May we grow old

Daron 2022-03-22 09:01:47

The heart is like being pressed against a big rock. I used to watch "The Lady in the Truck" and I thought that I might be living in that old age. Today, when I watch "Nowhere", I am very clear that I don't want this ending. From a fearless female literary youth to an ordinary woman who has integrated into the secular life, maybe it has changed over the years, but I am not a character in a bright story, and I admit that I have no guts.

I stayed with my parents for a whole year last year. I went through a lot in that year, including physical pain and mental torture. I grew two gray hairs and had a crack in my heart. But at the same time I am more accommodating, more lenient, and more indifferent than before. I began to think that it is good that people can live a normal and ordinary life.

What is the state of a woman in her 60s who has a painful situation, as if the pressure accumulated in her life can completely overwhelm a person at a certain moment. I remembered a neighbor aunt in Zhuhai. No one welcomed her as a guest. She sat there talking to herself, pouring out her dissatisfaction with her family and life and comforting herself. She was incoherent and nervous chattering, and she did not care about others The cold eyes, as if life has come to this day, all emotions must be revealed.

There is a 50-year-old aunt on Douyin who is traveling by car. She uses short videos to record her psychological feelings and the scenery along the way. She travels to escape from her husband who doesn't love her, and endures for her daughter for many years. Now she can finally enjoy her life and treat her on the road. It's a relief.

"A Land of Nowhere" seems to be about the helplessness of life. The RV keeps moving on the road, encountering different scenery, doing different jobs, and meeting different people. The theme has not changed. Finn, who loves her deceased husband, cancer sisters who like to collect stones, and the old man who is given to black hair by the white-haired man. They keep saying goodbye to different people, but because they are still on the road, so, there is no final goodbye, right?

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  • Swankie: I'm gonna be 75 this year. I think I've lived a pretty good life. I've seen some really neat things kayaking all of those places. And... You know, like a moose in the wild. A moose family on the river in Idaho and big white pelicans landed just six feet over my kayak on a lake in Colorado. Or... Come around a bin, was a cliff and find hundreds and hundreds of swallow nests on the wall of the cliff. And the swallows flying all around and reflecting in the water. So it looks like I'm flying with the swallows and they're under me, and over me, and all around me. And little babies are hatching out, and eggshells are falling out of the nest, landing on the water and floating on the water. These little white shells. That was like, it's just so awesome. I felt like I've done enough. My life was complete. If I died right then, at that moment, would be perfectly fine.

  • Fern: Bo never knew his parents, and we never had kids. If I didn't stay, if I left, it would be like he never existed. I couldn't pack up and move on. He loved Empire. He loved his work so much. He loved being there, everybody loved him. So I stayed. Same town, same house. Just like my dad used to say: "What's remembered, lives." I maybe spent too much of my life just remembering, Bob.