We live for what in our long life

Reymundo 2022-12-08 09:14:31

From middle school to the end of college, there is a question that has been haunting me in my mind - what is life for? Middle school is instilled in social collectivism, collective interests outweigh individual interests, and what does it matter if individual interests are sacrificed for collective interests? What does it matter if we only care about individual interests and ignore collective interests? But the subjects who account for the absolute number of society will not allow the expansion of individual interests. Only if the individual obeys the collective and the minority obeys the majority will they not be excluded. Is it right to serve most people? Which group has the right to measure this correct standard? Is it the majority of the group? Or does it represent a small part of the individual? In order to survive, the group will brutally oppress the individual to obey the collective will. The collective will is for the peaceful maintenance of the living body from generation to generation. What's the point of sustaining it? It's just a monotonous, tedious journey from birth to death, generation after generation. However, in the course of this life, human beings are affected by inheritance from generation to generation or acquired subtle or other factors. Human beings are emotional animals. The most difficult thing to separate from living and dying is emotion, whether it is family affection, friendship or love. The most important part of life. For me at least, these things are the roots of my life without which I would consider my life to be meaningless and unnecessary to continue. It is precisely because of concern that we cannot treat life arbitrarily.

Richard, the male protagonist in the movie, suffered from lung cancer at the very beginning of the plot. The whole movie is about him reflecting on his past nihilistic life step by step, trying to do things outside the scope of social rules, and trying to make a soul unfettered. The body is not bound, and the thoughts and behaviors begin to deviate from the socially prescribed track. If a person is about to die, doing what he wants to do in his life but has not done is also die in well. He is learning about his illness. After that, there was no choice to tell the wife and daughter that they only cared about their own affairs. The daughter announced that she was gay, and the wife laughed at her daughter's sexuality, and told Richard that she had cheated. A seemingly happy family, the inner feelings have been Corrupted and corrupted, he felt that each family member was immersed in his own business, he cared about them, and they ignored him, and there was no need to speak out. I don't want to use my illness to bridge this broken relationship. When he heard the news of his wife Veronica's cheating, Richard didn't show extreme anger, he just laughed at himself, let himself loose his bondage and cheated, smoked marijuana, and drank in class, but I don't think these practices made him happy , after all, this is not what he really wants, what he wants is to live out himself and stop following the rules.

Let's talk about marriage and love. After graduation, everyone is faced with the task of getting married and having children. This is a custom passed down by mankind for thousands of years, but what happens if you don't do it? If you don't do it, you will face all the relatives around you. Group oppression of friends, imposing collective ideas on our descendants. There is nothing wrong with marriage, but if it is a marriage without love, why do you want to conclude it? It is better not to do so. Marriage is a way of life that combines two individuals instead of group living after the differentiation of human groups. With the high development of human civilization, human beings have evolved into a civilized society, which has attached a sacred meaning to marriage. Loyal love is the cornerstone of marriage. But most people's love will be consumed by reality and life. At that time, people's desire is to want something new, new people enter their lives, feel the passion of life again, and feel that they still have the ability to love, but Confined to the marriage system, not wanting to lose a harbor and wanting to satisfy one's own desires, derailment occurred. It is people's desires at play, and they want to have both. But there are two contradictions: people should follow their own desires to pursue fresh prey? Abandon the wife, abandon the children. Or to be loyal to the morality and the sanctity of marriage that have been given to people in the evolution of civilized society. Andrei Sarkinsev's "No Love to Tell" is about a parent who gave birth to a child but did not give him affectionate love. This kind of childbirth was extremely irresponsible, and eventually led to the death of the child, and they and their new marriage partners still returned to the same indifference and alienation as their ex-husband and ex-wife years later. If there are no children, people can follow their own desires to follow a new lover, although the new love will eventually become the same as the old love, and life is a repetition day after day. Nothing new. The second is to uphold human morality and to spend the rest of your life with a wife or husband whose love has become affection. People like to give meaning to the object of love or love, that is loyalty. But does that meaning really exist? It's a way of self-deception that people use to make themselves happy.

After all, what do people live for? What do you think you are living for?

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The Professor quotes

  • Claire: The person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last. Love is not an end. It's a process through which one person attempts to know another.

    [pause]

    Claire: That's it.

    Richard: And, in a word?

    Claire: In TWO words, deceptively simple.

  • Peter: Why are you wearing sunglasses?

    Richard: I have cancer. I'm supposed to wear sunglasses in unusual places.