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Updated: 5:15 p.m. Sun January 19, 2025

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傍晚从外地出差返沪，虹桥高铁站打车回家。

司机是个四十多岁黝黑邋遢的中年男人，车门打开，一股浓烈的烟味扑鼻而来，看来是个老烟枪。车子开出地库，一股寒风钻入，请他把车窗玻璃关上。他说我车子烟味大，关窗你不介意吧。我说我更愿意暖和点，说罢戴上耳机听音乐。

行程过半，见他跟我挥手示意，我摘了耳机。他说咱们聊会天吧，开了一天车了，有点累，有点无聊。我说当然可以。

他问我是干啥的？我说在设计院工作。他问哪里的设计院啊，我说在浦东。他说浦东哪里。我说世博园。他说知道的，是不是以前在浦东南路搬到现在这个地方的？我说你可以啊，这你都知道。他说我们开出租的，过程中会积累经验，什么时间段，哪里有可能拉到活。所以知道你们设计院经常加班到晚上十点多钟，不少人会打车回家。你们这个职业也累啊，也是经常加班。我说在上海，要想生存，哪个行业不累，不都靠加班多挣点辛苦钱嘛！他说是啊，不过最近你们加班打车的人不多了，看来也是受市场环境不景气的影响吧。客人是我们的衣食父母，整个社会经济是一个大系统，一荣俱用，一损俱损。我说你这思想境界可以啊。

我问他开白班还是晚班，他说是一个人开白、晚班，每天开到凌晨两点左右，坚持不住了的话，找个偏僻路边睡上四五个小时。最近连着好几天都只跑了四百多元左右的毛收入，每天还要交三百元的“份子钱”，这个日子确实不好过。但是不好过也得过，为了家庭，为了生存，只能自己多辛苦点，坚持下去，希望有好起来的那一天……

我挺佩服他的坚忍，有时候普罗大众的生存智慧，也具有质朴的积极意义。有这样一句古语：百样生意百样难,只有讨食过清闲。这世上的人，大都过着“为五斗米折腰”的日子。为生存，为发展，为家庭，为公司……，梦想还在，动力就在。

I returned to Shanghai for a business trip and took a taxi home from Hongqiao Railway Station in the evening.

The taxi driver was a swarthy and scruffy middle-aged man in his forties. It seemed that he was an old smoker, because when I opened the car door and a strong smell of smoke hit me. As the taxi drove out of the basement, a cold wind came in, so I let him to close the window. He asked me if I cared about the smoke smell. I said I’d rather be warm, then put on headphones to listen to music.

Halfway through the trip, I saw him wave to me, so I took off my headphones. He said let’s talk for a while, I’ve been driving for a day, and felt a little tired and bored. Certainly, I said.

He asked me what job I do. I said I work in a design institute. He asked where the institute was, and I told him it was in Pudong New district. He asked where exactly. In Expo Park, I told him. Then he said he knew, the institute was moved from Pudong South Road to the place? I was surprised. I said you’re impressive, you know all this. He said that when we drive a taxi, we’ll accumulate experience in the process, what time period, and where it is possible to pick up. Therefore, I know that your design institute often works overtime until after 10 o’clock in the evening, and many people will take a taxi home. Your profession is also tiring, and you often work overtime. I said that in Shanghai, to survive, which industry is not tired, don’t rely on overtime to earn more hard money! He said yes, but not many of you have been taking cabs overtime lately, so it seems to have been affected by the sluggish market conditions. Guests are our food and clothing parents, the whole social economy is a big system, a glory, a loss. I said that’s a high enough state of mind for you!

I asked him whether he runs the day shift or the night shift, and he said that he runs the day and night shifts alone, he drives until about 2:00 a.m. every day, and that if he can’t hold out any longer, he’ll find a remote roadside to sleep for four or five hours. Recently, for several days in a row have only earn about 400 yuan of gross income, and still have to pay 300 yuan of “share money” every day, this day is really not easy. But not good have to live, for the sake of the family, in order to survive, can only own more hard work, hang on, hope there is a good day ……

I admired his stoicism, and sometimes the survival wisdom of the general public has a pristine positivity to it. There is such a proverb: A hundred kinds of business are difficult, only begging for food and leisure. Most of the people in this world live a life of "bending their waists for five buckets of rice". For survival, for development, for family, for the company ……, the dream is there, the power is there.

Mon, September 16, 2024

台风“贝碧嘉”上午7:30登陆上海浦东临港新城，近中心最大风力14级。据报道这是1949年以来，正面登陆上海市的最强台风。台风给上海带来一场狂风暴雨和极强的破坏性，各方面遭受损失不小，估计随后的新闻会有详细报道。

下午三点多钟，台风过去，风停雨住，我出门去了解小区范围内受损情况。底层商铺的门口植物陈设全部被吹倒砸烂，路边有几棵树被连根拔起或者吹断了，道路上很多的残枝败叶。有两辆车被坠落的断枝砸到，看起来已经开出去维修了，车位空了出来。垃圾房的顶棚被掀掉，路灯控制箱被吹倒。邻居们在微信群里抱怨，因为外墙门窗渗漏，家里水漫金山。

我的车旁边有一根被风吹断的大枯枝，不知道有没有砸到它，看起来还好。副驾驶侧外玻璃与B柱的缝隙里有片树叶，估计是风把玻璃吹变形了的时候卡进去的。楼顶露台栽种的各式花花草草，花盆几乎尽数被吹落摔坏。楼上邻居开公司的，说他们厂子4000多平米的厂房屋顶被风掀掉了，损失不小。

在大自然的威力面前，人类渺小到微不足道。说“人定胜天”的人，要不只是给自己个心理安慰，要不就是痴人说梦。

Typhoon Bebinca landed in Lingang New City in Pudong, Shanghai at 7:30 a.m., with the maximum wind of 14 force near the center. It was reported to be the strongest typhoon to make landfall in Shanghai since 1949.

At 3:00 p.m., the typhoon passed, the wind and rain stopped. I went out to check on the damage within the community. The plants at the entrance of the shops on the ground floor were all blown down and smashed, and a few trees on the side of the road were uprooted or blown off, there were many stumps and leaves everywhere. Two cars were hit by falling broken branches that appeared to have been driven out for repair, and the parking space was empty. The roof of the garbage room was torn off, and the street lamp control box was blown down. Neighbors complained in the WeChat group that because of the leakage of doors and windows on the external wall, the water flooded their home.

There was a big windblown branch next to my car, I don’t know if it hit it. It looks ok. There is a leaf in the gap between the outer glass and the B-pillar on the co-pilot side, it’s estimated that the wind is stuck when the glass is deformed. All kinds of flowers and plants planted on the roof of the terrace, the flowerpots are almost blown down and broken. Upstairs neighbor said that more than 4000 square meters of his factory’s roof were lifted by the wind, the loss is not small.

In the face of the power of nature, human beings are small to insignificant. People who say "man can conquer nature", or not just to give themselves a psychological comfort, or is a crazy dream.