The monotonous work and life day after day is indeed exhausting. It doesn’t take many years for a guy who used to be high-spirited and interested to quickly turn into a boring middle-aged man with a beer belly bragging about his achievements with customers, a beautiful The girl with aura will soon fade into a yellow-faced woman with dull eyes and a hollow life.
So the hero and heroine made a unanimous decision - they were going to move to Paris. In fact, Paris just represents the possibility of a turning point, a place of spiritual redemption, and a yearning to break the dull deadlock.
In the process of having this plan and starting to prepare, they gradually became happy-they talked to their neighbors and friends about their future plans with high spirits, and the sparks between them were ignited again.
Unfortunately, when the day to go to Paris is gradually approaching, an inevitable question emerges - how much better is it to go to Paris than to stay here? What is the opportunity cost of going to Paris and getting promoted if you stay here?
In fact, I think a deeper reason that I haven't said is that when it's time to "realize your dreams", many people are afraid - if you abandon everything you have now to pursue that unknown dream, you will eventually find yourself at the root What if you don't have a dream?
It's like a lot of people say they have procrastination symptoms, can't you do it well without procrastinating? Or are you actually procrastinating just to escape the truth that "you really can't handle things yourself"? So if he is really allowed to solve the procrastination, he is not willing.
Another example is like when you were young, you encountered some classmates who said they didn't work hard when they failed in the exam, right? Because "not working hard" implies that it is not that I am not smart enough, and that there is still a thought that "you will be able to pass the test next time you work hard". If you really work hard and still fail the exam, then you can only admit that you are not smart.
The same reason why the "revolutionary road" didn't come to the end after all - if you really get to Paris and find that it's not the job at all, but yourself, it's really a desperate situation, right? Therefore, it is to be expected that the film ends in destruction.
Such an attempt is wrong in the first place - it is impossible to resolve the underlying anxiety simply by changing places or jobs. We must face this head on. Because such questions must be self-effort, long-term questioning and practice in order to find a way to gradually approach the answer. It is impossible to know what life is for without thinking, without trying, without giving up something, without falling. In short - there are no shortcuts to this thing.
You have to find out what you really enjoy doing, not what you do based on comparisons, social values, or what others have instilled. The process of exploration alone is not so easy. Maybe some people know what they want to do from the beginning, but most people can only learn from "I understand what I don't like to do" through trial and error. "And gradually approaching "what do I want".
Then, the process of how to slowly transition to being able to do that thing is not easy. One of the questions that many people are afraid of is whether they can make a living doing what they like to do. I don't have the right to summarize this, because some people can and some can't, and we can't know all the reasons, but one thing I'm sure about - if you're doing something you don't like, then you mustn't be able to It does it best; even if it can solve basic bread problems for you, it can only do it for you so far.
The road to revolution is indeed not easy. Compared with the soldiers who fell due to various hardships/misfortunes along the way, it is not worth the middle class who hurriedly embarked on this road just to escape their current life.
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