Why do we fall in love with someone

Ephraim 2022-03-26 09:01:09

I don’t know where I read a story about a Mumbai courier boy delivering lunch boxes, to the effect that there is a special group in Mumbai called Dabbawala, who work like food delivery workers, but they deliver It's all the guests' meals. Mumbai is a long and narrow city, with business districts and residential districts separated from north to south. People usually go to work so far that they have to take a train to get there, and the trains are so crowded during peak hours that it is impossible to have space for lunch. Therefore, people want to eat at home. For the meals, Dabbawala is needed. The housewives prepare the meals before 10 am, wait for Dabbawala to pick up the lunch box, then send it to the railway station, and then transport it to the major commercial buildings, factories, schools, etc. in Mumbai. During the whole process Relying only on food trucks, trains and legs. Although Dabbawala is a group with a low overall cultural level, the accurate delivery rate of the express delivery system they operate is as high as 99.99999%, which is far behind companies such as FedEx that use modern technology and tools.

The movie "Lunchbox" tells the 0.00001% story that happened in this context.

Yina is a housewife who has racked her brains to try to tie her husband's heart by feeding her stomach, but it seems to have little effect. Her husband never commented on the meals she made, and he was always lukewarm to her. . Until one day, all the lunch boxes Dabbawala sent back were emptied, which was something that had never happened before. Ina excitedly told the aunt who lived upstairs that the mysterious seasoning you gave worked. However, that night, when her husband came home from get off work, there was still no difference. Unable to hold back, Yina pressed him for his opinion on the lunch. The husband said perfunctorily that the cauliflower was delicious. Ina understood at once that the lunch she made for her husband was not delivered to him because she did not cook cauliflower at all. In other words, the one who received Yina's lunch box by mistake, ate all the lunch she made with peace of mind.

The one who ate up Ina's lunch was a widower named Fernandez, who had worked in the claims department of an insurance company for 35 years and was about to retire in a month. Weird, his wife passed away 10 years ago, he lives alone, takes the train day after day, goes to work, gets off work, smokes on the rooftop, and observes the neighbors who are buzzing together for dinner.

These two unrelated people were kinked together because of a wrongly delivered lunch.

Ina, who found that the lunch was wrong, did not immediately tell Dabbawala to correct the address. The next day, her meal was also delivered to Fernandis. This time, Ina attached a note to it, and she told Fernan Dies' oolong for lunch, but at the same time she thanked Fernandez for eating up his lunch, and even made him another of her husband's favorite dishes to express her gratitude.

Ina's actions are not difficult to understand at all. For a person who devotes infinite energy to cooking, eating all the food is the highest compliment. Ina, who has been neglected by her husband for a long time, and Ina who has been working so hard for a long time, has been treated lightly. Fernandez, a stranger who ate all his food, felt his worth for the first time. When a person knows that his hard work is taken seriously, and there is no rashness, the kind of gratitude is almost indescribable. , almost the most tender return in the world.

If it is said that Yina's refusal is out of greed for this kind of "tenderness", why is it not Fernandez? For someone like him who has stayed in the abyss of loneliness for a long time, the lights by the window and the smell of food are a life-saving straw. Maybe when he first ate Yina's lunch, he was already seriously different from the usual one. He sensed this misunderstanding in the delicious food, but he still chose to enjoy it with peace of mind. He craved food with a human touch and infinite affection, even though he clearly knew that it was not for him.

In this way, they established a relationship through the lunch box. Every morning, Ina put the letter into the lunch box full of meals. Fernandez would read her letter at lunch and put it in the empty lunch box. reply. In this way, they share each other's life and insights, and then fall in love with each other little by little.

There is a very touching confession line "Youcomplete me", you complete me, that is to say, before you came, my heart was full of emptiness, this emptiness may be unspeakable, unwilling to say, not knowing what to do. It is said that not all the helplessness and desolation of life can be known to others. Adults are afraid of showing weakness and revealing, because they do not know whether the other party is worthy of trust. In such a world, if there is such a person, you can tell him all kinds of life without any scruples, even if it is like you were beaten by someone on the bus, and you found a new grandmother's new It's impossible not to be addicted to something as trivial as a recipe.

Therefore, the interaction between Ina and Fernandis in the movie is so moving. The deepest impression is that Ina told Fernandis how she felt when she saw the news of a mother jumping off a building with her daughter, and how Fernandi felt. Si Xiang Yina recalled the scenes when his wife was watching movies and TV dramas upstairs when his wife was alive. They were all very small things, but it made people feel that at these moments when they were caught by life, they could fully reveal to each other without worrying about each other. What a wonderful thing to be unacceptable. This kind of exposure, in Han Songluo's words, is like meeting by life. From the very beginning of their relationship, they were convinced that they were walking on a tightrope of interpersonal relationships.

In modern times, why do people fall in love with someone? Maybe a little pessimistic, but I always feel that people fall in love with a person, and many times it is out of their own desire to share. In a life full of hardships, suddenly there is such a person, like an outlet, to accept those who do not know you oppressed in your heart Who should you tell your feelings to? At the same time, in return, you also accept the various aspects of his life. From this original intention of warming each other, it is this real and three-dimensional person. Then you will find that the various things of this person who had nothing to do with you before have seriously affected your life and almost touched your heart.

So far, lonely people are redeemed in this fellowship. Love can happen.

The rotten love motto said, for me, love is not skin-to-skin, not a vegetable and a meal, it is an immortal desire, a heroic dream in a tired life. These words are both right and wrong. Interacting with you has made me raise a dream in my ordinary life, to have another dream of a happy life; but a tired life is so hard to get rid of. In the movie, Yina and Fernandis are planning to go to the legendary Bhutan, which is like a peach blossom. Looking at her, his sense of retreat came from his worry about "I don't know when I'm so old", and from the slap in the face of reality. What is reality? The reality is that he is so old that the young man on the train insists on giving up his seat to him, just like at the end of the movie "Beauty Grass", Shu Qi, who is already a married woman, happily puts on the most beautiful dress to meet her first love Liu Ye after many years, but is rejected by him. In the rain, the car was splashed with mud.

I'm sorry, I also want to be the hero of my dreams, but life is so exhausting that I can't escape.


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  • Saajan Fernandes: When my wife died, she got a horizontal burial cot... I tried to buy a burial cot for myself the other day, and what they offered me was a vertical one... I've spent my whole life standing in trains and buses... now I'll even have to stand when I'm dead!

  • Ila: Somwhere I read that the wrong train can lead you to the right station...