Jean Do Bauby, the former French editor-in-chief of Elle, a talented middle-aged writer who is "ambitious but cynical", paralyzed by locked-in syndrome, and the physical body, like a diving bell, traps him heavily in his own body . Except for one eyelid, no part of his body can move freely. However, such a body did not become the shackles of his freedom. "I still have two things, my imagination, my memory. I can imagine many things, anyone, anywhere, I think of Maldini's waves, meeting the woman I like, and we lie in the sunset kisses on the sandy beach, the sound of the wind and the waves. I can imagine everything, childhood dreams, adult ambitions... Now I know who I am, for me, love is like that Beauty is a fatal temptation..."
However, for many of us who are healthy and normal, they are always trapped and locked by their free flesh. Although you can walk, the range of walking cannot exceed the two points and one line between work, school, home or dormitory; although you can speak, what you can express is not necessarily your inner voice. Do you feel the heaviness of the diving bell following you? Every day, living in a high-paced city, walking in a hurry. Work, entertainment, and family fill all living spaces, and the spiritual world gradually becomes a ruin. No more thinking, no more dreams, no more passion, and follow the established trajectory of adult society. Just live between sunrise and sunset, every day, and then every day, so life gets old day by day... life, apart from the heavy material composition, what is left?
Spirit has more powerful power than material, sometimes, it is even like a drug that makes people unable to extricate themselves. I believe that only those who have experienced the spiritual feast will understand. I think, Jean Do Bauby must be an idealist at heart. Jean Do Bauby, who was lying in the hospital ward, had shrunken limbs, crooked mouth and tongue, and gauze covered his right eye. In the end, he was sutured by the doctor with needles and threads. Only his left eyelid could communicate with the outside world. With the patient training of the phonographer and the careful assistance of his friends, he blinked his left eye, describing his inner world laboriously but delicately, letter by letter, with the only life force, and wrote an unusual memoir— - "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly". A person who can fight bravely in the face of adversity must have a strong heart. When the external material foundation is disintegrating like a snow mountain, he can still live freely in his spiritual world like a butterfly. So, the reality of struggling with a diving bell-like weight.
With more "idealism" and less "materialism", life can be more free and colorful, and less heavy and sad, right?
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