After all, no one is there

Gerard 2022-03-22 09:01:05

At that time, I liked playing Immortal Sword IV, and I always remember Xuan Xiao said that even the three cold weapons can't resist the desires that people give birth to in the emptiness. In the end he fell into a demon and was sealed on the bottom of the sea. I always think that desire is a terrible thing, it makes people hypocritical, greedy, and beyond recognition. This is a story that does not agree with secular values, and therefore escapes from the wilderness to find the meaning of existence. The protagonist is brave and strong. The world is dirty and ugly, the responsibilities that are forced to bear are too heavy, and the framework limited by planning is like a spider web. All this is so ridiculous and distorted, so I don't want to look anymore, I don't want to listen anymore, I don't want to be in it anymore, so I want to escape. If one is to stay away from the crowd, no longer be bound by the world, and walk alone in the vast world, then how to prove the meaning and value of survival. This is a question I am always thinking about. In other words, it's all meaning to come and go in Qianxun. Why do we live. Or it can be said that since the word value was coined, it has artificially put an invisible whip, rein and shackles on the world. I am not afraid to speculate with malicious intent. This is the evil fruit thrown by the ruling stratum for convenience. From the day you accept it, morality has been tied up, and freedom has been lost since then. So putting aside the "value" of unclear position, what is the meaning? If you come alone, leave alone, have nothing to do with the world, or just to feel the world, maybe you can understand. It's just that he has been nailed to the cross of the world since he was born. If he doesn't agree to be bound by morals, but he does have many entanglements with this troubled world, then what is the meaning and what is it for? This is a question I can't figure out. Sometimes I think that there may be someone or something that makes you feel extraordinarily beautiful, but this is just the meaning of his existence to you, what is the meaning of your own existence? Money is not the dirtiest thing in the world, but it makes people weak. So he abandoned the car, burned the money, walked into the desert, and lived by his own needs, not his desires. "What do I want" and "what do I need" can be very deep. I can survive as long as I have three full meals, but I want TIFFANY and Maserati when I'm full. Humans are animals that will never be content. Desire will drag you down in this way, but do you have the courage to put aside everything and walk into the open space, and then talk to your soul without any interference. Even if you are alive and corrupt, it is a sad thing not to look directly at your heart. "I want you" and "I need you" are not the same. This is the difference between what might be nice if you are there and what you can't if you don't. Most of the people encountered on the way Just want it. Just like people always say, no one can live without leaving. If the actor's sister just wants him, does his parents, who lived like a dead body after him, need his feelings? But it's just grief, and it's not so grief that I can't live. It seems cold to say so, so how do you distinguish between needs and wants between people? I tend to have no one who really needs the other, it's just that they may want it more urgently. Well, it's really too cold. In the end, the protagonist shed tears at the sky before he died, thinking of his loved ones, and wondering what it would be like if he returned to them. He said "happiness only with shared". Is this the meaning he found in the end? In fact, it's still a kind of surrender. After all, human beings are still unable to completely break away from the world. It is so sad that the meaning of existence must be reflected in others. "So you abandon the approval of mankind, rise up together and let you fly away." Did Rimbaud finally get real freedom?

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  • Ranger Steve Koehler: Next available is May 17, 2003.

    Christopher McCandless: 12 years? Twelve years - to paddle down a river?

  • Ron Franz: I'm going to miss you when you go.

    Christopher McCandless: I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things.

    Ron Franz: Yeah. I am going to take stock of that. You know I am. I want to tell you something. From bits and pieces of what you have told me about your family, your mother and your dad... And I know you have problems with the church too... But there is some kind of bigger thing that we can all appreciate and it sounds to me you don't mind calling it God. But when you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines through you.

    Christopher McCandless: Holy shit!