In the cinema, we probably all encounter an unpleasant experience. In your concentration on sitting quietly watching the movie, you will suddenly feel the chair sitting underneath you shaking, moving very evenly, not to lift you out of the seat, moving very quickly, not to shake you to sleep, shaking fast and slow, just so you find him annoying. Probably a mild earthquake? The source of the tremor was detected left and right, and suddenly it stopped trembling again. Just when you’ve gathered your mind to continue watching the movie, the tremors come back. If you are determined to find the source of the tremor, you will soon discover that the problem probably lies in the thigh of a gentleman nearby. His toes on the front chair support, tense enough to use the elasticity of the hamstrings, very comfortable shaking there. We would have to forgive him if this constrictive movement was due to an outbreak of a condition such as sheep’s seizure, but unlike that, he was not foaming at the mouth. It does not look like a nervous breakdown, his movements are able to receive and send, when to make a break, command as desired. If you say that he is intended to make the front and back of the two rows of seat guests can not rest in peace, but also not. All strangers have no hatred, we stand in the position of the victim to see, this perverted behavior is only one explanation, that is, his will is too concentrated, forget that there are others next to him, in other words, is “as if no one In other words, the attitude of “no one is around”.
The spirit of “no one is around” is manifested in more than one end of daily behavior. For example, it is a common thing to be short of breath, “lack of breath is short, the body is tired of stretching. “But in the crowd, open the bloody mouth, as eating, the mouth of the fangs show, plus stretching arms and legs as the performance of Tai Chi, that look is inevitably scary. Some people yawn also with Music, the sound of whimpering, such as blowing horns, such as sounding the alarm, such as the ape cry, such as the crane cry, the sound and appearance, rituals, “sitting in the gentleman, the gentleman owes stretching, writing staff crawler, depending on the day flea Mo, the sitter please out. “is owed to stretch in line with the ancient rites, but also to “gentleman” The common man can not be invoked, to extend the arms and open mouth, even if it does not scare people, at least people think you are expelling guests, or that you can not control your own limbs.
There is an old man in the neighborhood who usually does not come Home much, but every Time he comes back, he will let me know. In the morning, there were three sneezes, not only crisp, but also loud and full of air. Based on the sound of the sneezes, I guessed that something must have entered my nose, or someone had inserted a paper twist, and the sound hit the basin with a golden sound! Then came the big scene of gargling, really a mountain of water, like a bone in the throat, and like a fly down the throat. And then followed by three meals of full diaphragm, a series of clucking sound, like the sewer is not very smooth. Unfortunately, through the wall did not see him picking his teeth, otherwise that a scraping and polishing of the drilling project, the scene is not too small.
All this “nobody’s business” performance is the occasional unexpected event, often annoying is loud conversation. When shouting for help, of course, the voice is not too loud, unless the neck is stepped on the bottom of the foot, but ordinary conversation seems to be heard to the extent that it does not have to be deafening. Physiology tells us that the organ of articulation is very complex, and there are 900 movements and a hundred tendons in a minute of speech. One foreigner suspected that our ear drums were born differently, and that the membrane was perhaps particularly thick, so that we could not hear them unless we pulled our necks and shouted, so that we always talked like we were fighting. How much truth there is in this criticism, I don’t know. But the ability of our countrymen to shout is something that no one can deny. When the lights go out in the movie theater, there are always a few “Oh, San, where are you? In the theater, the actors are like mime, the sound of gongs and drums is faintly audible, the main sound is the audience boiling, people feel like they are in the frog pond. In the hotel, as if the front and back are temples, until late at night do not want to sleep peacefully, after sleep inevitably no loud leather soles of large leather boots without shame in front of your door pacing around. Before dawn, there are various sounds of the city to intrude. A person speaks loudly, it is instinctive; whispering, it is civilized. In terms of animals, lions roar, wolves howl, tigers whistle, donkeys, dogs bark, even as small as earthworms, the voice is not small, not like people sometimes whisper. Probably the higher the level of civilization, the more speech is not to loud to see. The longer the habit of living in a group, the less likely it is to retain the illusion of “no one is around”. We are a farming nation, the countryside is sparsely populated, between the drains and the fields, whispering a “good morning” is not helpful, you must pull out your neck and shout “Have you eaten? The strange thing is that in densely populated places, people’s throats still can’t shrink. What is even more bizarre is that the paper donkey voice, broken gong voice, horn voice, cock voice, and is not generally considered a defect, and sackcloth phonetics also blatantly said that the voice of the main bright expensive!
Schopenhauer has a parable.
A group of porcupines huddled together to keep warm in a cold winter; but their prickly hairs began to stab each other, and they had to scatter. But the cold drove them together again, and the same accident happened again. Finally, after several gatherings and dispersions. They found it best to keep a considerable distance from each other. Similarly, the need to live in groups brought the humanoid porcupines together, but the unpleasant prickly hairs of their nature made them dislike each other. The distance they finally find to keep each other at peace is the set of manners; those who violate them are warned – in English – to keep a fair distance. In this way, the need for mutual warmth is only fairly satisfied; but they can keep each other from stabbing each other. Those who have some warmth of their own prefer to go far away, not to stab others, and not to be stabbed by them.
Running away is not the answer. We just hope that the porcupine in human form will remind itself from time to time that there are other people in this world besides itself, and I am not the only porcupine in human form, so it is better to collect its large and small prickly hairs, and not to stretch out its prickly hairs as much as possible like a peacock opening its screen.
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