For many years, I have watched a Christmas movie every time around Christmas. This year I watched "Polar Express". A boy who was very skeptical or did not believe in the existence of Santa Claus saw an express train heading to the North Pole on Christmas Eve and hesitated to board the train at the last minute. After going through some hardships, I finally arrived in the North Pole. There his companion could hear the Christmas bell, but he could not hear it. Later, a bell on Santa’s sleigh fell in front of him. After closing my eyes and saying "I believe", I finally heard a sweet ringtone.
Santa Claus chose one of the children who reached the North Pole to give him a gift. After he was selected, Santa Claus asked him what he wanted, and he said he wanted the bell. So Santa Claus gave him the bell and said to him: "This bell is full of the meaning of Christmas, just like me. Remember, the meaning of Christmas lies deep in your heart." Santa asked him to take good care of the bell. , He solemnly put the bell in his pocket, but then he found a hole in his pocket and the bell was missing. He was very disappointed, and his friend comforted him and said, what you think in your heart is true. Yes, as Santa Claus said, the meaning of Christmas is deep in your heart. If you believe it, the bell will always be there and it will not be lost.
There is another child who doesn’t believe in Santa Claus. It’s never been Christmas yet. He was also selected to go to the North Pole. Among the countless children’s gifts, he found his gift box and kept holding it and refused to put it down. It was put into Santa’s pocket after being persuaded. When he got off the Polar Express and rushed into the house to see the present, he ran out with the box excitedly and shouted to the friends in the car: "Look! Look! Santa Claus is here!" He used to be a lonely child , Made a lot of friends during the polar tour. Maybe he is a child who is not loved and has never received a gift, so he will not believe in Santa Claus. But when I was young, I didn't have gifts, but I always believed in the beauty of fairy tales.
It seems that when I had a concept of Christmas, I knew that it was an imaginary world, but knowing the truth did not affect my belief in the existence of Santa Claus. I didn’t really believe that there was such an old man who would drive a sleigh pulled by an elk. , I climbed down from the chimney to give gifts, because I never had Christmas when I was a child, and I never received a gift, but all this did not affect my belief in the beauty of Christmas, and I never thought it was a fake and a lie. of. For me, there is no such process from believing to discovering the truth and not believing anymore. I have always liked fairy tales and have never left the world of fairy tales. Those who are surprised that adults read fairy tales are not worth talking to.
"Beauty is true, and true is beautiful." This is what I love, and the standard by which I measure things. What is beautiful is true, and it does not necessarily have to exist in the real world. I remembered that Harry Potter asked Professor Dumbledore once, those things were imagined in his mind, Professor Dumbledore said yes, and then asked him back but why the things imagined in his mind can’t be real. Woolen cloth? There is no difference between what I came to say about the real thing and what I imagined, and even the things of the imaginary world, those things that people think do not exist are more meaningful.
What surprises me is that everything must be measured by true and false. As long as people who imagine the world are dismissive, they always falsify in reality. There are not many true feelings and things that can bring benefits. It's good. How do they demand the authenticity of things? The wonderful world of fairy tales, Santa Claus, and the beauty of these related literature and art, of course cannot be appreciated. "There are such beautiful music, literature and art, which is why this festival is so fascinating." There are many ugly things in the world that are real, and people can tolerate them because they are real, but they cannot tolerate beautiful things. Just because it does not exist in the imaginary reality. It's sad.
The boy returned from the North Pole. After getting off the train, he said thank you to the conductor. The conductor said that he should thank you himself. Then I told him about the train, it doesn't matter where you go, what matters is whether you want to take the train or not. This is the question he asked when he first saw the Polar Express. After returning, he saw that the Christmas gift was a toy train, and then he saw a box under the Christmas tree with the bell inside. In the letter from Santa Claus, he found it under the sleigh. He rang the bell happily and listened to it with his sister Sarah. His parents took it to shake but couldn't hear the bell. They said it was a pity that the bell was broken. In fact, their hearts were dusted and they couldn't hear the beautiful sound.
At the end of the movie, he said: "Once upon a time, most of my friends could hear the ringtone. But as time passed, they couldn't hear it anymore, and even Sarah suddenly couldn't hear the sweet ringtone anymore. Now I am long. When it gets older, you can still hear the bell, just like everyone who truly believes in Christmas." No longer believe in the fairy tale world, the dusted soul cannot hear the bell. "Peter Pan" said that when they returned to reality, they gradually stopped flying. It was not because they neglected to practice, but because they had grown up and no longer believed in everything in the past. Only by believing in beauty can miracles happen.
Truman Capote said in his "Christmas Memories" that when he was a child, he often went to the mountains to chop trees with the housekeeper, Miss Su Ke, and pulled them back to decorate, waiting for Santa to give gifts. Then one year his father cruelly told him that Santa Claus was fake and the gifts were all prepared by adults. At that time, I thought he would ask Miss Su Ke why she lied to him, but I didn’t expect that he was very anxious to find her, eager to tell Miss Su Ke that she was also deceived. His reaction made me surprised, touched and sad at the time. I felt it was really innocent, but some people wanted to hurt such an innocent heart on purpose. After he was injured, he still wanted to protect others. Fortunately, Miss Su Ke seemed to convince him of the existence of Santa Claus again, which moved people again.
Last year’s Christmas diary read: “Today I saw a Santa Claus training school in Midland, Michigan, founded in 1927. The first principal, Charles Howard, said: Some people think that Santa Claus came in through the chimney. But in fact, Santa Claus came in from your heart. The article also said that believing in a beautiful existence is also a force against a complex world. This is not naive. This is just like what I said. That’s how I am. I think that’s how I fight against this terrible world. I said I didn’t believe in Santa Claus and fairy tales on Christmas Eve last year. I didn’t mean that I didn’t believe in the truth. It’s because I didn’t believe in beautiful feelings and things. . Or do you have such beautiful feelings and yearning in your heart. Do you have a perception of love and beauty. It will always be like this.” Yes, always believe in this way.
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