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旅行重要还是读书重要?
One of my cousin, who is only 8 years old, often travels around the world with her perants. Others around her percieve that she is obviously more mature and independent than other children of her age. I believe that attributes to the travling her parents provide her. Actually, i have always supported that traveling is more important than reading books in order to understand the people and the world, and almost every year i would take at least one long-distance journey myself.
To begin with, most books are biased, either because of the author's own standpoint or because of the political force. That means what we acquired from
the books is not the fact itself, even is not true. Speaking to this point, i want to take the case of One of my friends who have traveled for almost a year till now, starting from the Yunnan province of China, accross Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, then getting to New Zealand. In the middle of the journey, she met many travelers from Japan. One day,She wrote a email to me and said: finally i realized Japanese is not like what we know from newspapers, books and TVs. And we are not what we thought to their eyes. We are biased against each other. If we never went outside, we would never know what the real world would be like and live in a world that is made up.
Another reason is that even though the books are objective, they are only one aspect of the world. The real world is far more diversified, complex than that in the books. You may have known from books that people are evil, are nice, or are great. But the real people mignt be so complex that any one book can not express. Just as the saying goes: the real world is more exciting than any fiction. The traveling is the best way to experience the real world.
Last but not least. When i was a child, i learned to wite the essay. Usually i liked to compared the lake to the Jade, so do many of my classmates. In fact i had never saw a real jade and a lake that is like a jade, i just copied that kind of sentence from the book. Many years later, I traveled to Tibet and saw the lakes on the plateau. Suddenly i recalled the sentence I wrote many years ago and finally knew what a lake that looks like a jade would be like. The traveling let me understand something that is only in the books before.
Certainly, the book has its own advantages, such as it is easier to get, we spend less money in reading than in traveling. However, traveling has more valuable merits as a way to understand the world and the people, it is more reliable, more realistic and more directly. So as for me, there is no any book that can replace the traveling to help us know the world and the people. |
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