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"It's not like that. Birds, people can survive in real life. Birds, there are people who do frog jumping from deception to deception, and jump to death," the professor said.
——Oe Kenzaburo's "Personal Experience"

The world I face is actually countless worlds. But there is also such a world: people voluntarily merge their own world with other people's, and continue to devour more people, so this mixed world expands more and more, diluting the real individuals with different faces. All the small worlds, let themselves control human beings. Most people let this behemoth shrouding themselves and others around them let it go, and act as a tool for its rampage, helping it to continuously involve more people, especially newborns, so that they can be with themselves from birth. belong to the same world. After a long time, human beings no longer trust any other small worlds, and firmly believe that they will be eliminated by the powerful and unknowable time and space, and this "Great Harmony" world of their own is the only reliable way to adapt to all known and unknown. choose.

Humans are born with two worlds. It's just that someone turned a blind eye, intentionally or not. Many things become torment when your small world is violently against the outer world.

From the perspective of time, the concept of "world" is absurd. It cannot stand against time. Time flows like water. The face of "world" has always been deformed, and it has never been able to stand. Only spirit and ideas can be transmitted. No matter how far apart it is, it can always find its place in time and space. It's just that it may be buried deep - for example, a lotus flower that bloomed at a certain moment in a certain place a thousand years ago made people's heart pounding - then people in time and space may not know it, because the flower has already disappeared, but its aesthetics is Preserved, there are many ways that humans can evoke it: literature, painting, sculpture, etc. It is through the extension of various arts that the spiritual wealth of human beings can resist all erosion and obtain eternal life.

Human life depends on eternal time, and time gives the experience of human life. Everyone has a unique "personal experience", which is their own voice, and this experience builds up their own world. It's just that as people grow up, people's grasp and judgment of their own experience become vague and hesitant, until they give up completely. Slowly, "frog jumping from deception to deception, and jumping to death". Laura had intended to do so. But her own voice suppressed the surrounding.

Why do this? For example, when a group of us went to KTV, we were all HIGH, but suddenly she/he became silent, not singing or laughing ruined the atmosphere. Why has to be this way? It is rare for all friends to get together, and you are obliged to maintain this lively situation and not embarrass others. It's like Leonard said to Virginia that you are obliged to eat the breakfast that someone else made for you, after all, everyone else has been busy all morning for it. What's more, it's not too hard for a strong man - is it asking you to pick snow lotus and catch sharks - just sing and laugh, so that everyone can maintain the cuteness of the time at the moment, can't you do it with your willpower? Everyone thinks she/he can do it, but she/he really can't. Laura wants to make a cake for her husband's birthday. "It's so easy to make a cake, everyone has no problem," but Laura can't do it.

This is the inner world oozing blood. Not everyone can cope with life, and not everyone can enjoy worldly pleasures. But she/he is not ignorant of this kind of happiness. Richard said to Vaughan, "No other two people are happier than us." Sitting on the edge of the window, he recalled a morning when he was 19 years old, and clearly understood the love that was imprinted in the past. . So he wants to be a simple writer, recording the little things in life, "This towel, its smell, its texture, this thread, all our feelings, yours and mine, the past, the world everything of".

They all love the "world". Sister: "Just some unbearable dinners, just not the kind you envy." Virginia: "But I do envy." She really envy. She committed suicide twice. Everyone thought she hated this "world". In fact, she loved it better than anyone else, and she deeply loved the time of her past life. The more you understand life, the more you can dialysis this good, but the less you can endure the mediocre trivialities that sustain the short-lived existence of material life. This mediocrity kills time, it is a hindrance, but it is more of a maintenance. This is an eternal contradiction with no solution. She has tried to get her characters to give up death—correspondingly, Laura gave up suicide and chose to live: abandoning her children and family. No one would forgive her, and that was the price she paid for obeying her inner voice. This is the law of survival in this "world". Richard to Darrow: "I think I live for you." It was a painful thing for Richard. Dalloway looked for her sustenance from Richard, and she hoped to find a way out: "I only feel alive when I am with him." In this "world", people need to involve each other, To maintain each other in order to confirm the value of their own existence, to fight against the daunting nature of life. And it is because of this that the "world" will be stable, and that human beings will be able to develop and continue "normally". Those who destroy it are either abandoned by the "world" or actively abandon the "world".

This abandonment is not a tragedy, nor is it some of the pessimism often reported in the newspapers. Only by facing life can we understand life; only by understanding life, can we understand why we gave up on life.

Time flows, and every moment of the present becomes the past. We temporarily exist in the "world" with life, and eternal in time with spirit.

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  • Richard Brown: I had this wonderful notion. I took the Xanax and the Ritalin together. It had never occurred to me!

  • Richard Brown: I've stayed alive for you. But now you have to let me go.