When a young life was abruptly ended in black due to a sudden change, how should the rest of the people face her?
Is it possible for a life to be completely erased because of an overly strong ending? some. "People were so focused on her death that they didn't even want to mention her life." But what does this forced separation mean to those who once loved her dearly and her vividness was deeply etched in the traces of life?
What happened is there, Kitty's smile and all-night talk have been woven into the life of young Bill, to erase a person is to paint away the days and nights associated with it, and those days are empty, As that person disappears, a part of our own life becomes nothingness.
Yet man is also made up of the past to some extent. When this person is obsessed with the truth of the past and is unwilling to let go and bury the past easily, he is actually looking for his present self.
Why is Bill brooding about the media's misrepresentation? From the perspective of a media person, the truth is not the most important thing, but the thoughts and effects implied by the story are the key. - "This has entered the textbook and has become the subject of scholars' discussion, and it profoundly shows the current America." , the editor said confidently. If Kitty is dead anyway, does it matter to Bill that there are 38 indifferent witnesses there?
"My life, many of my subsequent choices and the way I see the world have been influenced by this, and it's all based on -- it's real." What if it's fake? Just like the heroine of "The Necklace" found out that it was a piece of glass ten years later, the noodles of "Once Upon a Time in America" found out that the death of her friend was just a lie after a lifetime of guilt. The anger, hatred, sadness, and guilt of people have always been in vain, and the reasons for maintaining them for decades have suddenly become a joke. The nothingness of objects is one of life's greatest absurdities.
But the problem is, my life has already happened. Although the real reason for hatred has never existed, my hatred is real, and the decades of hatred supported are also real time. Hatred does not exist because the object of hatred is cancelled, but how to face the life after hatred is suddenly hollowed out? How do you explain your previous life and actions?
"If it's not..., then what was I... for?" Was that me before or wasn't it me? What am I for? What does he have in common with me now? Should I continue to choose hatred?
Here, hatred becomes a choice. It is no longer the rigid "cause-effect" stimulus that it once was, but a choice one makes in order to place meaning in one's life. There are two choices. If you choose not to continue hatred, it means a complete break with the previous life and admitting the meaninglessness of the past. It requires a person to resolutely let go, and it requires a person to have the courage to say "My past life may be. It's all wasted, but at least it's starting now." If you choose to continue hatred, you need to weave a reason and make up an object, because your past is unified with the present and the future, and at least the meaning of life so far can be guaranteed and continue to persist. At the end of your life, if you make up The lies are paralyzed well enough that I can say "I've never been in vain in my life".
Faced with the object nothingness that fate suddenly throws in the middle, people either abandon their past self, or live in deception.
For Bill, if the witness were not indifferent, and if Kitty had been accompanied by friends when she died, the thrill of "she could have died" would have been much less, and her dying grief a little less. "People didn't realize it was an attack due to some misunderstanding, people who did call the police, but Kitty died" is far less regrettable and grief. Then maybe Kitty will not be such a sensitive taboo in the nerves of the family, maybe people are more likely to miss her and tell future generations about her beauty and liveliness, rather than forever immersed in the huge horror of death.
The investigation into the truth of death finally became a journey of "survival". Bill gradually understands that the sister who understands him the most since he was a child, and who talks with him all night, encourages him not to stop asking "why", turns out to be a dazzling star on campus, she is humorous, smart and bold, she drives a red car with friends Playing in New York, she has a gay sex. Yet newspapers describe her only as "a bartender". Perhaps the biggest pity after a person dies is that her life is also erased. Others keep silent about life in order to ease the pain of death. But it can't be done for Bill who loves her deeply, he can't stop missing her, which leads him to keep approaching her most real life process.
How can those who are left be truly happy? Is it possible for them to be "let alone"? Is it really possible for a person to "let oneself go"? I don't think it's possible. At least, Bill didn't want to.
No matter how a person dies, his/her life itself is something to be missed. The beauty she left in your life should not be forgotten. Remember her as she is, and look directly at the part of yourself that has been accomplished because of her existence and passing. It is everyone's salvation for themselves. It was Bill's deep transcendence.
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