Longing for happiness

Summer 2021-12-23 08:01:29

When I was in college, there used to be a recruitment support for border education. The location was Tibet. It lasted for three years. The salary was double the salary and the postgraduate entrance examination plus 10%. At that time, nobody cared about this job. At that time, I felt that no one cared about it for granted. Now that I think about it, I feel "surprisingly", but I didn't understand it at the time.

After graduating, I lived in the city where I had lived for 20 years and lived a life of "how many days I was always alone facing the sky in a daze". I accidentally thought of the recruitment of that year. In Tibet... this idea just broke me. My friend said, you can travel to Tibet? That's different. Traveling is just a short-term dismissal. It's like taking drugs. The pleasure passes by, and it's even more empty. My current situation is that I can't live and die. What I need is not improvement, but revolution, revolutionizing my life. I am not traveling to Tibet, I want to live there. Let me go to Tibet! It’s paradise. Let me go to Tuscany, let me go to Provence, and let me go to the Maldives the last time, where the coconut trees are shadowed, the water is clear and the sand is young...

Forgive me for a grievance, this grievance should have been specifically published, Rather than occupy the space of this article (in fact, it is not enough words and complaining), for the audience who did not want to see me complaining, this is a disaster, so stop here and get back to business.

Today I saw a movie called "Under the Tuscan Sun". The heroine of the movie, Frances, is a woman who has the same illness as me. We are all confused and desperate about life. Of course, sad people have no arms. I was trapped by emptiness, she was hurt by love, so she went to travel, to do short-term expeditions like taking drugs. She clearly knows this. What she doesn't know is that her mentality has changed. The trigger of this change was a villa in Tuscany. At first, a crazy woman encouraged her to buy this villa. This suggestion was absurd, even crazy. Of course she could not accept it, but the seeds of this madness It was planted in her heart. Fortunately, fate gave her a second chance. She was brought to this villa by ghosts and gods. The seeds of madness in her heart quickly grew into towering trees. In other words, she had an epiphany. She didn't go with the tour group anymore, she decided to follow her feelings. Compared with her, I am much more unfortunate. First of all, the change in my attitude towards Tibet is basically a gradual enlightenment, which falls short of the realm. Secondly, destiny did not give me a second chance to choose Tibet. Again, I myself lack the courage to follow my feelings.

Dreams are always beautiful, but reality is always cruel. Even if it is not cruel enough, it is more than enough to splash you with cold water. Beautiful dreams are always unconventional, and cruel reality is always trivial. The accumulation of trivial cruelty can also cause people to collapse. As the initial freshness fades, various trivial problems make Frances Feeling pain, nine out of ten unsatisfactory things in the world, even a happy life like Soviet movies, is often accompanied by pain and regret. If you want to eliminate the pain, it is not about changing your living environment. Whether you live in Tuscany, Provence, or the Maldives, pain always comes to your door and be your neighbor. What needs to change is your mentality, to have a good dream, and to have a firm belief. Martini, a lawyer in Tuscany, told Francis that between Italy and Austria, there is a part of the Alps, the highest mountain of which is called Simorin, and its steepness is unimaginable. People built railways across the Alps to connect Vienna and Venice. They built these tracks before there were trains because they knew that there would be a train one day.

What is happiness? Happiness is the satisfaction of reality and the longing for the future. Since reality cannot satisfy us, let us at least have a longing for the future. Francis' vision is to hold a grand wedding in this ancient villa, and then have a home, a happy home with love, friends and sustenance. But her "love" died because of the arrival of her broken-hearted friend. It seemed that her two dreams could not be realized. It seemed that other things were not satisfactory. The crazy woman who knew Fellini didn't seem to want to be her soul anymore. Her mentor, the love of the Polish boy who repaired her house was also challenged by racism. The boy had the same illness with her. Without a family member, he was about to lose his love and would soon have nothing like her. At this time, Martini’s story came to mind again. She decided to help the boy. She would be the boy’s friend and family member. This was her second epiphany. This time she completely changed her mentality. She left, her dreams shone into reality. A grand wedding was held in this ancient villa. Although it was not her wedding, it was the wedding of her family. She became a person with love, friends and sustenance. The happy destination is naturally away from her. Far.

Francis's pain is resolved, what about my own? This requires chance and coincidence. Maybe one day I will have an epiphany, maybe it will be tomorrow, who knows? But this does not prevent me from having a beautiful vision:

from tomorrow on, I will be a happy person
feed horses, chop wood, and travel the world
from tomorrow on, care about food and vegetables
I have a house facing the sea, and spring blossoms...

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Under the Tuscan Sun quotes

  • Katherine: Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.

  • Frances: Do traffic lights mean anythng around here?

    Marcello: Sure. Green light - avanti, avanti. Yellow light - decoration.

    Frances: What about red light?

    Marcello: Just a suggestion.