<p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><b>第一部分</b></p><p class="ql-block">兩個月前，我們在距離里約熱內(nèi)盧市中心約一百公里的薩夸雷馬（Saquarema）買下了一塊一萬五千平方米的土地。它坐落在一片寬闊的山坡上，上方是主屋，下方靠近大門的是看門人的房子。</p><p class="ql-block">隨著地勢抬升，土地穿越了一系列微氣候。</p><p class="ql-block">最底部，是一片平坦、干燥的熱帶原野，我們的雞在這里自由活動，也適合種植蔬菜。再往上，地形逐漸柔軟，變成了一片郁郁蔥蔥的果樹林，以及一片生機勃勃的香蕉園。更高處，是點綴著棕櫚樹的草地，通向主花園和泳池。而在主屋之后，土地最終融入了大西洋森林（Mata Atlantica）——原生森林，陰涼、濃密、充滿生命。</p><p class="ql-block">背靠森林不僅能避開酷熱，還能俯瞰整片樹冠，遠處是連綿的群山。這里，毫不夸張地說，是天堂。</p><p class="ql-block">一個擁有地下水的天堂。</p><p class="ql-block">三十多種果樹。</p><p class="ql-block">野生鳥類——包括會來我們噴泉喝水的巨嘴鳥——還有偶爾停下來注視我們玩耍的小猴子。</p><p class="ql-block">這兩個月來，我們一直在學(xué)習(xí)這片土地。清理、修整、塑形、傾聽。構(gòu)想它可能成為的樣子。每天都會有新的發(fā)現(xiàn)。好奇心與辛勤勞動，慢慢把“令人不知所措”縮小成“可以應(yīng)對”。</p><p class="ql-block">馴服野性，一次決定，一次揮刀，一次發(fā)現(xiàn)。</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p> <p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><b>第二部分</b></p><p class="ql-block">與此同時，我也在為我在中國的學(xué)生組織教育性質(zhì)的背包旅行。最近，我聽到的評論異常熟悉：</p><p class="ql-block">太危險了。</p><p class="ql-block">這個世界不穩(wěn)定。</p><p class="ql-block">綁架怎么辦？詐騙怎么辦？新聞里那么多恐怖故事。</p><p class="ql-block">這正是我們買地時聽到的同一套說辭：</p><p class="ql-block">蚊子怎么辦？</p><p class="ql-block">蛇怎么辦？</p><p class="ql-block">那么遠的距離，那么多工作，那么大的付出，值得嗎？</p><p class="ql-block">但就像你走出去馴服土地一樣，你也必須走出去馴服自己的內(nèi)心。</p><p class="ql-block">恐懼在抽象中滋生。</p><p class="ql-block">而現(xiàn)實，一旦你親自面對，往往比想象中理性得多，也回報得多。</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p> <p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><b>第三部分</b></p><p class="ql-block">我們今天的教育體系，起源于英國的工業(yè)革命時期，目的是培養(yǎng)順從的工廠工人。而這個結(jié)構(gòu)至今幾乎沒有改變，盡管大多數(shù)人早已不再在工廠工作。</p><p class="ql-block">因此，許多學(xué)生選擇“躺平”，從一個不再適合他們的系統(tǒng)中抽離，并不令人意外。就像現(xiàn)代新聞媒體一樣，這些系統(tǒng)從來不是為了幫助我們理解世界而設(shè)計的——它們被用來塑造行為、感知和情緒。</p><p class="ql-block">人們是能感覺到這一點的。他們本能地察覺到了問題，于是開始 disengage（抽身、冷處理）。</p><p class="ql-block">但他們卻并沒有積極地擁抱替代方案——不同的學(xué)習(xí)方式、生活方式、工作方式、探索方式。</p><p class="ql-block">他們不敢走進森林采摘果實，只因為害怕蚊子。</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><br></p> <p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><b>第四部分</b></p><p class="ql-block">這里有一個建議：</p><p class="ql-block">關(guān)掉電視。</p><p class="ql-block">如果你討厭學(xué)校，就離開它。</p><p class="ql-block">抹上驅(qū)蚊水，走出去清理你的土地。</p><p class="ql-block">把那片土地——無論是字面意義上的，還是隱喻意義上的——變成天堂。</p><p class="ql-block">走出去，馴服你的內(nèi)心。</p><p class="ql-block">通過直面現(xiàn)實，把恐懼縮小到一個合理的尺寸，看清世界真實的樣子。當(dāng)你真正去接觸它時，你會發(fā)現(xiàn)，在噪音、標(biāo)題黨和警告之外，其實并沒有多少值得害怕的東西。</p><p class="ql-block">給它時間。</p><p class="ql-block">給它努力。</p><p class="ql-block">世界會向你展現(xiàn)它的美與溫柔——就像我們買下的這塊土地一樣。</p><p class="ql-block">與陌生為友，收獲它的果實。</p><p class="ql-block">當(dāng)你正面相遇，野性就會變得柔軟。</p><p class="ql-block">去生活。</p><p class="ql-block">要大膽。</p><p class="ql-block">要勇敢。</p><p class="ql-block">要真實。</p><p class="ql-block">這是你唯一可靠的替代方案。</p><p class="ql-block">無論你是在汗流浹背中塑造屬于自己的土地，還是背著背包漫游陌生的原野與城市——從長遠來看，這都遠比躺著不動、害怕某天某地可能發(fā)生在你身上的事情，要輕松得多。</p><p class="ql-block">要大膽。</p><p class="ql-block">要勇敢。</p><p class="ql-block">要真實。</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p> <p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><b>Part I</b></p><p class="ql-block">Two months ago, we bought a 15,000-square-metre property in Saquarema, about 100 kilometres from downtown Rio de Janeiro. It sits on a vast slope, with two houses: the main house perched at the top, and the caseiro’s house down by the gate. As the land rises, it moves through a sequence of microclimates. At the bottom, a flat, dry tropical field where our chickens roam and vegetables can be grown. Higher up, the terrain softens into a lush fruit forest and a thriving banana plantation. Beyond that, a grass meadow dotted with palm trees leads to the main garden and pool. And past the main house, the land dissolves into Mata Atlantica — native forest — cool, dense, alive.</p><p class="ql-block">Backing on to the forest offers refuge from the heat and gives a breathtaking view across the canopy to the mountains beyond. It is, quite simply, paradise. A paradise with its own groundwater. Thirty varieties of fruit. Wild birds — including toucans that drink from our fountain — and small monkeys that pause to watch us play.</p><p class="ql-block">For two months now, we’ve been learning the land. Cleaning, clearing, shaping, listening. Designing what this place might become. Every day reveals something new. Curiosity and hard work slowly shrink the overwhelming into the manageable. Taming the untamed, one decision, one cut, one discovery at a time.</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p> <p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><b>Part II</b></p><p class="ql-block">At the same time, I’ve been organizing educational backpacking trips for my student groups in China. Lately, the comments I hear are familiar:?It’s dangerous.?The world is unstable.?What about kidnappings, scams, horror stories on the news?</p><p class="ql-block">It’s the same chorus we heard about our land.?What about the mosquitoes??What about snakes??What about the distance, the work, the effort?</p><p class="ql-block">But just as you go out to tame the land, you also go out to tame your mind.</p><p class="ql-block">Fear thrives in abstraction. Reality, when met directly, is far more reasonable — and far more rewarding.</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p> <p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><b>Part III</b></p><p class="ql-block">Our current education system was designed during the Industrial Revolution in England, to train obedient factory workers. The structure remains largely unchanged, even though most people no longer work in factories.</p><p class="ql-block">Unsurprisingly, many students are “l(fā)ying flat,” checking out of a system that no longer fits them. Much like modern news media, none of it was actually designed to help us understand the world — it was built to shape behavior, perception, and emotions. </p><p class="ql-block"> People can sense this. They feel it instinctively. And so they are disengaging. ?Yet they don’t jump at alternatives — different ways of learning, living, working, and exploring.</p><p class="ql-block">They won’t seek the fruits of the forest, for fear of the mosquitoes.</p><p class="ql-block"><br></p> <p class="ql-block"><br></p><p class="ql-block"><b>Part IV</b></p><p class="ql-block">Here’s a suggestion:</p><p class="ql-block">Turn off the TV.?Leave the school if you hate it.?Put on mosquito repellent and go clear the land.</p><p class="ql-block">Turn that land—literal or metaphorical—into a paradise.</p><p class="ql-block">Go out and tame your mind. Shrink your fears to a reasonable size by seeing the world for what it actually is. Meet it directly, and you’ll discover that beyond the noise, the headlines and the warnings, there is very little to fear.</p><p class="ql-block">Give it time. Give it effort. The world reveals its beauty and its gentleness—just like this block of land we bought. Make friends with unfamiliarity and reap its fruits. The wild softens when you meet it face to face.</p><p class="ql-block">Live your life.?</p><p class="ql-block">Be bold.? Be brave.? Be true.</p><p class="ql-block">It’s the only solid alternative you have. Whether you’re shaping your own landscape while dripping in sweat, or wandering new pastures and cities with a backpack on your shoulders, it is—over the long run—far less exhausting than lying still, afraid of what might become of you somewhere, someday.</p><p class="ql-block">Be bold.? Be brave.? Be true.</p> <p class="ql-block">想跟我們旅行旅行的年輕人可以直接加<b> Kel 老師的</b><b style="color:rgb(57, 181, 74);">微信</b> ?? </p>