Hidden in the city

Jerald 2022-03-16 09:01:01

He was wearing an old blue plaid shirt and white jeans, leaning on the magic bus. He tilted his head, with a gentle arc at the corner of his mouth.

He just read a passage: "I have experienced a lot, and now, I seem to understand what happiness is. Do a really useful job, then rest, enjoy nature, read, listen to music, love the people around me."

The stretched smile was especially brilliant against the blue sky and white clouds above his head. All his anger and hatred seemed to melt away at this instant.

He is a young college graduate with excellent grades, and Harvard's law department is also in hand. But he gave up all this, that bright and bright future.

He left his wealthy family, donated all his savings, burned cash, and destroyed his ID and bank cards. He wants to erase all traces of him in this materialistic society. He hates this society, hates hypocritical humanity, and the lies of his parents. In order not to be polluted by human society, he walked into the barren land alone.

After two years of wandering, on the road, I met so many real people and real things. He consoled them, but he still couldn't console himself. He stubbornly refused the kind advice of those people. If you choose the path, you have to go down firmly, just as I thought. He changed them and brought their warmth to move on.

When he read that paragraph on the side of the magic bus in the wilderness, showing a childlike smile in the sun, I thought that he had decided to go back, just as he had left at the beginning. He forgave his parents. He also understands that only by learning to forgive can you love. Only when you love, the light of God will shine on you.

Unfortunately, he did not have a chance. In many cases, the growth we have paid has been too painful. He accidentally ate potato roots and died of hunger due to digestive disorders. He couldn't go back. At the moment of death, there were unpredictable clouds above his head. He smiled and returned to his parents' arms. He wrote the last sentence: HAPPINESS REAL ONLY WHEN SHARED.

Someone understands, happiness, and someone shares, that is true happiness. His understanding comes at the cost of life. It's a pity, but it's worth it. No one can replace our experience. I know that he just wants to live his life the way he likes. He just wanted to step on the earth with his own unique traces.

For life, we can have our own choices. Don't give up your choice for someone else's mocking look. Those well-intentioned advice may not be correct. The same is a choice, who knows which is right and which is wrong. If you choose, you are responsible for yourself. You can't choose a family to be born, but you can choose a lifestyle; you can't choose a social background, but you can choose some small corners that belong to your ideal country. A certain persistence is just to make oneself live happier.

I seem to have been labeled with personality. You are different from others. There are always boring people who will comment on your life, as if their life is the right way in the world. At a certain time, I was ashamed of such a difference. But, why must I be like you? I'm fine now, that's enough. Later, it was so relieved.

With choices and persistence, I have a long way to go. Fortunately for him, I knew that the ancients had clouds and were hidden in the city.

All the beautiful things are done in two words. Your heart is the real utopia.

God gives happiness to all things in the world, and happiness is everywhere.

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Into the Wild quotes

  • Carine McCandless: Chris was writing his story, and it had to be Chris who would tell it.

  • Walt McCandless: Don't you walk away from me, woman! Woman!

    Billie McCandless: Kids! Look what your dad is doing to me!

    Walt McCandless: For God's sake, look what your mother is making me do!

    Billie McCandless: Fuck you! I hate you!

    Walt McCandless: There ain't gonna be no party. I'm gonna cancel Christmas this year.

    Billie McCandless: Cancel Christmas? Who do you think you are? God?

    Walt McCandless: That's right! I'm God!