The meaning of walking in the clouds

Mervin 2022-03-28 09:01:02

When walking in the clouds becomes a person's way of life, he has to accept the fact that others question it, and others will frantically doubt the foundation, influence, and meaning of the sport, even for yourself, the limit It is the whole meaning of itself, but the cloud walker must be the glory that he has won with his life, and his youthful desire is burning on the peak he has crossed.
The walkers in the clouds are actually very similar to those who climb Mount Everest. They are not destined to be madmen who will push the limit on a whim, nor are they mortals who act as heroes in the eyes of the world in order to gain attention, even if they When completing these shocks, it is often necessary to rely on a moment of passion. Standing around for a moment in eternity, it may be death if one is not careful, or a new vision will be obtained if one bites the teeth and persists. This is of course a great temptation for human reason, because we cannot understand what we can achieve with reason. The potential of our bodies, how our minds coordinate with our bodies, or how our minds stick to our body's pre-existing knowledge, may be the dream of these extreme enthusiasts.
For us ordinary people, why do we say that these people are pursuing crazy things, because with our strength and our current ability, it is a mortal choice to put our hearts in this situation, so we Subconsciously choose to avoid this kind of imagination, but for these "professionals" and dreamers, they have made sufficient preparations for their dreams, with careful professional training, patient physical persistence, and certain victory The toughness of the two towers, so that their hard work is like what the protagonist expresses on the steel cable across the Twin Towers in Walking in the Clouds, "At this moment, I really feel the steel cable, and the Twin Towers are silently giving me strength. , give me support, it all becomes one", this feeling of forgetting things and I is what they are demanding. And the only thing that should be maddening is that the price they crossed the limit was sometimes life, and the price they might have paid to pursue this dream was so huge that it felt incomprehensible, and negatively affirmed their courage, their Self-knowledge, and their "madness".
For those who pursue the limit, of course, they also have enough talent and ability, because they have acquired the ability and interest to complete these activities we call dangerous at a critical time in their lives, such as the comfort in racing. Mach, in the wild drag racing, he not only reaps the thrill, but also hones his skills carefully. Behind him is a group of research teams that turn the accidental factors in our eyes into inevitable, and they analyze it bit by bit. How to make the car run better speed, better track, better posture and so on.
I think this kind of enthusiasm for walking in the clouds is more difficult to train. It is more like a kind of inheritance, a kind of surprise, a kind of inheritance of passion for life. It cannot be used like a profession. To spread by popularization, it is more like a craft, a movement that requires unique wisdom, unique enthusiasm, unique life seeds and life foundation to stand. According to this reasoning, whether this Will the lineage arise in one place, one family, one period, that is, is it influential and concentrated? What we feel through the film is what actors and actresses show us with their acting skills. These dreamers' love for the limit and the impact they love on our traditions are such an amazing group of people. ?

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Extended Reading

The Walk quotes

  • [first lines]

    Philippe Petit: "Why?" That is the question people ask me most. Pourquoi? Why? For what? Why do you walk on the wire? Why do you tempt fate? Why do you risk death. But, I don't think of it this way. I never even say this word, death. La mort. Yes of okay, I said it once, or maybe three times, just now... But watch, I *will* not say it again. Instead, I use the opposite word. Life. For me, to walk on the wire, this is life. C'est la vie.

    Philippe Petit: [now standing in the torch of the Statue of Liberty] So, picture with me it's 1974, New York city, and I am in love with two buildings - two towers. Or as everyone in the world will calls them, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. They call to me. These towers, they stir something inside of me, and they inspire in me a dream. My dream is to hang a high-wire between those twin towers, and *walk* on it! Of course, uh, this is impossible, not to mention, illegal. So, why attempt the impossible? Why follow your dream? But, I cannot answer this question why, not with words. But I can show you how i happened. And so, we must go back in time, and across the ocean, because my love affair with these beautiful towers did not begin in New York. In case you couldn't tell, I'm not from here. No, my story begins in another one of the world's most beautiful cities, se Paris.

  • Philippe Petit: [just before beginning his walk] I lost my costume! It's a tragedy! The biggest page of my like and I lose my costume! It falls off the edge! If have no costume!

    Jeff: What?

    Philippe Petit: [now in French] It lost my turtleneck, this is not my costume!