"The best moments in reading are when you realize something, a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things that you thought was special and that only you can understand, and here, someone else has Expressed. Someone you've never met, even someone who's been dead for a long time. Then, as if a hand stretched out and grabbed you." This paragraph is really arresting! It was as if those incompetent hands were holding me and wouldn't let me go! There is a lot of philosophical language in this movie, and it's really a pleasure to watch a group of scholars discuss articles together! I believe that literature is the spiritual wealth that can accompany us throughout our lives!
"If, when we were twelve years old, there were also flaming phoenix flowers outside the window, fish and shrimp were still playing in the water, and wild snakes slowly crawled along the tropical ivy, and then lay on the rocks. Let's bask in the sun, if we have such a very old soul, sitting on the podium, and saying this to us in a warm and calm voice:
'Children, if you are twelve years old today, if you meet again in forty years, you will find that out of fifty of you, two will suffer from major depression, two will die of illness or accident, Five people are still struggling with food and clothing every day, one third feel that their marriage is not very happy, one person will commit suicide, and two people suffer from cancer.
Among the four of you, the brightest and best children today, two will become doctors or engineers or businessmen, and the other two will spend their lives in misery and hardship. All others, go through marriage, childbirth, work, retirement, and life consists of a touch of sadness and a touch of happiness, living each day with little anticipation, occasional excitement, and silent disappointment, and then with a kind of Want to say but can't say "understand", make the final turn and leave. '
What if someone taught us this way when we were twelve years old? "
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