Life doesn't need people to understand, it only needs you to love

Ashly 2022-04-19 09:02:14

Sitting in front of the desk every night, looking up, you can see the poster of "Love in the Big River" on the closet, the lush trees, the dazzling sunlight, the graceful curve drawn by PAUL's fishing line in the air, and the sentence As the saying goes, "Life doesn't need people to understand, it just needs you to love."
Emotionally, I hate being stared at by others with surprised eyes and asked "Why don't you...". In the face of this kind of "good advice", I felt that the integrity of my life was being roughly stripped away. People always regard a way of life that is different from their own as heresy and strongly express their incomprehension or even slander, in order to quickly distinguish between high and low. why is it like this? Why can't we learn from NORMAN, learn from their fathers, who don't understand or agree with PAUL's way of life, and finally chose a simpler and closer to the essence of life. Don't ask HOW or WHY, just love.
Paul is dead, as my brother said, life is not art. But there were such beautiful moments in his life, that time fishing, the boy standing against the light in the fast-flowing river in the sun, the huge fish in his hands, the innocent and almost silly smile on his face... All of this has existed before, happened before. There is also the care of my brother and father. Although I can't understand it, I still can't stop the family and love...
Paul's life has been worth it.

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  • Older Norman: [narrating] My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things - trout as well as eternal salvation - came by grace; and grace comes by art; and art does not come easy.

  • Paul Maclean: [to Norman] Oh, I'll never leave Montana, brother.