Who am I, where am I from, and where am I going. This ultimate problem in life plagues most people, and the first one is the question of "who am I".
It seems that this issue is being discussed in all Hollywood movies I have watched, such as my favorite "Bourne Shadow" series. Spy is of course the profession that needs to remember the identity the most. If there is "identity anxiety", it will not be able to complete the task, and it will even lose its life.
We may not have to face such extreme inner questioning, but the question of "who am I" has never stopped for a day. Socrates said, "Know yourself." Kant believes that people have the ability to be free morally, and people have the ability to be responsible for their actions. A real person has no reason not to think about the question of "who am I".
I often feel lonely. Like all characters who need to overcome inner conflicts, struggles and darkness, they have to face their own shadows before being reborn. No matter if this shadow comes from childhood or something else.
I saw a movie called "Glass Castle" in Berlin, which was based on a real story. The movie takes the eldest daughter as the protagonist and tells about her unique family. The mother is an amateur painter, and the father is alcoholic and romantic. The family often moves. The mother is addicted to painting and completely ignores family responsibilities. The young daughter I had to step on a stool to cook, but was accidentally burned. The identities of mother and daughter are reversed. The mother is like a child who needs to be taken care of, and the daughter is forced to learn to be independent. Dad, I have always had a dream to build a glass castle, but it has never been built. He teaches his daughter to swim, which is completely a "jungle" life criterion, regardless of her daughter's panic and struggle, until she learns in fear.
The four children had never received enough care in the secular sense. They hugged each other to warm up and cheered each other until they grew up. The eldest daughter was admitted to New York University and finally left this "home".
She abandoned her parents’ bohemian values, lived in a high-end apartment, dressed in a formal dress and went to a high-end restaurant to eat with her rich second-generation boyfriend. Although the conversation was dull, she also decided to be patient—no life is without faults, this She knew it well. At the same time, her parents lived in an abandoned house.
Her childhood life has always affected her. She remembered lying with her father in the snow and watching the stars, running in the fields, and having the pure heart's calling and pride. Her mother never doubted her choice. She painted for a lifetime, even when she was wandering on the street.
"You were born to change the world, not to follow the trend."
It's hard to do, and it's even harder to let go. As I always struggle between mainstream and non-mainstream values. Yates talked about a couple in "Road to Revolution", they want to change, "Paris" is their dream. For freedom, she died. This book shows me that life is better than death, because it is so real. Such stories are not uncommon, but the outer shell is different, the time and place are different, and the inner emotions are the same. They all call for freedom and cannot. To be free often pays a huge price.
At the end of "Glass Castle", they finally reached a settlement. At the end of the movie, a real video was played. In the movie, the original parents of the prototype looked like a sketch of the unfinished glass castle. My mother was wandering on the streets and painting. I was moved to tears. I have seen the struggle of the same kind, and I have also seen the happiness of the same kind follow the heart.
No matter where they are fleeing or rushing to, they are still traveling freely, traveling wildly, and never looking back. I know that no matter where you and I are, I will never look back.
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