Run it! Even if the distance is a place that can never be reached.

Suzanne 2022-03-23 09:01:55

If one day, you are in your thirties, forties, fifties or even older, if you still doubt that your life should not be like this at that time, then you are willing to live like a willful child , bravely give up everything to pursue the life you want, or choose to become a mature adult who accepts reality, is recognized by mainstream social values, and lives a so-called happy life?

If one day you decide to choose the former, it means that you may become a "madman" and a "patient" in the eyes of most people, and be labeled as "abnormal brain", and then you may face "isolation", "being rejected" "Forgotten" situation, but, you have decided to be "crazy", do you still care?

Most of us will slowly become one of the latter in the end. In many cases, the so-called growth is based on the removal of self-individuality and the gradual integration of the individual into the mainstream values ​​of this society. But at the end of the day, this is also a matter of personal choice, but the former is a more difficult option than the latter.

More than a year ago, a friend of mine once told me that he was afraid of mediocrity and could not bear the life of a normal person. He made a lot of efforts for this, although I did not understand and agree with my value judgment at that time. that way. A little over a year later he swore to tell me that he decided to try to be a normal person at least. The so-called normal category in his mouth is to fall in love and to get married. Maybe most people think that it should be a good thing for a man to grow to this level, because he has become mature. But I will still struggle with his saying "at least it looks normal", because "at least it looks normal" probably means that this kind of life is not what he really wants at present, so it has become a kind of " compromise".

I thought of "loneliness". In the book "The Neurotic Personality of Our Time", Horney once described "loneliness" as follows - "The fact that the individual is finite and lonely is inherent in human life. . . . It is this individual finitude and loneliness that most of the cultural inclinations for orgies and indulgences seek to overcome. . . . By dissolving oneself into something larger, by making oneself a greater entity As a component, the individual overcomes his finitude to a certain extent. As the "Upanishads" said: 'By disappearing into nothingness, we merge into the endless creation of the universe.'"

Each of us Facing "loneliness" will have different solutions. Some people choose to believe in religion, some people become mystics, some people choose to "compromise", and some people become "madmen" and "abnormalities" in the eyes of most people.

Davis chose to leave and continued on the path he was looking for. Some people may say that it is an escape, and he has never been able to face the reality and face his own life. However, you can't even articulate what we live for? In fact, I admire Davis, at least he has the courage to face loneliness. For a person who has not yet figured out his own life, he can be resolutely persistent in searching, even at the risk of giving up everything. Mr. Li Zhi told us that Mayakovsky once said something like this - "People must choose a life and have the courage to stick to it." And Davis is just that kind of person.

so. Run it! Davis. Even if the distance is a place that can never be reached.

And you, when can you not just "look normal", but truly recognize that kind of plain life, and know how to enjoy the true meaning of it?



ps: Although the director's expression is ok on some of the issues that he is trying to discuss, I still want to say that this is a boring film~ Be careful while watching! !

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    What is the opposite of love, is it hate? Or nothingness? Some people say, I hope you hate me, because that proves that you loved me. The Buddha said that lust for people is like holding a torch and walking against the wind. If a fool does not release the torch, he will burn his hands.

Paris, Texas quotes

  • Walt: We live in the suburbs, but I've got my business in town

    Travis: Oh yeah? What's your business?

    Walt: I make billboard signs for advertising.

    Travis: Oh yeah? So *you*'re the one who makes those signs, I love those. Some of them are beautiful.

    Walt: I'm not the only one who makes them, Trav.

  • Travis: He thought if she never got jealous of him that she didn't really care about him. Jealousy was a sign of her love for him, and then one night, one night she told him that she was pregnant, she was about three or four months pregnant and he didn't even know and then suddenly everything changed, he stopped drinking, he got a steady job, he was convinced that she loved him now that she was carrying his child and he was going to dedicate himself to making a home for her. But a funny thing started to happen, he didn't even notice it at first, she started to change. From the day the baby was born, she began to get irritated with everything around her. She got mad at everything. Even the baby seemed to be an injustice to her. He kept trying to make everything all right for her. Buy her things. Take her out to dinner once a week. But nothing seemed to satisfy her. For two years he struggled to pull them back together like they were when they first met, but finally he knew that it was never going to work out. So he hit the bottle again. But this time it got... mean. This time, when he came home late at night, she wasn't worried about him, or jealous, she was just enraged. She accused him of holding her captive by making her have a baby. She told him that she dreamed about escaping. That was all she dreamed about: escape. She saw herself at night running naked down a highway, running across fields, running down riverbeds, always running. And always, just when she was about to get away, he'd be there. He would stop her somehow. He would just appear and stop her. And when she told him these dreams, he believed them. He knew she had to be stopped or she'd leave him forever. So he tied a cow bell to her ankle so he could hear at night if she tried to get out of bed. But she learned how to muffle the bell by stuffing a sock into it, and inching her way out of the bed and into the night. He caught her one night when the sock fell out and he heard her trying to run to the highway. He caught her and dragged her back to the trailer, and tied her to the stove with his belt. He just left her there and went back to bed and lay there listening to her scream. And he listened to his son scream, and he was surprised at himself because he didn't feel anything anymore. All he wanted to do was... sleep. And for the first time, he wished he were far away. Lost in a deep, vast country where nobody knew him. Somewhere without language, or streets. He dreamed about this place without knowing its name. And when he woke up, he was on fire. There were blue flames burning the sheets of his bed. He ran through the flames toward the only two people he loved... but they were gone. His arms were burning, and he threw himself outside and rolled on the wet ground. Then he ran. He never looked back at the fire. He just ran. He ran until the sun came up and he couldn't run any further. And when the sun went down, he ran again. For five days he ran like this until every sign of man had disappeared.