The magic of distance

Colten 2021-12-08 08:01:39

Wipe the table often, thinking that the water stains have been wiped off.

But inadvertently, from a distance, there are still water stains. Because of photosynthesis, you can't see it if you get too close. Far away, at a glance. It turns out that distance is a subtle compromise. It is also a factor for maintaining harmony.

Therefore, you think that many people and things in the world are like this. The so-called distance produces beauty, it means love and marriage. It can also be used in interpersonal relationships. It's too close, there are many friends, brothers are good, everything is clear, once there is a conflict of interest, and you don't recognize people, you have to pour out the peas, make you jump, make friends and become enemies. The same goes for state relations. Countries have never had natural friends or enemies. Friends and enemies can be transformed just because of various interests. Back then, the big brother of the Soviet Union, we had to listen to him in everything. When he turned his face, he had to pick things up, conflicts continued, and a treasure island was hit. Although the United States and the United States had been inextricably engaged with China before (first to resist the US and aid Korea, then to resist the US and Vietnam), the United States immediately became China's invisible friend in the "triangular relationship." Brezhnev did not dare to pretend to throw an atomic bomb on China. Because the United States stabbed it out in advance, let the Soviet Union not act rashly. These are all old things.

The same goes for literary and artistic works. Van Gogh didn't know anything, and he was anxious to fight with his brother Gauguin, and cut off his ears. Gauguin also traveled far to Tahiti in the Pacific Ocean. But when they die, all the worthless paintings, as long as they are made by them, will become collectors' treasures. Let alone literature. Throughout the ages, many writers were impoverished and impoverished, but behind them, after time has passed, their painstaking work shines with endless light. On the contrary, in reality, those people who flies in the sky or flaunt their teeth and claws, after time and ruthlessly tried, they swept away their flattering works.

Movies. In the old Shanghai during the Republic of China, a lot of good movies were made. Thirty years ago, all were covered with a thick layer of ash. Once you see the sun again, the ministries are pleasing to the eye. A "Spring in a Small Town", I can't help but want to see it. For example, Hollywood's "Citizen Kane" did not cause a sensation. In the ordinary, it was driven crazy by French Bazin and other discerning people, and it really became a "big citizen" in the movie. For example, in 1955, the movie "Hunter's Night" directed by the legendary movie star Charles Lawton was screened without any applause. After a few decades, it became "a very great work in history." Some commented as "the best film in the 1950s." This is the function of time. This is the blindness of "far" and "near" under the action of time.

The far effect, luck is wonderful, it can be seen.

People, if you want to be sober, watch people and see things, and get flustered, you might as well stay a little bit farther. If you are impatient and can't eat hot tofu, you might as well look at it again, perhaps more rational, more sober, and wiser. Country to country, person to person, acting rationally, thinking empathy, equal interest, everyone is in peace, and the world is heaven. On the contrary, if they don't give in to each other, they are ruthless, the needle is on the wheat mang, the grievances are reported to each other, and violence is used to control violence, and the world becomes hell. Further drill the horns and take a step back to broaden the sky. And time is always the touchstone for testing everything in the world.

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  • Rev. Harry Powell: I can hear you whisperin' children, so I know you're down there. I can feel myself gettin' awful mad. I'm out of patience children. I'm coming to find you now.

  • Rachel Cooper: I'm a strong tree with branches for many birds. I'm good for something in this world, and I know it too.