The proud and inferior Asuka, the autistic and longing for others Shinji, the lieutenant who is entangled with his old lover, the doctor who is willing to be used by the commander, and the commander who just wants to fulfill his wife's wish. Their troubles are different, but they are equally lonely and depressing.
Life is lonely. If people can't fully understand others, there will be estrangement, inevitably hurting each other, and then causing pain. So the apostles will have an AT stand and people will close their hearts to protect themselves and be indestructible.
The high-level settlers also know this, so they plan to let the spirits of all people merge into the vast ocean of spirits. All souls mingle with each other, there is no other person, there is no separation between individuals, there will be no harm and pain, all souls are one, eternal or fleeting in happiness and contentment.
So people embraced the deepest pain in their hearts one after another: subordinates embraced by their secretly loved bosses, apprentices embraced by their beloved masters, commanders embraced by their wives, professors and students embraced... People rushed to flock to each other, no more Painful heaven.
But if there is no estrangement and pain, how can you be sure of your existence? How can people find themselves without being different from others? Shinji understands, and Asuka also understands: loneliness reminds one's existence as an individual. Therefore, they did not choose to sink into the sea of spirit, but continued to be human beings, embracing the many scars.
In all love and hate, loneliness increases unabated. The reason why Shinji wanted to strangle Asuka was because after escaping from the sea of lcl, his spirit was close to collapse, his loneliness was twisted and expanded, so love and hatred overwhelmed reason. But he finally stopped, he realized that as a human being must coexist with loneliness and reconcile with love and hate.
People always magnify the sadness or love that represents loneliness, probably to remind themselves subconsciously, not to forget this fateful loneliness.
"People's joys and sorrows are not connected, I just think they are noisy"
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