Before the drunk driving accident, the heroine was admitted to a prestigious school with excellent grades. Compared with her peers around her, it is not difficult to see the heroine's sense of superiority and a bright future beckons to her, but all this was changed by a car accident.
In fact, from another point of view, this life-changing event also gave the heroine an inner experience that cannot be compared with her peers. If everything goes on smoothly, with the heroine's rashness, recklessness, pride, and the unbearable lightness of life, I don't know how long it will last, and sooner or later, it will fall. It was precisely because of the accident that the heroine felt the weight of life and led her to think about issues that her peers might not think about.
After being released from prison, the female protagonist found the male protagonist's address based on the traffic accident information. She wanted to talk, communicate, and atone for herself in the form of compensation, but she still didn't have the courage to knock on the door of the male protagonist's house. Because of guilt and self-blame, she couldn't face her past self calmly. The night was getting dark, and the heroine was walking alone on the way back. She looked up at the planet in the sky that was as blue as the earth, and suddenly took off her clothes and lay naked on the snow, as if hoping to be honest with herself on that planet. She longed for redemption, longing for a new life. This scene is very touching, but the touchingness of the image cannot be described in words. The heroine's hand touching the snow was shaking, almost struggling. She knew that she was suffering from cold and pain, but she was willing, because at this moment, the physical torment could relieve her inner torment.
The heroine found a new job, and the relationship with the hero took a new turn. As things turned for the better, when shopping at the supermarket, the hostess happily picked up a box of colorful candies and began to regain her confidence in life. But when she met an old friend in high school, knowing that the other party now has a job and a beautiful girlfriend, a strong inferiority complex tore her inner wound. In fact, the value of human beings should not be divided into classes and judged on the basis of materialized interests, as secularly advertised. Even an ordinary cleaner can have his own beautiful and rich spiritual and inner world, and anyone with a noble soul should be respected.
"Yes. I'm important." Each of us should have the courage to say that. Our status may be humble, our status may be small, but that in no way means we are unimportant. Important is not synonymous with greatness, it is the commitment of the heart to life. - Bi Shumin
In fact, the heroine has a very unique soul. In her description of the rational understanding of the universe, we can feel a firm and almost dreamlike existence, just like the story of the astronaut she told the hero. Her voice, her smile, that "tick" sound she was imitating from nowhere with her hands, she was portraying it all with so much emotion and devotion that she looked like an angel. We can't despise any ordinary person around us, because we don't know what unexpected minds hide behind the seemingly ordinary appearance, and we don't know what they have experienced.
Our early explorers traveled west across the Atlantic. A lot of people think the earth is square, and a lot of people think that as long as you sail far enough west, a crash is a piece of cake. Those ships sail to unknown places, they don't take nobles, artists, merchants, they are made up of people living on the edge of life, lunatics, orphans, ex-convicts, prodigals... just like me, as a sinner , I'm not a candidacy for most things, except maybe this one, where I'm probably the best fit.
The heroine's declaration of going to Earth 2 shocked me. If there is really another earth, if there is really another me on another earth, I feel that there are many things that cannot be said. Maybe we never dare to face ourselves, maybe we are divided every day, and in order to maintain the delicate self-balance, we have been talking with the other world in our heart intermittently. If you are given such an opportunity, whether it be atonement or a correction, are you willing to accept a new beginning that may be a new one?
Those who are considered lowly, lowly, and insignificant in this secular world are precisely the ones who are least burdened by reality, the most suitable for taking risks, because they have nothing to lose. But at the same time, there is no one more eager for a new life than them. So this kind of adventure becomes an ideal, to throw away all the past and start all over again. Undoubtedly, this is in line with the needs of the heroine at this moment. The male protagonist said that in Plato's allegory of the cave, the first person who came out of the cave to see the outside world came back and was beaten by a group. The heroine said that Galileo was also burned to death. Faced with the unknown, most people remain vigilant, alert, and even hostile because they are afraid of paying the price and losing what they already have. Only those who are truly pure and full of ideals will bravely take the step of adventure.
Before I went they made me sign a statement that if I died I was responsible. How to deal with relics? I have nothing. Who are invited to the funeral? I don't know, it should be you. Burial or Cremation? Ashes are sprinkled directly into space, dust to dust, dust to dust.
When I heard this conversation, I suddenly felt envious. In fact, we all want to take off the mask on our faces, put aside the burden of reality, and long to live a true self. Some people are looking forward to a new life, while some people are full of disgust with themselves because of the pain they have experienced, and they don't want to see themselves anymore. Like the heroine's colleague who deliberately blinded his eyes, he completely lost confidence in himself. The hostess hugged him beside the hospital bed and wrote "forgive" in his palm. Not only do we have to learn to forgive others, but we also have to learn to let go and forgive ourselves sometimes. There are many redemptions that we cannot complete by ourselves and need mutual healing, such as the relationship between the female protagonist and the male protagonist, such as the relationship between the female protagonist and male colleagues.
The female protagonist gave the male protagonist the opportunity to go to Earth 2, hoping that the male protagonist can be reunited with his lost family on another earth. At the same time, the heroine also completely let go of her past because of the completion of redemption, put down her burden, and started a new life. The sun shines into the room through the window, and also illuminates the heart of the heroine, who carefully serves the fragrant and lovely flowers in the vase. At this moment, in an inconspicuous but beautiful moment in her life, she quietly met herself. She turned around and smiled happily, as if she had met any ordinary expected surprise in her life.
Our lives are full of surprises. The creatures that biologists can see are getting smaller and smaller, and astronomers are looking farther and farther, looking into the black night sky, into time, into the universe. But perhaps, the miracle of miracles, neither big nor small, but ourselves, is in sight. Can we recognize ourselves? Even if we could, would we know ourselves? What do we say to ourselves? What will we learn from ourselves? If we could get out of our bodies and look at ourselves, what would we say to ourselves?
Humans themselves come from the universe and return to the universe. In fact, all the exploration of the sci-fi universe finally returns to our hearts without exception. Outward and inward, no universe is bigger, deeper, more mysterious, and worth exploring than our own.
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