Recently, I suddenly remembered an article by Ripaska in the middle school Chinese textbook - "Man is a thinking reed". The author believes that in the face of nature, people are so fragile, only thinking can make people great. However, the film made me question: what if the reed lost its ability to think? Because in reality, nature can destroy people's bodies, and it can also deprive people of the ability to think. Even without considering disease factors, the decline of cognitive function of the brain is inevitable after people enter old age, but the magnitude and speed of the decline vary from person to person.
It is human nature to hope to gain and fear to lose. In the face of unfortunate encounters in life, adopting the logic of "losing the horse" is the best proof of this nature. But what if the magnitude and speed of loss were truly overwhelming, even more terrifying than death? What if you lost the ability to even fear loss?
From this, I thought of another movie about Alzheimer's disease - "Father Stuck in Time". The word "lost" has a hidden quality, and that is time. Regret and pain arise from comparing the present with the past. Anxiety and worry arise from comparing the future with the present. I don't know if animals also have a flowing concept of time, but I'm sure it brings joy to humans as well as pain. Therefore, the logic of "losing the horse" can not only be used as Ah Q's spiritual victory method, but also a positive attitude towards life. Focusing on the positive does not mean denying the negative, but dealing with the negative in a more constructive manner. Going back to the movies, the ending of "Alice" condenses the meaning of life into "love", and the ending of "Father" boils down the answer to "feeling the sun right now outside the window." I think that there is one thing in common between the two, that is, the pursuit and feeling of beauty after everything has passed away. A classmate once told me that life is a process of subtraction.
So maybe the sentence on the Internet should be reversed: only children need it all, and only adults know how to make choices.
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