"Most people die at 25 and are buried at 75." - Franklin
"Believe me, I've tried everything."
Anyone who's seen the movie should be sympathetic to Robert De Niro's line in the film I have an impression, because he squeezed out this sentence in broken Chinese, and I really couldn't hear it without reading the subtitles.
De Niro plays Ben, a 70-year-old widower who has worked for 40 years in a company that prints phone books. After retirement, living alone makes him feel very empty. After trying a lot, it doesn't feel right. Whether it's traveling around the world or learning Mandarin, trust him, he's tried everything. Coincidentally, an e-commerce start-up company had a whim and began to recruit senior interns over 65 years old. Ben did not miss this opportunity to step into the new world.
He asks his 9-year-old grandson what a USB port is, learns to upload videos, and on his first day at work, with an old-fashioned calculator with him, he can't even light up the screen of an Apple computer. However, the old man showed little signs of discomfort, and quickly got along with his younger colleagues and younger bosses.
We often feel that the older we get, the harder it is to change and step out of our comfort zone. People often say, "I can't do anything but this business." And Ben is a man who has done the same job for 40 years, and the business he is good at has been abandoned by the times. How did he change?
First of all, we don't see him having the slightest gripe about his life over the past four decades, during which he was not motivated to make changes. If you also love your current life, then you, like him, are a happy person.
But when he sensed that retirement alone was beginning to advance the years after his death, he began to look for things to keep him grounded. In the process, he became more aware of the outside world and more aware of himself. Therefore, the office space of the company he chose to join was the place where he had worked for 40 years. This familiar place gave him a sufficient sense of security. It became a window for him to see the new world and learn Classroom for new things.
When we learn unfamiliar things, we must also find links from familiar places. Being pampered within a fixed range for too long, due to the lack of a frame of reference, it is difficult for people to see their true characteristics and the real needs of the outside world. What Ben is familiar with is not just a venue, but also the education he has accumulated.
This old man is perceptive, likes to wear a suit, brings his own bathrobe, and always has a handkerchief. Let the people around him admire from the heart "He is well educated".
He has confidence in his education, not only because it gives him the ability to make a living, but also the mentality of lifelong learning.
The story of this 70-year-old intern gives me confidence that I can also become a lifelong intern who is willing to practice and start again at any age.
Some people will be buried at the age of 100, but they will not do it when they die at the age of 99. A person's life span is not under his control, but a person's spiritual life can be completely determined by himself.
The inevitability of death gives us the opportunity to think about why we are alive. Unknown to live, how to die.
For people who want to change but are slow to act, you just need to follow your heart and start experimenting with different possibilities. Ben, who has "tried everything", is not trying to follow the fashionable trend, nor is he afraid of being different from others, but is looking for a self who can make a living.
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