The more festive, the lonelier

Nico 2022-12-29 10:10:56

"Amber" said, "All love is sad, but even though it is sad, it is still the most beautiful thing we know." It also said, "Don't think about feelings so great and solemn, everything is just passing by. After your emotional shock, you have to complete your own journey."

The brief encounter originating from the Internet has a huge energy of love. On New Year's Eve, a festival of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, at least two world-weary people who are alone are warmed up.

In the lively festivals, there are always people who feel lonely, and their loneliness is infinitely magnified because of the happiness of others. So people came out to look for it, using various tools, the Internet, parties, and mobile phones, hoping to find a companion or prey.

A loser who broke up with his girlfriend for six years will still write to her, burying those sad feelings in his heart; he will still cry when the answering machine rings. He worked as a night shift clerk in a video store in LA, lived in a friend's house, and watched the unbridled sweetness of his friend and his girlfriend. It was as if he could see himself shining, shining.

Through the Internet, find a woman to spend the last day of the year, but how can it be so real? Reliable people are hard to find. The fat man with dandruff could only sit on the curb and sigh in the end. Depressed actresses who want to keep themselves warm are actually hard to hide the loneliness in their hearts. Even the aunt who talks gossip under the window is the same everywhere.

The closed, old theater bears witness to a short period of good times; a shoe that no longer fits in the street smells of silence. Although I must say goodbye, although I cried red-eyed in the bathroom, although there is only one hug left in my memory.

But the short-lived warmth in the past still gave people the power to move forward.

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In Search of a Midnight Kiss quotes

  • Wilson: Misanthrope seeks misanthrope. Honestly, if you respond to this ad then you are probably not the kind of woman I'd go out with. I guess I'm lonely and it's new years and I'm willing to embarrass the hell out of myself with this ad. About me: My girlfriends over the years have been intelligent and beautiful, in the end they have all broken my heart, whatever that means. My friend says I have to have a foto, so here it is. Talk to you soon. Wilson.

  • [first lines]

    Wilson: The midnight kiss. It's not just another kiss. It's all the hope of romance of the year culminating in just one moment. And that over-hyped kiss, in which there is so much calling, texting, I.M.-ing, planning, hurrying, drinking to make happen, is set at a moment when time itself takes center stage, when you can palpably feel the weight of the year to come, mix with the loneliness and missed opportunities of the years gone by.

    [pause]

    Wilson: For years I used to work at a video store, and on new year's, I would always deal with what I thought were my people... those brokenhearted soles that hated the whole pageantry of the night, the ones who wanted to quietly and privately wallow in their own self-pity, getting drunk on the fictional romance and heartbreak of others.

    [pause]

    Wilson: That was me... the lonely, hunkered-down type waiting for the night to blow over. But sometimes when you are so low you can no longer follow that routine anymore...