I never thought that I would be able to brush up on the realistic version of "The Old Lady and the Sea" in my lifetime.
Do you remember "The Heart of the Swimmer" (the English name literally translates "The Old Lady and the Sea") written by Yang a while ago?
The film is a biopic of Trudy · Eder, who insisted on herself in a social environment where women were not allowed to swim and became the first woman to cross the English Channel.
This film has a Douban score of 9.0, which makes everyone feel the meaning of women's strength and courage.
And when the legendary story reappeared, no one thought that the protagonist this time would be a Chengdu girl who had never seen the sea-
She drifted on the sea of Japan for nearly 36 hours, relying on tenacity, courage, wisdom, and perseverance, she made herself an idol of the whole network, and became the most worthy story to tell this year.
The fantasy drift of Maiden Cheese
Many people have watched "Life of Pi" and longed to look at the vast starry sky on the deep and wide sea, but for Girl Cheese, a trip shattered her ocean dream.
Cheese, a junior from Chengdu, took advantage of her summer vacation to visit Japan with her friends in July.
Before this, Cheese had never seen the sea, and it was because of this that she lacked some knowledge of the sea.
On the evening of July 8, Cheese and her friends went to the beach to rent a swimming ring, ready to float on the sea, as far as 20 meters offshore.
Later, when the two were about to go back to rest, they swam to the shore together, but the companion soon reached the shore, and the cheese could not swim back.
It was as if a strange force was holding her back, and she was caught in the rip current.
It was around 6:30 p.m., and the water was warm at first, but as time went by, the cheese was pushed farther and farther away by the waves.
The wind is getting stronger, the water is getting cooler, the waves are getting higher, the call of companions is gone, and the cheese is starting to get too cold to stand it.
After a while, the rescue boat that came to look for her came from the left, center, and right, and the cheese could hear a loud roar and smell a heavy smell of gasoline.
But the most desperate thing happened: the rescue ship did not find the cheese.
I don't know if the treasures can experience that kind of feeling: it's clear that the rescue team is right in front of you, but no matter how much you shout, they can't hear it.
The boat stopped in front of her eyes for a minute, then turned around and searched in the wrong direction, and by the time the sound of the motor and the smell of gasoline had completely disappeared, it was early in the morning.
How scary is the sea at night?
It's pitch black, and you can only hear the loud sound of the waves crashing on the water, and you don't know where you're going.
At the scariest moment, she floated to a depth of 2,000 meters, where there were sharks and carnivorous fish, but the only thing she could rely on was a swimming ring.
On top of that, Tokyo Bay is one of the busiest ports in the world, and if she is unfortunate enough to float near a freighter, she will be swept into and torn apart by a freighter twenty or thirty stories high...
She didn't know what was under the sea, what would emerge from the sea, and she didn't know if she would survive the night.
The seawater slapped into Cheese's mouth again and again, and she spit it out again and again, but the corrosive seawater still made her tongue numb.
Once, the sea water slapped a blue creature resembling a jellyfish on her arm, and the wound touched the sea water, which was very painful.
On the endless sea, cheese floated 80 kilometers and spent the most difficult 36 hours of her life: she saw three mirages, and in a trance, she saw her friends hand her slippers.
But all this good is fake.
In the most desperate moment, she even tried to bury her head in the water and suffocate to death, she imagined that she had sunk to the bottom of the sea, and the whole person was foamed and swollen and swallowed by the underwater animals.
"If I die like this, my family and friends will live with the idea that 'is she not dead, whether she has floated to some island'."
Cheese didn't want that, she still wanted to live.
The sea cannot kill the will to survive
Regarding this experience of cheese, Yang can only think of four words: life in a desperate situation.
There are dangers everywhere, everything is unknown, and Cheese's physical strength is gradually reaching its limit, she is cold and weak, her hands can't support her body, and her head can't support her cervical spine.
But even so, Cheese did not give up any faint hope.
The strong desire to survive made her keep thinking even beyond the limits of her body, and in the 36 hours she floated, she discovered three ways to fight the waves -
If you are facing the waves, you can see the direction, you can go up and down with the waves with your back to the waves, and you can move relatively freely against the waves, and you will receive less impact.
Every time a ship passed by, Cheese would desperately cry for help and try to swim in the direction of the boat, although she was not rescued, but at least it proved that she had not yet drifted to the Pacific Ocean.
In the middle of the night, she would look at the lighthouse, thinking that if she could float there, she could climb up and be rescued.
At each stage, she will generate new hopes, even if the hopes are dashed again and again, but as long as she lives, there are infinite possibilities.
After a day and a half of not eating or drinking, cheese's sanity was close to collapse.
In a blur, she remembered that she had taught in western Sichuan and was a team leader, and this experience laid the foundation for her physical fitness.
She's 158 tall and weighs 120, and she's tried to lose weight countless times, but at this moment—
"I'm thankful for my fat."
On July 10th, Cheese, who had woken up from a coma (or coma), suddenly saw the sampling ship, and the temporarily dormant desire to survive was awakened again.
She tried to turn her legs toward the ship and used all her strength to float in the direction of the boat, which was the first time she had seen a crew member on board.
Cheese shouted in English as she floated: I can't swim over, can you come over?
Luckily the boat stopped, and half an hour later, a boat approached Cheese, and the crew worked together to help Cheese and pulled her to the boat with a rope.
At this point, the cheese has been drifting at sea for 36 hours, one day and two nights.
In the endless ocean, in the long night, she is her own island, torch and lighthouse.
After a brief check-up and a short break on board, Cheese was boarded in a helicopter and taken to the hospital.
When she arrived at the hospital, she learned that after her accident, her friends in junior high school, high school, and college spontaneously organized a rescue group.
These people who don't know each other get together for cheese and repeatedly look for rescue for her.
The combined efforts of Cheese and family and friends contributed to this miracle of life.
After the incident, the story of Cheese went viral all over the Internet, but Cheese didn't think she was a miracle, she thought it was the power of courage.
"Don't underestimate yourself, embrace love when you are surrounded by love, and if you are the only one left, then please believe that you are strong enough."
Never underestimate your own power
Do the sisters understand that feeling?
When I was a child, I watched the daughter of the sea, read fairy tales, and thought that women always played the role of being saved because of their weakness, and when I grew up, I learned that women can also fight with nature.
When the body reaches its limit, the will can still save you.
And there are many similar stories of cheese, after reading the report of cheese, the first thing the sheep thought of was the woman Liu Jiatu who gritted her teeth in the floods in Kenya for 12 hours a while ago.
Image source @ Liu Jia Figure 6+2
During her trip to Kenya, she was hit by a once-in-a-decade flood, and the hotel gave up the rescue, hiding in a tree for 12 hours.
At the time, she was wearing only thin clothes and panties, and she was still menstruating.
Later, the rescuers were finally contacted, but the other party refused to come on the grounds that "I don't believe that a young woman can keep her sanity after more than ten hours in the tree".
When she was most desperate, she even took a "posthumous photo" of herself
Image source @ Liu Jia Figure 6+2
With no food, drink, or clothing, she relied on her willpower to support the most difficult ten hours.
Image source @ Liu Jia Figure 6+2
When she was in the tree, she was always looking for a rescue solution, even though her physical strength had reached the limit, her mind was still burning, and she was even afraid of disconnecting and charging her mobile phone.
What a powerful willpower and vitality this is, saving yourself in a desperate situation is like experiencing a rebirth.
The world thinks that women are fragile and gentle, but this vitality that explodes in desperate situations proves it all.
As early as ten years ago, a female teacher was maliciously pushed into the well by others, and she tried everything she could but no one found out about her existence.
After 60 hours of hard work without eating or drinking, she stripped naked and twisted into a rope to save herself.
There is also the pregnant woman who fell off a cliff in Thailand, she has been undergoing continuous surgery for several years, and after three years of rehabilitation, she finally got back on her feet.
The world seems to have played a big joke on them, but they just prove that life is great because it is written by a strong subjective will.
Maybe before all this, even they couldn't imagine that they could save themselves to the limit, but this is how courage bursts out in an instant.
Never underestimate the power of faith and will, at the junction of life and death, you can believe in yourself.
In the end, the sheep wanted to boast about the innate delicacy and gentleness of women, and Liu Jiatu, who observed the starry sky with cheese floating on the sea and sheltered from the flood on the tree, also described-
"On the side of the ring finger of my right hand holding my phone, there is one of the smallest snails I've ever seen in my life, not even as good as a grain of rice.
I even took a closer look at the skin of the Maasai people, and it turned out that they were not simply black, but when the sun hits their skin, it will glow with a layer of colorful light like oil flowers. ”
We fight with nature, we also live in symbiosis with nature, and we can still have this perception between life and death, which is probably a talent that belongs only to women.
An article is too small to write the miracle of life.
May the stories of these girls give you some strength, because if you want to, we can have the same wisdom, resilience and courage.
Life is like the sea, if there is no one to guide you, be your own star and torch.
Reference: Sanlian Life Weekly - A Chinese girl who survives 36 hours adrift in the sea of Japan