After watching the movie, the phrase "I didn't choose the skux life; the skux life chose me." kept echoing in my mind.
Thinking of his reluctance to say that children like himself were abandoned, the aunt of the child welfare institution always said that he would not abandon any child. This seemingly human remark is nothing more than a pretty business statement, and they don't really care what happens to these children, and they even fully expect them to fend for themselves.
So children like the little fat man were caught up on a path that they were forced to choose, experienced all kinds of events that they were forced to experience, and became people they were forced to become.
Fortunately, this extraordinary experience of being hunted down (although it was also forced to embark on it) self-defeated and changed Little Fatty's life. Although the people in the children's welfare center still have such a fake face, and the society still ignores children like him, the little fat man has at least found his own happiness.
The same is true for us, often not we choose life, but life chooses us. Unexpected ramifications continue to drive us down another path. We end up being mediocre and accepting mediocrity, becoming what we least wanted to be when we were kids. Just like the number one person from the Children's Welfare Institute wanted the little fat man to look like.
Not everyone has the opportunity to get a movie-like escape experience like a little fat man, but I hope that at a certain moment in my long life, before there is no mediocrity, I can have a flash of inspiration and realize that I don't want to go down that road, and then deflect in time. Come here, break through the iron fence and shout for freedom, although the compensation fee for the iron fence is not cool at all, but at least I got my life back.
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