In the turbulent 1960s Europe was wandering, hippie, drugged, spent freehand and crazy youth, met under-the-radar artists who were addicted to alcohol and drugs, met Bohemian girls with long curly hair and gypsy shawls hitchhiking all the way from Madrid To Rome to Paris to London. . . Then he returned to his hometown, found a career, got married and had children, and lived his whole life.
Barney is a man of righteousness, a Shanghai faction, and has many friends in Rome, but he, like most hippies, is weak, lack of guts and balls, perhaps because of the conservative and practical Jewish education, he has never really adhered to the spirit of hippies , he has a living career, always has the plan to get married and settle down, and finally returned to China.
I have to say that this kind of Jewish education is really similar to traditional Chinese education. This also explains why the hippie movement, which has spread half the world, has no effect on China. Our education has not always emphasized the safety of people. , get married, have children, continue the family, and seek a stable career so that you can enjoy your old age? We are always full of fear in the face of the instability of life, and we do everything possible to change this, to make life more stable and under control. Not only mainland China, but even Hong Kong and Taiwan, which were in contact with the outside world at that time, were not affected much. Only Zhou Shihui in Yi Shu's "The Story of the Rose" wandered to Sri Lanka for roses, and he had a little hippie on him. The shadow of , this is probably also the projection of Yi Shu's wish that he dared not dare to do.
And his friend Butch is much braver, he spends his life avoiding responsibility, even if there are many opportunities to get the novel published, get a pay, he gives up, intentionally or not, he always screwed up Various opportunities to "get back on track", Barney was still in Europe years after he returned to Canada to work, he was still in Europe years after the hippie movement, and he used his life to realize the hippie spirit, even dying. Drunk all the time.
But Barney was still lucky that he met Miriam instead of getting into a tedious, mutually miserable marriage; he had the courage to pursue Miriam instead of letting that romantic encounter just be a date. Sighing when he was not married, he finally got a big gift - "marry for love".
He's still a normal, traditionally masculine chauvinist, and he doesn't think Miriam needs any identity other than wife and mother; he thinks Miriam's new job is pointless, and he'd rather drink beer and chew Peanuts watches hockey broadcasts; he's also occasionally screwed up for one-night stands that ruin their marriage.
People's life is always "just like this" over, no one will think about what he will look like when he is old, maybe bald, maybe cloudy eyes, maybe bloated, maybe Alzheimer's. . . No one has a life without regrets, what Barney regrets, maybe he overdosed on drugs and forgot to go to the appointment, killed his first wife, maybe never knew Butch's life or death, maybe hurt My favorite, Miriam, probably hated that when he still wanted to do a lot of things, he had already become forgetful and lost his mind, but he had no chance.
I want to say that if you love someone, you must tell him early, what you want to do must be done as soon as possible, but we will always have regrets, disappointments, and things that cannot be accomplished. We are always powerless in our own lives. .
So "just like this" is over, at least it's always good to love.
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