Sorry We Missed You | Being a slave was your choice, wasn't it?

Dangelo 2022-03-23 09:03:03

The story is really sad, reminiscent of a sentence circulating on the Internet, "I'm sorry, my hand that lifts bricks can't hug you".

It seems that a similar predicament exists for foreigners too.

Dad lost his "iron rice bowl" and could only be a courier boy. But the conditions for a foreigner to be a courier are quite harsh. In order to run the courier, my father has to buy a car.

If you don’t have money, you can only take a loan. My mother didn’t agree with this point, because my mother’s work is also very hard. It is too risky to sell a private car to buy a courier car.

Moreover, the father who is new to the industry, the express delivery business is even more stumbling.

My mother, who lost her private car, had to take the bus to work.

Although it is said that the bus business of foreigners has developed well, it still affects my mother's travel after all.

Family time has to be sacrificed for work.

This is a family drained by life.

Even worse, the child has reached the age of rebellion.

Nothing is going well.

The family has become a place for people to breathe, and the laughter it deserves has probably disappeared for a long time.

Children who did not understand the hardships of life just intuitively lost the warmth of their families.

This kind of life is suffocating.

The collision of ideas is inevitable.

Adults, however, are tired of debates that only remind them of the coldness of reality.

Does the effort pay off?

Not necessarily, even definitely not.

The story is so sad, so sad that you are desperate.

The little girl in the story just wants to keep a touch of warmth in the family.

Even if it's a small moment, everyone can have a happy meal and tell a joke as before.

Maybe a warm afternoon.

Then go to face this bloody life.

This is just a wish.

Maybe this is life.

You can't stop to think, or even stop to miss.

Because that will drive you crazy.

The mourning of the story is the mourning of adulthood.

Sorry we missed you.

Who is it that missed us?

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Extended Reading

Sorry We Missed You quotes

  • Abbie Turner: This is my family, and I'm telling you now, nobody messes with my family.

  • Ricky: I don't know what's got into you, I really don't. You're a smart kid just like Liza. You used to be in all the top sets. What is going on? Just give yourself some choices mate.

    Abbie Turner: Seb?

    Seb: Hmm-mm?

    Abbie Turner: We've talked about this. You could go to uni.

    Seb: Go to uni? What, and be like Harpoon's brother? £57 grand in debt and what? Working in a call centre now, getting smashed every weekend just to forget his problems. Of course.

    Ricky: Yeah, but it doesn't have to be like that does it? There's some good jobs out there.

    Seb: Good jobs? What good jobs?

    Ricky: Well there is if you just knuckle down. Give yourself some options. Otherwise you're just going to end up like...

    Seb: What, like you?

    Ricky: Oh fucking nice!

    Abbie Turner: Seb...

    Seb: Do you really think I want that? Really?

    Ricky: Yeah...

    Seb: Well yeah of course I do don't I? I want to be like you.

    Ricky: Yeah, going from shit job to shit job, working 14 hours a day, having to put up with everyone else's shit. Going from one shit job to another shit job. You're just going to end up a skivvy.

    Seb: A skivvy? It's your choice to be a skivvy isn't it? A skivvy doesn't come to, you, you go to it - right?

    Ricky: I'm doing my best Seb.

    Seb: Maybe your best isn't good enough, is it?