The world is full of illusions, only pain is real and believable

Janelle 2022-04-24 07:01:06

In "Norwegian Wood", Nagasawa said to Watanabe: Never sympathize with yourself, sympathize with yourself for the deeds of despicable people. How should this sentence be understood? I guess it means to be tough on yourself, don't cry when you suffer a little bit, and give up timidly. Like Singh did to his two daughters.

However, no one likes suffering and hardship. Who doesn't want to wander around on a sunny day? Who doesn't want to lie in bed eating and waiting to die? The problem is that the vast majority of people don't have a choice. The vast majority of people lose in what Buffett calls the "ovarian lottery" lottery game as soon as they are born. Do rich kids learn to wrestle? Will they be happy to roll in the mud, endure the tedious day-to-day training and the exhaustion and pain of their bodies? Of course not, they can go to learn music, learn to paint, learn to ride horses, learn to golf, learn philosophy. They can also learn nothing. Why? Because they have options. For most commoners from the middle and lower classes, they have little choice in life. Just like the girlfriends of the two little girls in the movie, they were overwhelmed by housework since childhood, married at the age of 14, and then they were husbands and children. Here you cannot treat her as a living person, as if she is a symbol, a symbol, a pattern. What does it look like, what is its name, what does it like doesn't matter and nobody cares. The script has been written, and the props are in place.

So do poor people really have no choice at all? Not necessarily, you can trade your decades of hard work for a chance to come back. Like the way Singer found for her two women. It is true that this road is full of hardships and pains, and the chance of success is not so high. Maybe after more than ten years of hard work, there is still nothing. But if you fight, there is still a slim chance. If you don't fight, you will definitely be swallowed by a ruthless fate.

The little girl who got married in the movie said: I envy your father for letting you practice wrestling. Only you have the opportunity to change your life through your own efforts. The little girl is really a sensible person. She understands that there are too many illusions in this world, too many high-sounding words on the table. Eating these illusions wrapped in sugar will only make people weaker and weaker in exchange for a moment of mental paralysis. And only pain is a real existence, accompanying us like a shadow, always reminding us of our origin, always reminding ourselves to be strong, and using blood and sweat to fight a bloody road of class transition, so that we can share the spoils of social resources at the conference. Grab a piece of the pie. On the way forward, the only one we can rely on is our own strength, as Singer finally said to his daughter: Dad can't be by your side forever, you always have to learn to save yourself.

The similarity between India and China is that the population density is extremely high and the per capita resources are relatively scarce. So both societies are highly competitive societies. The law of the jungle, the law of the jungle, is the rule here. A happy, carefree childhood is desirable and agreeable, but I'm afraid it's just a luxury belonging to the wealthy and ruling classes. To exchange a happy and carefree childhood for a bleak and bleak adulthood, tossed around by fate and ruthlessly crushed by society, is not an optimal choice by any means. In this sense, I suddenly feel that I can understand those tiger mothers and wolf fathers who frantically buy school district housing, crazy chicken blood and young children.

In the movie, Geeta's stage is the wrestling ring, and her opponent is the Welsh, Nigerian, Australian. And for ourselves, every day and every moment we are in the wrestling ring of life, in school, in work, in life. In order to live better, those opponents who stand in our way, clench their fists and step over them with all their strength until they are trampled into the mud.

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Dangal quotes

  • Mahavir's Brother: Our daughters will never win a gold without conditions.

    Mahavir Singh Phogat: Medalists do not grow on trees. You have to nurture them. With love, with hard work, with passion.

  • Mahavir Singh Phogat: Every thing that destructs their attention from wrestling, I'll destruct that damn.