Pain is a part of happiness----"SHADOWLANDS" and young people in China

Anthony Hopkins' 1993 film "Shadowland" is well known, never had a chance to watch it, stumbled across it on a weekend night, followed by a desire to immerse, meditate and express. First of all, I want to express my love for Hopkins. He is a very good actor. He explained that an attractive man is a bottle of old wine, and the older he is, the more mellow he is. The film is derived from a 1985 TV movie written by William Nicholsh and directed by Norman Stone. The plot is based on a true story between Oxford University professor CS Lewis and author Joey Gresham, although there are some adaptations in the film and novel. The specific plot is the process of the professor and her supporters from acquaintance to marriage, and from the lover who died of cancer, the ending and the theme: pain is part of happiness. The background of the film is London and Oxford in the 1950s and 1960s, with universities, libraries and idyllic scenery, full of British atmosphere. The film details the life of a professor, a life that seems so meaningful and respectable but isolated from outsiders, a life that seems free-wheeling but not free. And this kind of life is also the life that many elites in modern China yearn for. What the movie is trying to tell the audience is for the audience to understand what the professor says at the end, "Why does love hurt so much if it's lost? I don't have an answer. Twice, because I've had a life of choice, and only a life I live.: As a boy and A man. The safety of the boy's choice, the pain of the man's choice. The pain is part of so much happiness right now. That's the deal."
What is the meaning of human life? Maybe it will always be a problem. Childhood dreams and youthful ideals all make people feel that life is meaningful, but those are all motivations given by the past to the present, and it is certain that those things will change with time, and even make you feel that there is no such thing in the future. significance. Happiness and tranquility is the state that people hope for, and those who really feel it must be frustrated and suffering. Because people's value lies in constantly breaking through the various external environments that limit themselves, so that the inner primitive and pure desires are constantly expanding and deepening. When breaking through the bondage, you will definitely encounter difficulties and problems, you must endure pain and loneliness, you must insist on simple and primitive desires such as curiosity and universal love, and you must have courage. Only those who do it can expand their minds and better understand life and the universe. Therefore, the meaning of human beings is always the future tense, and the present you and I can only break through the shackles to find the answer. People will grow old. Before you feel powerless, let's face pain. Pain can shape a perfect person. Only in this way, when you grow old, you will not have regrets, and maybe you will experience the happiness and tranquility of your life.
The male protagonist is a professor at a famous university, and it seems that he is not confused or that he solves the confusion of others. In school, he was always a strong man, because in front of him was not a young man or his admirers but the reality was that he was bored and wasting his life there every day. Reading can indeed reduce loneliness, but the pursuit of truth is not in a pile of books or in a group of gentle gentlemen. It's intense, it's painful, it's lonely, it's confusing, it takes courage. His students forced him to think so, and his lover said to him, "Look at yourself in the mirror, you are separate from yourself. See the world in the mirror, you are from a different world. I don't want this separation anymore." But he still did not have the courage to break the bondage and pursue the simple desire for love. But when he learns that the person he loves has cancer and is about to leave, the great pain of losing his lover and the simple desire for love make him pursue happiness. And true love made him realize the meaning of life that he hadn't realized before. Feeling and experiencing different experiences on the journey with the person you love, and more importantly, knowing that pain is a part of happiness. This story about love proves that when people break their shackles and pursue their longings, all pain is part of a happy memory and realization of life.
The problem in modern China is that too many young people choose the opposite path to the professors. They forget the most primitive and pure desires of human beings, they are afraid of pain, setbacks, and loneliness, avoid change, avoid struggle, and compromise in reality. Therefore, the spiritual world of this society cannot progress rapidly, so they cannot feel peace and experience the real life, and they can only numb themselves with hallucinogens with one excuse after another. Still the same sentence, if you don’t advance, you will retreat. The collapse of civilization may not be as difficult as imagined, but it may be a missed opportunity for change. And change always comes from the mind, and the progress of the mind is all the result of breaking the bondage and experiencing the pain. If Chinese young people do not have this responsibility, what is the future of China? And go further and further on the wrong road, the result can only be a dream. The extremes of technocracy will only push us into an abyss. What young people should think about now is how to connect their personal destiny and meaning and the pursuit of moral truth with the dilapidated countryside and the poor farmers who live in the same era but have not entered into modernization. Hope people who see this post can go and change.

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