friend, lonely

Lesley 2022-09-20 08:08:22

Before a person meets friends, he is a lonely existence. Depressed, helpless and even denying themselves.
The little girl in "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" is such an existence. Born into a middle-class family with living parents, everything seems normal on the surface. But she couldn't find the meaning of life, and she had a secret plan to end her life in 165 days, when she was 12 years old.
By chance, she met the concierge of the building, a vulgar-looking, bloated woman. The porter happily named her cat after a character in Tolstoy's novels, and maintained a very good reading habit, even though she was seen by others as a porter doing a lowly job.
So, when she was with the porter, the little girl felt happy; the accidental death of the porter made the little girl realize the value of life.

People running on the streets of the city always have too much helplessness in order to maintain their lives. This kind of thing starts every morning, getting up early, the car is crowded, and the commute to get off work with no end in sight, we are no longer ourselves, and the elegant life is so impetuous. Rape, living without grace, people become slaves of life. At first, I still feel the pain of hesitation. Year after year, the soft heart is tortured into a stone heart and then completely numb.

You can also try to interpret life in another way, fuck social values, fuck hypocrisy, benevolence, righteousness and morality; friends, you can also create and find them yourself, it can be a book, a song, a An essay, a movie.
For the luxury of a confidant, people need to think a little bit. If you get it, I am lucky; if you don't, I will die.
Dance like no one appreciates it. How can it make you happier? Enjoy freedom or change yourself for rumors.

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The Hedgehog quotes

  • Paloma Josse: Planning to die doesn't mean I let myself go like a rotten vegetable. What matters isn't the fact of dying or when you die. It's what you're doing at that precise moment.

  • Renée Michel: Happy families are all alike.

    Kakuro Ozu: Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

    [Quoting from Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina']