Like a pendulum, only one who has swung to one side of boredom, loneliness, pain, and seemingly endless waiting can reach the other side of fantasy, warmth, happiness, and meaning.
Other than that, there is no other way.
Because without the experience of the other end, how do you know what happiness is. As if you have never tasted bitter, how do you know the taste of sweet? If you don’t work overtime, how do you know about leisure without overtime? Without the nervousness of preparing for exams, how do you know the joy of watching TV if you want to watch TV when you don’t need to study, and the joy of watching movies if you want to watch movies, etc.
Therefore, after being able to realize that the protagonist's boring work and regular life will turn people into a machine that can't feel and can't dream, after seeing the loneliness of walking alone on a rainy night, when he plays the guitar and hugs his lover You will really know how happy you are.
The novelist's explanation of why the novel's ending was revised is very moving. If you don't know your own destiny, and don't know that what awaits him is the end of death, the death of the protagonist has indeed made a perfect novel, about the uncontrollable fate of grief. But if you still choose to die after knowing the final ending, then such a choice has completely changed the theme that the story wants to express, so the novelist's revised ending is not a perfect story, but it has become a moving story, a story about how to pass The story of making others happy and realizing one's own value, some people sacrifice their bravery, some people pass a cookie.
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