on the way

Everett 2022-04-21 09:02:41

In this impetuous society, career success seems to be the only pursuit of people's lives. But when failure comes, how do we deal with it? Facing the passing of career and love, the desperate protagonist Drew chose to commit suicide. But a journey of the soul came in time to save Drew and let him gain peace of mind.
"I'm fine." Drew keeps repeating this phrase at the beginning of the film. How self-deceiving! People are either sympathetic or contemptuous of Drew's failure, and Drew has to pretend that nothing has happened, too tired! But am I different from him? My sorrows, my worries, are they not also hidden deep? Aren't I also afraid of being ruthlessly ridiculed by others and worrying about my family and friends? Maybe many people will be like me and Drew, otherwise, how can the distance between people become farther and farther, and how can the world become more and more indifferent? It can only be blamed that our hearts are too fragile, the fragile dare not face others or look worried or contemptuous, and many things can only be faced alone.
"The world is so big, I want to go and see it." These ten-word resignation letters are very popular recently, and I admire this teacher's decision. A trip that just goes is not so easy, we have career, family and other factors to consider. During the road trip, Drew rediscovered the meaning of life and realized that he lost many opportunities to be close to his father because of his work. Why on earth do we want to travel? We are accompanied by all kinds of confusions in our lives, and we cannot solve our problems in the original environment. We need to change the environment and mentality, but now commercial tourist attractions have lost that natural feeling, and the increasingly crowded scenic spots may Let's confuse us even more. At this time, we are the only ones who can solve all this. As long as we don’t lose our original intention and our direction, we will not lose ourselves in the crowded crowd.
Drew's cousin Jesse was a drummer in a band when he was young, but he gave up music because of life and repaired computers in his hometown. Jesse, who was indifferent to everything at first, reminiscent of Drew's various interesting things about the band in high spirits. Jesse's youth was crazy, compared to my first half of my youth, which was quite normal: every day I sat quietly in the classroom and listened to the class, occasionally staring at the blue curtains that were flying all over the place in a daze. It seems that the first half of youth has been boring. But in the days of hard work for the college entrance examination, can you really ignore the time spent playing recklessly with friends? I remember a teacher in high school said: When you go to college, your life has just begun. At that time, it seemed that I didn't understand this sentence very well. When I arrived at the university, the collision of various ideas, the integration of various disciplines, and the handling of various relationships made me feel more deeply about this sentence, and it also filled me with fighting spirit for the future.
Life is a road, no matter how rough it is, no matter how bumpy it is, you must go on firmly. On the road of exploration, there will never be, and
we are on the road to a fiasco.

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Elizabethtown quotes

  • Drew Baylor: I see you right there. I see you right there.

    Claire Colburn: There you are.

  • Drew Baylor: You know, there is nothing greater than deciding in your life that things maybe really are black and white! And this guy Ben, who clearly takes you for granted, who serially takes advantage of you, is bad! And what I'm saying is good! See what I mean? You shouldn't be the substitute for anybody. This guy should be right here, right now, doing this

    [kisses Claire]

    Drew Baylor: .