Independence Starts from Traveling Alone
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"Backpacker's Solo Confessions, a Japanese Writer Writing in Chinese" - Why do people travel? To forget reality? Or do you have to face yourself? Arai 123, ever since he took his first long-distance train at the age of 14, he has wanted to venture out and fly abroad when he had the chance. She left her hometown and went to Beijing to travel around China, enter the labyrinth of Central Europe, see Cuba and Vietnam, and even immigrate to Canada to work in Hong Kong. What did she gain after traveling in different places for ten years? A true Tokyoite, Japanese is her mother tongue, and writing in Chinese is her way of healing herself. She is called a "cultural bastard" in Hong Kong. She has published seventeen books in Taiwan. Her friends in Tokyo laugh at her for being poor. She is dumbfounded. Why can't an ideal life just mean traveling, traveling, and traveling again? Back then, the brave and fearless girl, single-handedly, like a lonely planet, headed towards the border and the hometown of exiles. Prague belonged to Kundera, Cuba belonged to Hemingway, and Hong Kong belonged to Zhang Ailing. She spent the most money on air tickets, spoke the most foreign languages, and flew across the Pacific many times... In fact, what I really want to understand is happiness and freedom. Now the family's passports have been changed one after another, the dishes cooked include dishes from all over the world, and the suitcases are covered with immigration stickers. The long-distance travel in youth has been replaced by family organization. They still push the baby stroller and travel across the ocean with their families. Everything in life can be changed, but the original intention that cannot be changed must be, where to go on the next journey?
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