Happiness never knocks at the door, it is happiness to avoid misfortune

Bulah 2021-10-13 13:05:43

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opened the mailbox and saw an offer lying there quietly. Countless times when the dream scene finally settled into reality at that moment, I was not as excited as I expected, but I couldn't help but remember the tears of Chris when he heard "You can still come to work in this suit tomorrow" s face.

Perhaps happiness will always come after countless torture and hardships.

In the past few months, I can’t say how hard my life has been. It’s just that I’ve been exhausted physically and mentally from the non-stop job interviews one after another. Although I never regret the impulsive decision to resign, I never thought that what I had to face was so many backlashes and unbearable plans. It was not until I finally received this twists and turns that everything was settled. . Looking back on this period of time, it was like a game that had been planned for a long time. My rushing and toiling was nothing but calculating. After passing through the levels, I would finally return me a dramatic happy ending.

Perhaps it was a similar situation that made me deeply impressed by Chris's various behaviors in this movie. I deeply understand his every hope and disappointment intertwined in his eyes, every firm and hesitant expression, every sentence is relaxed and heavy. Words. I know the 28 years of vicissitudes that Chris said when he was playing basketball with his son, "You have a dream, you must protect it".

However, the more I understood, the more deeply I felt sad.

Watching him and his wife happily looking forward to the future after buying a house of medical scanners with all his money, watching him go home with a heavy machine and face down with his complaining wife and a lot of bills to pay. When he was passing by the securities company, he saw the smiles on the faces of people in the securities industry and could not help expressing yearning. He watched him mutter to himself in defense when facing his wife's ridicule of his intern dreams, and watched him. In order to delay the payment of the rent by one week, he had to paint the walls himself and was forced to wear paint-stained work clothes and appeared in front of the interviewers in suits and leather shoes, watching him work harder than other competitors because he had to pick up his children early every day and leave school. Trying to buy time to contact potential customers without going to the water dispenser to drink water or even going to the toilet, watching him fight with gangsters and women to grab cars and even let his son in order to fight for a slum bed in a church to have a shelter with his son Lost the American Captain, watched him finally repaired the only remaining scanner that could save him, and then turned on the faint light to illuminate the entire room and his sleeping son. All these scenes showed me It is not the joy and joy that happiness is about to knock at the door, it is not the relief and relief of suffering that will eventually pass, it is not the persistence and perseverance that dreams will eventually come true, but it is clearly the incomprehension of why ordinary life is so heavy. Why is there so much fear in the fate of ordinary people? Simply put, what forced him to lose the family happiness that a family should have and have to pursue such an unattainable dream, even taking this absurdly as happiness to knock on the door?

Whether in the so-called evil capitalist society or the superior socialist society, what has never changed is that each of us must strive to grab as much material foundation as possible in order to build the so-called dignity of being born and not to live like a man. For a dog, equality and freedom are always to satisfy their hunger. Thousands of years later, no one can feel satisfied just by basking in the sun above his head like Diogenes, and no one can live with nothing but pride. We only have more to win respect. The source of all happiness lies in how much power we have. The problem is that the process of having power is often extremely difficult, so the road to happiness is extremely bumpy.

Menander, a poet belonging to this era, once said: I know that there have been so many people. They are not born rascals, but because of misfortune they have to become rascals. In fact, the so-called misfortune is the lack of sufficient power to allow them to obtain material security. For ordinary people, all dreams are for survival. What's more, Chris has to take care of his young son and prop up a decent sky for him. The desire to fight hard is especially strong, and moral constraints are not enough. It's a little tooth sacrifice only when you are full of wine and rice. For a person whose happiness always lingers outside the door, but misfortune always follows, the fear of struggle often replaces the desire for happiness. The purpose of life is not so much to achieve a positive meaning or to pursue it. It is better to say that happiness is just to escape misfortune.

Just as I instinctively rejected all good yearnings after being disappointed in life countless times. Even if the so-called happiness really knocks on the door, I will greet it cautiously and pessimistically, because what is hidden behind the door may be one The field is even greater sadness.

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Extended Reading
  • Giles 2022-03-23 09:01:07

    In fact, as long as there is hard work, there will be gains, even a little bit

  • Erwin 2022-04-24 07:01:01

    What an enviable father and son.

The Pursuit of Happyness quotes

  • Christopher: [while walking past a bus and to sell a bone density scanner] Hey dad, you wanna hear something funny? There was a man who was drowning, and a boat came, and the man on the boat said "Do you need help?" and the man said "God will save me". Then another boat came and he tried to help him, but he said "God will save me", then he drowned and went to Heaven. Then the man told God, "God, why didn't you save me?" and God said "I sent you two boats, you dummy!"

  • [last lines]

    Christopher Gardner: How many planets are there?

    Christopher: Um... 7?

    Christopher Gardner: Seven? Nine! OK, who's the king of the jungle?

    Christopher: The gorilla?

    Christopher Gardner: Gorilla? Nope. Lion.

    Christopher: Yeah, lion, lion. You wanna hear something funny?

    Christopher Gardner: OK.

    Christopher: Knock knock.

    Christopher Gardner: Who's there?

    Christopher: [starts be to become out of view] Shelby.

    Christopher Gardner: Shelby who?

    Christopher: Shelby comin' round the mountain when she comes, Shelby comin' round the mountain when she comes!

    Christopher Gardner: Hey, that's good.

    Christopher: Knock knock.

    Christopher Gardner: Who's there?

    Christopher: Nobody.

    Christopher Gardner: Nobody who?

    [Christopher doesn't respond]

    Christopher Gardner: Nobody who?

    [Christopher still doesn't respond]

    Christopher Gardner: A-ha-ha, that's a good one, I like that!