory storage of each three-eyed person, the "tower" will also evolve itself. It begins to improve the three-eyed people who are originally carbon-based creatures, first from functionality, such as mechanically powered hands, feet or organs, to consciousness, such as the brain and genes. After tens of thousands of years of transformation, the three-eyed people have forgotten their physical body and carbon-based body.
As long as they are willing, they belong to eternity, neither born nor destroyed, neither dirty nor pure, neither increasing nor decreasing, neither illusion nor destruction.
Although three-eyed people can live forever, they do not love the world. It is very common for three-eyed people to actively choose to die because they feel that they have lived enough. Their friends and relatives will not be sad at all because the people around them choose to leave, and others will even be happy because of each other's death. When the three-eyed man passes away, he returns himself to the "Tower" and gathers his life's exploration, knowledge and wisdom into the "Tower". Since they are silicon-based beings, their wisdom and consciousness will not die when they return to the "Tower", but they will no longer be able to move. Living three-eyed people can communicate with deceased people in the "tower" through the third eye.
Three-eyed people use two eyes for communication and the third eye for conscious communication. When they communicate, they can independently control whether the third eye is open to the other party. If the third eye communication is turned on, the other party can see through their inner thoughts and desires. Without turning on the third eye communication, they can still keep their own secrets and hide them. They have basically developed the habit of keeping their eyes open, which will make it easier for them to communicate with each other and achieve a consensus that truly meets the intentions of both parties.
Even for things like creating a new three-eyed person, which is what we call "love", it is necessary to use the third eye to exchange consciousness, and a small three-eyed person can only be created after a real consensus is achieved. There will be no deception between them.
Three-eyed people have no concept of money, so the "Tower" created a brand new "trading medium" for them. This trading medium is a chip that is implanted in every three-eyed life when it is born, and a points counter will accompany the three-eyed people throughout their lives. When the third eye is opened it displays numerical values just like a display. When the three-eyed person performs an act of kindness, pleasure or contribution, the value increases. Mistakes, deception or hatred will cause the counter to be deducted. Therefore, there are also "rich people" and "poor people" among three-eyed people.
These points can be traded when both parties open the third eye, but the transaction will be transmitted to the "Tower" like a check. The "Tower" will judge whether the transaction is reasonable before finally agreeing or canceling the transaction. Due to the existence of "towers" and counters, the Three-Eyed People do not have huge and devastating disputes. Disputes as small as the Three-Eyed People's community and as large as conflicts among social groups have rarely occurred for hundreds of thousands of years.
The three-eyed people are very active in creation. They hope to get more points. The meaning is to redeem them. In addition to trading the points, they can also purchase interstellar exploration coupons from the "tower". They love exploration, and many three-eyed people hope to travel to more different galaxies, and even build their own resorts on some inanimate planets. As long as there is an unidentified planet, they can apply to the "Tower" for ownership of the planet as the first three-eyed explorer. And because the three-eyed people are silicon-based creatures, and they have undergone hundreds of thousands and millions of years of silicon gene modification, most of them are very kind. They do not want to destroy or transform the planet they own. They prefer to appreciate and visit it, and sometimes participate in the affairs of the planet they own in a small and invisible manner.
The earth also belongs to a kind-hearted three-eyed man who loves exploration. It is not rich and does not have many points. After a long period of hard work, it accumulated some points and redeemed them for exploration coupons. Then it embarked on a long interstellar exploration alone, came to the solar system, and discovered the earth. The entire solar system was discovered and declared by it, so it often shuttles back and forth among the sun, earth, Mars, Jupiter and other planets.
When I was near the fast, it happened to be helping the fast to increase the radio signal, and it discovered that I was traveling alone and in a hurry, so it fell into my dreamland. It thought I needed guidance, so it kindly shared a lot with me.
Finally, I asked it, after traveling and exploring for so long, aren’t you lonely? The three-eyed man asked me curiously: "What is loneliness?"