Freedom and Me

Freedom and me

I will put “self”.

Understood as “freedom and me”.

To balance the process.

It is about shaping yourself.

Walk slowly.

Step into a piece of life.

Things I particularly like: filming. e-sports, horseriding. Probably because I feel very free when doing these three things.

Filming is a sense of freedom to become another person. For a few months. I can temporarily forget what I am like, live in another identity, and do things that I would never have a chance or would never do as myself. For example. Li Cu’s rebellion. Xiao Yan’s “forbearance”, and Chen Leyun and Lu Xiaobei’s plight.

E-sports is a sense of freedom to enter another world. In this world. the goal is very pure or even single, and the way to achieve the goal is also very simple. The victory or defeat depends on the proficiency and flexibility of skills, the accumulation of experience and teamwork. There are no complicated rules and invisible rules and regulations. In this environment the process of working hard for the goal is like a free performance. There are no audiences, but you let you play.

Riding a horse is my most personal freedom in the real world. I started to get in touch with horse riding and really fell in love with horse riding when I was filming. Man, who doesn’t like the heroic demeanour of galloping on horseback and admiring the country that he has laid down along the way? But in fact, sometimes it is not particularly enjoyable to jog for a short distance along the road set by the studio, back and forth. I think the horse must be this too. What do you think?

Until one time. I came to the prairie of Qinghai. Although I was riding a well-trained actor horse, the moment it stepped onto the grassland. I saw its original appearance. Horses belong to the grassland, and their nature is to run. In the vast expanse of the world, words such as those who travel thousands of miles every day, have a hard-earned BMW, and have succeeded in horses, have vivid explanations.

People riding on horseback will have a very broad field of vision. Seeing the endless grassland in front of them. I feel that at that moment. I also feel unprecedented freedom. Lying on the back of a galloping horse, the brain is completely empty, and only the senses are working. The eyes, ears, mouth, and nose are full of wind and irritation. The pressure and emotions are all gone, only the desire to run together.

Returning to nature, talents are complete. In the face of natural things, all human emotions and actions are just a grain of sand that is raised when riding a horse. The closer you are to nature, the smaller the person will be, and the parts that are blurred out after being magnified countless times are naturally complete. I will interpret “self” as “freedom and me”. The process of balancing them is shaping oneself. Those desires, instincts, and freedoms that had to be thrown away in the human world, and I were found back at the moment when they galloped with the horse.

I like running very much.

It feels good to be on the ground.

I also like riding horses, as if flying on the ground.

Flight with temperature and life.

Translation credit to  @wuleiarchive