Chilling Death

Julie 2022-03-30 09:01:11

Today is the beginning of autumn, followed by Bai Lusheng, and then the cicadas chirped. The busiest season of the year is coming to an end, just as life has turned from prosperity to decline and entered its twilight years.

No matter how prosperous or noisy it is, it is only one season, and the most beautiful and moving one is only a decade. After that, it is powerless and not as good as before. The ancients believed that the greatest tragedy in life is "the end of the hero, the twilight of the beauty". In fact, men are also afraid of the twilight, especially the young and romantic brothers who have lived in the midst of flowers.

The fascination for love and the thirst for a young body have instead become stronger with age. When the old professor saw the first glance of the female student in class, he couldn't help himself. Rather than being irresistible to beautiful women, it's better to be fascinated by proud youth.

Old men seem to have a natural desire for girls, wanting to grab and possess, maybe seeing the girl's flowery body blooming in his arms can remind them of their high-spirited youth, or it's just an authoritative desire to control, when When my own aging is inevitable, I want to borrow someone else's youth to save something. It is impossible to simply say that this struggle is futile, and although the fact of aging cannot be changed, it is undoubtedly the highest sense of accomplishment to be able to win the heart of a girl in this way.

After all, this is just a game of "hunting spring". Although old men love girls' beautiful bodies, they will not pay for it. Just as countless middle-aged men complain about their unfortunate marriage and cry that their wife is an uninformed piece of wood as their reason for cheating, but when his mistress asks him to divorce him quickly, he will quickly turn his face away and stage a show.” "The Prodigal Son Returns" drama to prove that he was only a ghost for a while, and his repentance after that was awakened.

You must know that the power of love for an old man is to harvest beauty, not to go through fire and water for love. This kind of sacrifice should have been done at a young age.

Cheating is too small a case these days, no matter what your heartbeat or actions are, it is too rare to have a love for another beautiful woman who does not need to be responsible. It happens in offices, on the street, in airports, and even at the checkout counters in supermarkets. Of course, this is also human nature. It is natural to love beauty, not to mention that hunting for this kind of beauty is the icing on the cake for one's own history of seeking fragrance, why not do it?

Of course, this love is limited. On the one hand, those old men who have gone through most of the ups and downs in their lives are already good men, how could they live for love like Leng Touqing? On the other hand, old men also have their own difficulties. Sometimes it is not that they do not want to love, but love. Not moving. Looking at the young and fresh life of a young girl, the infinitely possible future life, and then looking at her own ragged skin and her life that has been going downhill, how can you not be humble? It was cruel enough to face his own old age, not to mention the desolation in his heart when compared with another life in his best years. Life itself already has a tragedy to be accepted, and what courage do you have to paint a tragic color for it?

So, the old professor retired again and again until he quit the world of female students. It is true that as a person who has buried most of the loess, even if he is qualified to love, how can he bear and how can he be determined to love? Love is far from being as simple as you would like it to be. It needs the right time, place and people. Without any one of them, love cannot be achieved.

Love is there, it has always been there, it just turns into some kind of belief, if there is no entity to carry it. In the two years of losing contact, the old professor has never forgotten the female student, but he has not sought contact. Sometimes, love is enough in the heart. As for whether we can be together or not, let fate decide.

Therefore, fate chose cruel mercy this time. The female student returned to the old professor with the summoning book of the god of death, and she said that I am older than you now.

Yeah, we forget that the only thing that can conquer old age is death. Although old age will eventually point to death, but death has a more domineering power, it can freeze our life in the moment of prosperity and never wither. What a heartwarming ending to die at the most beautiful time, never to be frightened by the old face in the mirror, never to exude the breath of death that people around you hate, never to be at the mercy of others Even if you are uncomfortable, you have to pretend to be satisfied and helpless, and you will never be scolded by arrogant young people with disgust as "old never die". Only flowers and praise live like treasures in reputation and love. Let it end in this moment and remember all the brilliance.

Dying in youth is the most gorgeous and heart-wrenching, and it is this heart-ache that offsets the regrets of old age. Thus, an aging body and a dying life finally have an equal status. This one is old, the other is incomplete, this one is about to die, and that one is called by the Lord at any time. No one has an advantage over another, no one has to pity or apologise to anyone, and the balance of love is delicately maintained between death and old age.

Looking at this flower-like young body, the old professor can finally bravely stretch out his hand to caress and hug. But the beauty is only this moment. Just as the real tragedy is not getting, but getting and losing, the old professor did not get the favor of fate after all.

But who has been favored by fate? When the cicadas cry, all people will grow old, all stories will end, and no one will be treated favorably, right? But the reason why it is still so embarrassing is because no matter how close to death, the human heart is still as fresh as ever and refuses to grow old, just like the summer that will never end. And the heartbeat is the root of all tragedies.

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Elegy quotes

  • George O'Hearn: Beautiful women are invisible.

    David Kepesh: Invisible? What the hell does that mean? Invisible? They jump out at you. A beautiful woman, she stands out. She stands apart. You can't miss her.

    George O'Hearn: But we never actually see the person. We see the beautiful shell. We're blocked by the beauty barrier. Yeah, we're so dazzled by the outside that we never make it inside.

  • David Kepesh: I think it was Betty Davis who said old age is not for sissies. But it was Tolstoy who said the biggest surprise in a man's life is old age. Old age sneaks up on you, and the next thing you know you're asking yourself, I'm asking myself, why can't an old man act his real age? How is it possible for me to still be involved in the carnal aspects of the human comedy? Because, in my head, nothing has changed.