We cannot choose the things that will happen to us. But we can choose the attitude we will take toward anything that happens. ——Alfred A. Montapert
The first episode is the best interpretation of this sentence.
In the beginning, it all seemed so good.
Diane, the title partner of a well-known law firm, after decades of struggle, decided to buy a villa worth 1.5 million euros to start a new retirement life.
Maia, a happy rich second generation. His father, Henry Rindell, was an investment tycoon, and he had no worries about food and clothing since he was a child. He even said that his trouble was that when the parents of his classmates were in trouble in the family, he needed to make up a lie of "actually my parents are also in conflict" so that he could integrate into everyone. And her parents' willingness to accept her with her gay girlfriend (and a luxury suite for them to live in) is enough to show the tolerance and doting of the tutor. Just passing the bar exam, you can enter the top law firm - Diane's company, because Diane is her godmother. On her first day at work, Diane handed Maia a memento supporting her beliefs.
At a seemingly infinitely beautiful moment, the arrest of my father changed everything.
It turned out that the so-called investment tycoon was a Ponzi scheme. Diane invested almost all of his continuation into Rindell Foudation, and went bankrupt in a blink of an eye. Not only did the retirement villa become a bubble, but even the apartment he lived in could not be kept. And because she trusted Henry Rindell so much, she recommended almost all her friends to join this invitation-only fund scam without knowing it. Not only did she lose all her savings, she lost her job, but she also lost all her friends. . Suddenly, there is nothing.
When someone asks her, How are you? She looked so helpless.
How is my life suddenly so meaningless?
How can you work so hard every single day of your life and have nothing to show for it? Not a friend?
Maia, whose father was arrested, started work the next day with everyone yelling at her "Give me our money back!" and received all kinds of rude and threatening messages. And the job (originally obtained through the relationship) is naturally lost.
After being fired in front of everyone, she sat in despair on the road in front of the office building, staring blankly at the traffic lights at the intersection changing colors, and shed tears.
When we are unprepared, life hits us in the head, what should we do?
This is my favorite part of the first episode.
When Maia was chased by people in the company for money and fled into the bathroom to cry alone. Lucca shows up and she says this to Maia.
Harden yourself.
Ignore what people say.
Keep your head down and keep working.
Work is your friend.
Don't watch TV, don't look at the internet.
Do you have a book? Then read it. Keep it with you all times.
It's hard. But it ends.
When we are unprepared, life hits us in the head, what should we do?
And that, I think, is the message The Good Fight is trying to convey to us.
WE FIGHT BACK.
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