This situation can be understood, but not required.

Lucinda 2021-12-15 08:01:10

In the first year of graduate school, our department changed to a foreign teacher. The little girl is the same age as us, and freshly graduated undergraduates come to teach foreign languages. In fact, she didn't know what to teach. Compared to the Americans I had met before and who were called good friends after learning, she was at a loss and a little frightened. She comes from a middle-class suburb near Denver. Her boyfriend floated on the sea for a year on a study project around the world. She said that she went shopping at Quanyechang in Tianjin on weekends. The first time she saw so many people, her heartbeat speeded up and became dizzy. Lose.

Then one day, she brought a book to the class to read it to us. That book is the original work of the movie "eat pray love". She said that this book gave her the courage to face the life of one year in Tianjin and the life of her only son leaving her family and boyfriend in China. In short, this book The book gave her courage. She said that this woman's story is what she yearns for.

Later, like her, I left my family and friends and broke up with my boyfriend and came to the United States. I saw this book as a best-selling novel in the school library and bookstore, and on the school bus I saw little undergraduate girls reading happily. They talked about it better than Harry Potter. The cover of this book is really pretty, and the title is pleasing enough. I think if I were still a junior high school student, I would buy it, because it is simple and cute. But every time I saw the cover, I thought again, this is a book that gave the foreign teacher girl who can't teach lessons courage. Thinking of the excerpt I heard, I didn't want to read it.

In short, with regard to regaining the ability to love and be loved, to be full of fighting spirit or to live a life again, I always feel that this is something that I want to understand. It is really hypocritical to obtain this ability through a journey around the world.

Later, this film was made into a movie. It lasted two and a half hours. When I saw her trip to India, I started to look bored and text messages on my mobile phone. It was too long and too boring. My girlfriend and I were waiting for the appearance of the last actor to appear. After seeing him appear, I felt that this boring waiting was a result, and finally I met a man. But what about it? After the little twists and turns, I let go of love, and everyone ended up happy.

After reading it, I thought, this is such a weak story. All the foreshadowing in the front is just to wait for the last man. All the previous experience in a foreign land is just to prepare myself to welcome a man. So I asked in a gloomy way, so if she broke up with this man, she should come to China next time to explore, eat all kinds of weird food, go to various remote places, go to Wudang Mountain to Lhasa, and then experience A few bastards, meeting a warm and reliable Chinese shoulder is complete.

But thinking about it, maybe in her position and experience, I will understand her situation. After all, she is a successful and promising near-middle-aged woman, but there is an unreliable husband who thinks that she is incapable of doing things, and the terrible thing is that even if divorced, Bairien is still there, and this man is because Being too weak or smaller is that fate depends on feelings (women are not strange but sad, but men are just like this...), making it very tangled. Then, she fell in love with the actor who played her own script at first sight. But this actor is not reliable, he loves her, but he is too emotional and full, and she can't stand it if he is more than her. So she complained like she was in a bloody show off. She has been dealing with one man after another since she was 16 years old. She wants to be alone with herself, to find her love for food and herself.

After going through such ups and downs and at that age, it is probably only in such a romantic escape that she can leave or escape the things that make her sad. She has the ability to pay for a trip like this, and finally successfully met a man to start a new chapter in her life, and she can also write the experience into a novel that has been selling well for many years, like chicken soup for the soul, which is considered complete. But I couldn't help asking, when she kept changing her boyfriends since she was 16 years old, couldn't she also review and update herself at the same time? Perhaps most people are like this. They lose themselves very quickly in love. They don't know that they don't know how to love themselves first, and they won't love others more purely. And those who have been thrown around, can only come to a romantic and brave escape in the end to calm the dissatisfaction and entanglement in their hearts. And the happiness and self she pursued seem to be very simple. It takes a man to be complete, otherwise the food is still lackluster and the meditation still cannot be seen through.

Probably I was at her age, and I would understand more when I watched this movie. But now I can understand her situation, but I don't want or need this kind of situation and experience.

Finally, let me talk about the foreign teacher girl. The last time I met her was on the street in Beijing. She was walking with the famous Sophie who made the Beijing version of the sexy beijing video. They laughed wantonly, as if they were gossiping. In short, from the perspective of her aura, she is no longer the suburban girl who is afraid to see a lot of people. She now lives in Beijing and she also went to the Modern Music Festival. I think she will go to the pirated store in Sanlitun Bei Street to buy this DVD. Maybe she won’t be touched by it. She is not talking about a girl with a red eyes and a sorrowful nose when her boyfriend is not around. On Facebook, she said that she lived in Beijing for the third year and that she would like to move to Italy next. Maybe she was still thinking about this book. However, in the column of relationship, she changed into fashionable, provocative and sexy, it's complicated. Maybe she hasn't met the stranger who wants to end her yet.

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Eat Pray Love quotes

  • Richard from Texas: Hey, Groceries. Believe in love again.

  • Liz Gilbert: Hadn't I wanted this? I had actively participated in every moment of the creation of this life. So why didn't I see myself in any of it? The only thing more impossible than staying... was leaving. I didn't want to hurt anybody, I wanted to slip quietly out the back door and not stop running until I reached Greenland.