I have many reading habits, but there is one habit that I always keep, which is reading while standing.
Since the sixth grade, I can ride my bicycle into the city to get a haircut and shower. The place I usually go to after a haircut is the bookstore. At that time, there were only two bookstores in the county, one of which was Xinhua Bookstore and the other was also Xinhua Bookstore. Fangyuan Bookstore and Qunli Bookstore came later, and several more were added later. I haven’t been back for a few years and I don’t know how many bookstores there are in the county.
At that time, there was no place to sit and read in the bookstore. Even if there was, because I was ten miles away from the city, when I arrived at the bookstore, there was no seat for me. Then just stand and read slowly. When I'm hungry, I'm not in a hurry to eat. At that time, I was obsessed with martial arts. I would linger in the sports section for a long time and read books one after another. Many martial arts movements cannot be practiced and can only be memorized by force. It feels like my muscles and veins are unobstructed, as if Ren and Du's two meridians are opening, and then a breath rises vividly from Tianting point. Of course it's not that exaggerated, but a sense of inner joy. I finished reading a book while standing, and then when I had enough money, I bought it and kept it. When I remembered it, I took it out and read it secretly, hiding in a dark corner. I was thinking that my eyesight should have declined during that period.
At that time, the second reason why I stood up to read is now very funny. Because in the bookstore where I go to the city to study every week, there is also a girl who is about the same age as me. I go to school very late. When I was in sixth grade, I was already fourteen years old. I also admired outstanding girls, especially those who He looks extremely quiet and quiet, and you can tell from one look that he will be attracted to girls who love reading. Occasionally, when our eyes leave the page, we will look at each other, smile slightly, and then continue reading. I am a little narcissistic. As long as a girl smiles at me, I have ideas, but because of my cowardice, I rarely take the initiative to strike up a conversation with a girl. Seeing her standing, I stood too, for fear that I would get dirty if I sat on the clean terrazzo. What would she think of me? In fact, she may not know me as a person at all. Her smile, thinking about it today, is all my imagination, but she has developed the habit of reading while standing. It can also be known from this that many of men’s habits are developed under the influence of women. And I found that when there were many people, I could actually read the book, and when there were few people, I would make some small movements. This habit didn't change until I was in college.
Regardless of objective or subjective reasons, from then on, I liked reading while standing in bookstores, and even watched TV while standing. I often told my mother about this. In fact, this is a habit. Reading while standing will speed up your reading unconsciously. And I remember it very well. Many books I read at that time can be remembered for a lifetime.
When I was in college, I could be seen standing and reading in several bookstores outside the campus. Zhuangzi said that the shadow of a flying bird never migrates. Maybe a few years later, I will be studying in that small bookstore again, or a new flying bird will follow my shadow. Sometimes at night, in a small bookstore, a dance music plays from the clothing store next to it. It happens to be snowing outside. The owner of the bookstore is smoking a cigarette. The lights in the bookstore are dim. The book I am holding is old and yellowed. After expressing some thoughts about the book, I would stop and chat with him from time to time. When he was quiet, he would read and I would read too. The owner’s surname was Chen, and we still kept in touch with each other later, but later he stopped running the bookstore. When I went back three years ago, the street had been renovated, and the row of old houses had disappeared, leaving only a row of camphor trees. My shadow has become a dream shadow.
After I got a job, my days were not rich. If you go to a big bookstore in a big city, there will be a small cafe inside the bookstore, and there will also be soft music. Rich people will enjoy it and sit down to slowly sip coffee and slowly turn the pages of the book. But I could only go out and chew my own pie, drink a few mouthfuls of the cold water I brought with me, and continue reading while standing in the bookstore. At this time, I will think of the classic novel language "Kong Yiji is the only person who drinks standing and wears a long gown." Why am I not standing?
At that time, I would laugh at Kong Yiji's vanity, but when I think about it, why am I not the same? You are a cultural person, but you stand!
My mind is particularly sharp when I read while standing. Many good ideas come to mind while standing. Watching old gunfight movies, those bosses like to stand and move around when something happens. The spark of thought was ignited in conjunction with the inner movement. So a great invention was born, wow!
Later, I thought about it again and again, no! Reading while standing is not only related to inspiration. Reading while standing should be a kind of integrity. Reading while standing is a reflection of a person’s health and toughness. Reading while standing means not sitting down to read, not kneeling down to read, not lying down to read, and not reading while standing. Lie down and read, don’t read with flattering looks, don’t be led by books to read, be independent and free, don’t be a bookworm, but be an upright scholar, an upright Chinese scholar. I think I will continue to stand and continue reading, stop to the end, and become a station god!