I want to be an ordinary person with no stories to tell

Morgan 2022-04-20 09:01:49

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Life is full of suffering.

Everyone likes to listen to and read stories. And people with stories can't live a peaceful life. The best stories are always full of joys and sorrows. I would rather be a listener to others than have a life without stories. What's more, even the day-to-day life can trap your soul longing for rest with all kinds of troubles and cumbersomeness - I hope you don't leave me with even a little episode, and let me be the most boring and uninteresting person in the world.

Going out of Africa begins with entering Africa; losing begins with gaining. This stubborn Danish woman accepted the bad news that God gave her again and again with great calmness, gave her wings, then let her fall from the sky, and finally stomped on her head. She was infected with a venereal disease, cheated, and abandoned by her new husband; the child she wanted was her own because of the venereal disease, and she has since gone away from her; the farm she devoted all her life to was destroyed by fire after the only big harvest three years later; the wind that loved her The same man came and went silently, and when he decided to protect her for the rest of his life, the jealous God took him back to heaven. She took the blow gracefully again and again, like the waves crashing against the rock face, but she was not rewarded by fate. Everything she had was taken away, the title of baron, the wealth of the family, her own children, the fruits of her labor, and the love of her life.

Fortunately, in the white society, after she lost everything, she was respected by the upper class. If she was even more unfortunate to be born in China at that time, she might only be reduced to the next Xianglin's wife.

However, character still determines fate. She is as strong as a man, but more flexible than a man, so she will choose such a husband, so she will attract such a man, so she is so good but she has to endure loneliness. Being a weak person in the world is often the most powerful answer. Because the task of the strong, like the wise Karen, is destined to tell a story, telling a magnificent, ups and downs. This is indeed a cruel joke that God has played on us.

When she was forced to leave Africa and return to Denmark, she was sitting in an empty big house, which was once filled with silk satin, brocade clothes and jade food, exquisite velvet sofas, beautiful gauze curtains and ancestral alarm clocks... ... All kinds of prosperity have been sold, she told him calmly, she prefers the simple feeling now, in fact, she never needs so much material and luxury. Indeed, with him, what else is missing? After a person walks around, there are endless things they want to possess, but on second thought, what they hold in the palm of their hand are all floating clouds. I have also started to have this heart disease for a while now, and I began to want to sell everything, put down all my belongings in a trolley case, and go to the ends of the earth where I want to go. If less is gained, more is confused, I hope a simple life can bring me long-term peace.

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Out of Africa quotes

  • Denys: I won't be closer to you and I won't love you *more* because of a piece of paper.

  • [about to leave Africa, Karen Blixen gives Denys' compass to Farah]

    Karen Blixen: This is very dear to me. It has helped me to find my way.

    Farah: Thank you, Msabu.

    [She goes to board the train. Looks back at him]

    Karen Blixen: I want to hear you say my name.

    Farah: You are Karin, Msabu.