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If you believe in yourself, you can do anything

Action does not necessarily bring happiness, but without action there is never any happiness

By Lista ReamPublished 3 years ago 5 min read

The meaning of food and scenery is not to escape, not to hide, not to acquire, not to record, but to change your world view in an environment beyond your imagination, and from then on slowly change what you really feel important in your heart.

I have a friend who went to the Philippines with me. After three days, he became very familiar with a local indigenous man who was doing BBQ. Both of them sucked at English, but they communicated to their hearts' content every day with a vocabulary of 400 words or less.

He asked the native: "Whyareyousoblack?"

The native replied, "Why?"

He said, "Becausethesunfuckyoueveryday,miehahahahaha..."

The native threw red-hot coals at his crotch.

I want to seriously introduce this friend because next you will follow him to learn common English conversation.

He's not very tall, so we call him Shorty. His wife thought the name was too common and should be a bit more modern, so she added a suffix and made it very high end, calling him Five, which sounds like a smartphone only used by the upper class.

On an international flight, there was a little fat foreigner next to him who kept crying. The little fat boy's blonde mother couldn't coax him, so Five put his arm around him and started singing a lullaby.

"Cry...Cry...Cry...Die!"

The blonde mom was so shocked that she dropped her milk bottle.

When he arrived at the airport and crossed the border, Five, a short pussy, took advantage of the staff stamping his visa to ask: "Doyouknowwherewecandongcidaci?"

Everyone thought it was funny, so they lined up at the back and ignored him.

Filipino girl blinked, he asked again: "Youlooksdon'tknowdongcidaci, alas, Doyouknow...knowwhere delicious chicken wings? Chickenfly snapped Likehands snapped ......" We laughed at the back of the line.

The Filipino girl still blinked, speechless.

Feeling bored, he pulled out a ten peso coin, dropped it on the counter and said.

"Surprise!"

Cypress you! You'll get arrested and shot like that, right?

On the boat, he quietly asked his best English-speaking friend how to eat well in the Philippines.

The friend thought about it and said, you must learn a sentence in English: Keepthechange.

The short forced Five as a treasure, deep sleep.

When he got off the boat, he saw a hat and was offered fifty-five pesos, he fought back and returned the price to forty-five pesos. Then he took out two twenty peso bills and a five peso coin, a total of forty-five pesos, and handed it to the boss's wife, saying seriously: "Iloveyou,so,Keepthechange.

Iloveyou,so,Keepthechange. You love her, give her a hundred pesos, okay?

In the evening at the White Beach bar, he started to pick up girls.

And his target is also a foreign girl.

He smiled smugly and pointed to the ocean and said, "Go,goahead,-and-turnleft. "Gotohell!" He instantly danced around, singing and dancing wildly, happy as can be.

I pulled him back and shouted, "What's wrong with you?"

I couldn't resist slapping him.

This is how Shorty Five met the barbecue natives.

We were wandering along the pier when we came across a BBQ stall with a topless, muscular owner.

ShortyFive was thrilled and asked everyone, "What's the word for strong?"

I said, "I think it's Strong."

He ran over to the boss with gusto and said, "Youaresos...s...s..." to everyone's nervousness.

He finally remembered and shouted happily, "Stupid!"

Everyone flops down.

He raised his arms again and proudly said, "Metoo!" and the boss pounced.

We went to the sea program the next day.

We all decided to play flying fish for a thousand pesos each, and then beach bikes for two thousand pesos each, and discussed whether this would cut the price and send us a sailing tour worth five hundred pesos.

The idea seemed a bit difficult to narrate in English, so Shorty Five volunteered to communicate.

He took our money, ran over for ten seconds, and was back in a flash.

He said proudly that it was done in one sentence.

We were shocked and asked, "How did you cut the price in one sentence?

He said, "Keepthechange."

Keep the change!

On the third day, on Friday, a stage was set up at the beach and a big Filipino star was going to sing.

It was packed with people, so we went to join the fun.

When the Filipino star raised his hand, the crowd roared; when the Filipino star pressed his hand, there was no sound.

The Filipino star looked down at the stage, and despite the fact that he didn't know Five, he continued to scream, jump wildly and wave his towel. The big star pointed at him and shouted, "Whoareyou?"

Shorty Five shouted wildly: "Youaresos...s...s..."

We were so shocked that it was too late to cover his mouth.

Shorty Five screamed again: "YouaresoStupid!"

We hurriedly withdrew, sneaking away from the crowds of silent people.

In the background, there was an even more excited shout from Shorty Five: "Iamhappy!

When we left the Philippines, Shorty Five suddenly said, since we all want to travel around the world, we must speak a little English.

I thought, "Damn, your little bit is too little.

The short pussy Five said, even if I can speak little English, I will still fight for all the opportunities to travel. Because I do not want to be as sad as before.

Short pussy Five said, food and scenery, can resist all the world's sadness and confusion, this is what you told me.

I nodded my head.

The short force Five said seriously, I figured it out. The meaning of food and scenery is not to escape, not to hide, not to acquire, not to record, but to change one's world view in an environment other than one's imagination, and from then on slowly change what really feels important in the heart.

Even if I have to go back in a few days, still working, still noisy, still upset, but I have a new view of the world.

Even if nothing has changed, at least, life is like a book, and mine has a few more colorful pages than others.

This is the meaning of travel.

humanity

About the Creator

Lista Ream

I'm a photographer and I'm going to bring you my experience

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