For adults, this comfort is very decent.
In Inside Out this time, Pixar patted your shoulder and said: it's OK to feel sad.
I am a person who often controls the emotional console by "sadness". This may be because I think everything is meaningless— -The universe just started with an inexplicable big bang. Thinking about everything is random, there is no need to exert too much effort to rejoice. A pessimistic adult is not easy to fake hi. But this often makes me feel flustered: Why does everyone in this world seem to be happy except you? Is it your fault?
For a time when sadness and fear were too strong, anger became my most frequent emotion.
Now Pixar is telling you gently, don't be afraid, there is nothing wrong, some people sit on the emotional control platform out of grief, and some people are anger directing their lives. All the happy memories finally bring some sadness, just because they have experienced some adventures together. (Don't think these little people are fooling the kids. These are the five most representative emotions finally determined by Pixar in consultation with Paul Ekman.)
Sadness is also a kind of emotion, and joy is not more noble than it. What's more, sometimes we need to listen to sad speeches and avoid the frenzy of unnecessary joy in order to understand the world more objectively and soberly.
Without fear of sorrow, you have the possibility of real growth. And growth is not something that only happens when you are twelve or thirteen. It may start with a bitter cry after a breakup, or it may come again in an insomnia after unemployment.
At the end of the film subtitles, a line appeared: Dedicated to the children, I hope they never grow up.
I think of the end of "Monsters Electric Company" fourteen years ago, when the big-eyed monster sent the little girl back and said: Go ahead, go grow up. Tears burst out from my eyes, crying like an idiot. That was also one of my growth moments.
However, even if you are a sad fool, I hope you don't become losers whose lives are controlled by disgust.
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