The person who has given me a new understanding of failure in recent memory is Lester, the protagonist of the movie "American Beauty", a middle-aged man whose career and family have failed. He asked himself, who was now living in the dull and dull days, "What have I lost in these twenty years?" He began to reflect on his own life, and wondered why his wife and daughter could not listen to his complete statement. After all, he still realizes that he is a Loser.
There has never been a book called "How to Become a Failure" on the book market. Only books like "The Law of Success" and "Prosperity Diary" labeled as "Success Literature" have been listed on the shelves. It is not difficult to see the readers' yearning and pursuit of success, and it is not difficult to see that there are a lot of people who fail. At least many people live on the road of chasing success. They refuse and are afraid of failure, so "How to Become a Failure" It's not needed, it's too easy to fail.
This is the problem. Things that come too easily are often despised and ignored, just like a woman who is not reserved is difficult to cherish. And our hero Lester, after quitting his seemingly decent job, chose to be a fast food waiter with no brains, even though he did it 20 years ago, and at the same time he changed his Toyota to a seven Year 0 Firebird sports car. Is he crazy? But he said what he dreamed of, he wanted a life that truly belonged to him. I can't help but think that some older people have said things like "what you wanted when you were young, but now you don't want it", why don't you want it anymore? One is that what you once wanted is now easy to get or has already been obtained, and the other is that there is more you want now. You see, many people are just so dissatisfied. Why can't the self twenty years later be a little satisfied with the self twenty years ago? Have we forgotten the self in the past twenty years? Lester's heart evoked himself twenty years ago, and now he can easily satisfy himself, why not? He also got that belated happiness and present calmness from it.
Lester accepted his failure, he felt extremely happy, and his life was full of passion again. He exercised and smoked marijuana (since marijuana is the least harmful and most controversial drug, let's take it as a way for Lester to release himself), He fell in love with the little girl who resurrected his soul. He dares to resist and ignore his wife and re-establish himself as the master of the family. He can also be tolerant to his cheating wife. He tries to communicate with his daughter in a friendly way. He is trying to help his family. But the end of the story is a cup, Lester was shot by a neighbor, I think, Lester was not killed by a gun, he was killed by a love that does not understand intolerance, which is more than a cup, love can also kill ,why? We cannot tolerate our own failures as well as the failures of those we love. If your love is narrow, please don't love.
Admitting what happened to one's own failure seems to be making trouble out of nowhere, but it is actually being tolerant of oneself. If you are tolerant of yourself, you can also be tolerant to the people around you. This is not indulgence or degeneration. This is what life should have experienced and possessed.
How many people can tell me clearly what kind of knowledge and skills they have acquired after so many years of compulsory education and higher education? Putting what we have learned into practice, or discovering in the future that “you will hate less when you have a book”, aside from that, the education we received doesn’t seem to teach us how to deal with pain. It’s because everyone suffers and there is no good education, right? Well, people yearn for success, but in reality, failure is inevitable, and failure is painful, not to mention those irreversible losses. Or is education itself telling us that it is endless.
I'm thinking, if we weren't taught to "look at the problem while developing", would it be less painful and more peaceful? If we hadn't been reminded from time to time by our parents that "if you don't work harder, others will surpass you", would we have more happy memories and beautiful dreams, so that we would be less anxious to do something. If one day you are tired and tired, remembering the past but crying, when we are old, we have to laugh and remember, okay?
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