Trapped by time

Cleora 2022-03-21 09:01:02

At the age of 15 I found it difficult to swim and gave up swimming. When I was 18, I met someone you like and asked you to go swimming. You had to say "I don't know how". At the age of 18, I found it difficult to learn English and gave up English. At the age of 28, I found a great job but had to be able to speak English. You had to say "I don't know how to do it". The more troublesome you are in the early part of your life, the more you are too lazy to learn, the more likely you will be to miss the people and things that fascinate you, and to miss new scenery. ——"Kang Yong, Kind Messages to the Cruel Society"

Every day I get up at the same time, meet the same people, say the same things, do the same boring work, and walk the same path...Life is suspended here One day, the plot is set, and then repeat, repeat, repeat...
In fact, isn't this every day for each of us?
But we will grow up, we will be old, we will die...
Time will not pause for us for a second, will not pay for every minute we spend, just when I write this article, you see, Time passed silently.
Regarding the next second, we always have a lot of speculations, always inspired by great people, there are infinite possibilities, but I sit in the room and listen to the ticking seconds, what I expected or unexpected , Nothing happened.
I did not become a martial arts master, did not think of an apple, but my day has passed and I will never come back. However, I don't look forward to tomorrow at all.
When anticipation disappears, when the next minute becomes within reach, tomorrow this beautiful word becomes meaningless.
But Phil has no tomorrow. He only has today day after day.
How should he spend it?
He chooses to have an affair, choose to spend money like earth, choose to excite and take risks, choose to kill and loot. After all the crazy things have gone through, the great satisfaction can not conceal the emptiness of his inner despair.
So he chose to die. But this must not be his most desperate moment. When he tried thousands of deaths hundreds of times, and was still waking up on time at six o'clock every day, he must have been unafraid of death. It wasn't until so many nights that he kept witnessing the death of an old man with his own eyes and was helpless, and he suddenly understood how important it is today, at this moment.
He began to walk different paths, see different scenery, learn different knowledge and skills, and help different people. Then, everyone was pleasantly surprised to find a different him. Kind as him, generous as him, enthusiastic as him, genius as him, romantic as him, gentle as him...
Yes, these are him, these are all he has used so much today to evolve himself Become a better person. He succeeded, he helped all the people he could help, learned all the things he could do for her, and finally he got the blessing of everyone, there is a happy ending, a happy ending "today".
When Phil said, "Last night was the end of the long yesterday", tears filled my eyes. No one can empathize with the pain and struggle that Phil has gone through and put in so much effort.
Everything is like a long dream, in this dream we see the infinite possibilities of a person a day. Maybe you will miss a lot in one second late, or you will meet many people in your life when you walk down the street. Maybe, the piano you learn to play today will touch her heart tomorrow...
What Phil experienced was the test of God. Today, he must have a full score to enter tomorrow. This is God's cruel preference for him. So he had to force himself.
As for us, no one asks us. If we live imperfectly today, we won't give you tomorrow. Since there is no one to prevent the arrival of tomorrow, then let us waste it as much as we can. Anyway, tomorrow will be tomorrow, there will be so many tomorrows. As a result, we become mediocre in the day-to-day dullness, becoming a boring person who runs counter to our ideal self.
I was suddenly sentimental because I discovered that it was not Phil who was really trapped today, but myself. I think there are countless tomorrows, but in fact I haven't even started today.
Maybe today I could finish reading the unfinished book, I could breathe more of today’s fresh air, I could grow a pot of flowers, I could take a fragrant bubble bath, I could find one that I’ve never walked through but is very beautiful Or, you can start a new field of exploration...
When I am complacent about the handy tomorrow, I am the one who is really trapped by time.

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Groundhog Day quotes

  • Phil: You want a prediction about the weather, you're asking the wrong Phil. I'll give you a winter prediction: It's gonna be cold, it's gonna be grey, and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life.

  • Phil: Do you know what today is?

    Rita: No, what?

    Phil: Today is tomorrow. It happened.