In high school, because of the mountain of college entrance examination, every Chinese weekly, English weekly and even math newspaper is a must for study. Any other newspaper will do. I threw them away when I wrote them. Only Chinese newspapers are especially cherished and carefully ordered.

Because I like those beautiful sentences and ancient poems since I was a child, and these Chinese newspapers are all there, so I often look through those Chinese newspapers and even put them on my bedside, and occasionally enjoy them in my spare time as a reward for my efforts. I will even copy down my favorite words in the newspaper instead of cutting them out, because I really can't bear to see a complete newspaper become incomplete and lose its original beauty because of my selfishness.

But with my graduation from high school, there is no need to subscribe to the newspaper, so I have less and less contact with it. I forgot it when I came into contact with the newspaper again after graduation, and there may be no need to remember it again. I shifted my attention to newspapers to my mobile phone. When I see some beautiful words, I no longer choose to copy them down, but collect them with one click. I only watch them on a whim, and I no longer regard them as rewards.

The convenience of reading also indirectly leads to the fragmentation and rapidity of reading. Things in my mind are no longer a whole form, but scattered in some corners, which is difficult to leave an impression and extremely easy to forget. As time goes by and this state continues, I even feel that I am becoming impetuous and lack the original concentration. And these bad feelings are impossible when reading newspapers.

Maybe a mobile phone can never replace a newspaper, just as a keyboard can never replace pen and ink. The unique characteristics of meditation in those ancient things are extremely lacking and cannot be easily replaced by other things. Come to think of it, maybe that's why they always exist.