This stop is the library. Although it's close to home, it seems that I haven't been there for half a year since the outbreak in Spring Festival travel rush.
I checked my wallet and found my library card in it. I am very happy.
Along the boulevard on both sides, I happily walked into the sacred "temple". In the entrance hall, the staff took my temperature. I registered truthfully and naturally entered the library.
Borrowing books before, I was inexperienced, and often spent a lot of time looking for the books I was looking for in the sea of books on my own hobby, but found nothing. Finally, I have to ask the librarian to help me find it, which is very laborious.
Nowadays, with the rapid development of the Internet, it is almost a matter of minutes to find a book in a huge library. Just scan the official WeChat account of the library. You can master the collection number of this book through search, and then find it on the corresponding logo bookshelf by sorting the letters of the book. By the way, the efficiency is much higher than before.
The period for borrowing books is one month. If you can't finish it, you can renew it. Sometimes I think that I always have to return books, so I might as well buy one directly. Therefore, for a long time, buying books is more important than eating.
The bookshelves at home were so full of books, but later I found that after the initial enthusiasm for buying books, the new books were only put in my hand for a day or two, and then they were shelved in a corner of the bookshelf. I thought that with ready-made books, I could keep reading every day. Unexpectedly, I was covered with dust on the knife of years.
People are always crazy about investing time and energy in pursuit, but when you really get her, you will become less appreciative.
Yuan Mei once said in the Qing Dynasty that if you don't borrow books, you must read them. Therefore, I sometimes wonder whether borrowing books is better than buying books. We can force ourselves to read, or take notes and extract useful contents from books. In this way, even if we return the book, we will still gain a lot.
When I think like this, I suddenly understand how unbalanced my input and output are these years. I dare not realize that time flies, life is precious, knowledge is hard to come by, and my lover is tolerant and considerate.
When I walked out of the library with two books, When the Stars of Humanity Shine and A Lecture Every Day, I felt extremely relaxed and happy, because I seemed to see how precious my flashing thinking was at this moment!
——2020.05.28