those sad young people

Jaunita 2022-10-07 19:48:16


At the beginning of "Those Sad Young People", Fitzgerald wrote: "Start with a person, and you will find, before you know it, that you have made a model; start with a model, and you will Found out that you're making--none of the characters. That's because we're all eccentric people, behind our voices and looks, more eccentric than we want anyone to know, or more than The extent to which we know ourselves. Whenever I hear a man claim to be an "ordinary, honest, and outspoken person," I bet there must be something sure and maybe bad about him that he wants to hide. He got up—and he claimed to be an ordinary, honest, outspoken person, and that was a way of reminding himself that he was hiding his true feelings."

Young is very prone to sadness. The fact that teenagers don't know the taste of sadness doesn't mean that youngsters don't have real sadness, it just means that what they feel and experience that can be called sadness has no weight in the eyes of older people. It's like, if you cry over the daffodils that were broken off, those who see you cry will not care. Thinking that this is not a big deal, and evaluating you may be a somewhat hypocritical person.
Some people's youth is lonely.
These people may be gifted with extraordinary talents; perhaps, they are just pretentious, thinking that they are from superman to peerless beauty; perhaps, they have grasped the secrets of the world prematurely, but people are not allowed to tell them. secret. It needs to be clear that this kind of loneliness can bring ecstasy, but it can also bring deep pain. If you are not strong enough, then you are not suitable for loneliness.

In 1928, the film "The Masses" was released. The 1930s and 1940s were the golden age of cinema, and in my opinion the most beautiful Hollywood. Actresses, actors, are all unparalleled good-looking. Female stars are especially good-looking and are truly elegant.

I sometimes wonder what the so-called growth is all about. It is to wear adult clothes, fall in love a few times, get married, have children, find a job, engage in a career that you are willing to pursue your whole life, your self-awareness and attitude towards the world and society in which you live... It's something like this What?

Perhaps the masses can be regarded as a kind of discussion on this issue.

A young man named John was just born and had high hopes. Father said, you will become a big man. He believed. That's why at the Wish Sharing Conference, I hypocritically said that my ideal is to become a big man. He was 12 then. At the age of 21, he came to New York, like other 7 million young people, he believed that New York could not do without him, because he was a big man. He looks down on those ordinary people. He describes his colleagues who work together. After working for a long time, the tone of speech has become the same. He insisted on attending classes at night. He looked down on people who did clown work. He took the first row of the double-decker bus as if he was reviewing his city. What happened later was that time proved that he was just an ordinary person. He also blended into the crowd he despised, clapping his hands to comedy films in the cinema, laughing until his stomach hurts, and at that time he was one of the crowd he didn't want to be.
From this perspective, how sad this movie is.

In the drama, the protagonist may have experienced all kinds of hardships, such as being attacked by monsters, being kidnapped by terrorists and forced to inhale harmful gases, giving birth to deformed children, and being unemployed, while the despicable villains are rising step by step, just beginning to be happy. life, but encountered war, and so on. These ordeals will not make the audience feel deeply depressed or painful, and there will be little compassion, because the audience knows that this is a drama, and this means that everything that is happening in front of you is fake, and everything will be in 2 Back to normal after an hour. Two hours later, they were in the bright light again, with smiling faces beside them, and the sweet smell of coke and popcorn in the air.
And the bad thing about this movie is, you know, what happened to John with the ridiculous eyebrows, it's real, it could be happening to you and me. From this point of view, you will be sincerely sad.

Is being young a bad thing?
Not really. One of the evidences is how many people yearn to be young again. If youth is not good, how can they want to go back to youth.

Is being confused in youth a bad thing?
Instead of thinking if it's a bad thing, it's better to go for a walk and experience more. everything will be fine. You see what I said, everything is going to be okay, not everything is going to be okay. Besides, wouldn’t it be boring to live a correct life all the time?

So why are some young people sad?
Zarathustra replied: "I love people."

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  • Junior: Why don't you never play with me any more? I like to play with you. Doesn't Momma like you? I like you. When I grow up I wanta be just like you.

    John: You still love me? You still believe in me, boy?

    Junior: Sure I do, Pop!

    John: We can do it, boy! We'll show them!

  • John: [laughing at a juggling clown] The poor sap! And I bet his father thought he would be President!