The two key words Morrie talked about most in his conversations with Mitch were: love, and death. Whether it's love or death, we're always embarrassed when we bring words like that to the table and talk, but why embarrass? Love is the best spiritual belonging for people living in the world, and death is the constant destination of the body, and no one can escape either of them. But we still avoided talking. We are accustomed to looking for a variety of methods to cover up shame, avoid taboos, or use some twists and turns to point to the most naked core.
because of fear.
When Morrie brought up the topic of his impending death, Mitch evaded every time he could not accept the fact that he was facing death so directly. Instead, he always showed detached optimism and calmness. But fear is human nature, and calmness is not a gift from beginning to end. Every morning when Morrie is sick, Morrie will be angry, sad, and even cry on the pillow, complaining about why God chose him to have this disease. But what's different is that Morrie only puts those moments of self-pity on the bed, and then throws all these annoying baggage behind to start the day, smiling hard to meet the world's last sunshine. So if we look at it from a macro perspective, Morrie takes an optimistic and accepting attitude towards his own death. After experiencing the early resentment, he finally decides to face death calmly, and regards such a process as a The beginning of a new life. The bird on his shoulder must always remind him that every day is too important to be wasted, and that Morrie did his best to be close and close to Mitch, his favorite student, for the short remainder of his life before his foreseeable death. , and then taught him the last lesson with his own story, about life, about life, about life, about love. So old Morrie left in the love of relatives and friends, and his soul and body finally found their home.
In the film, as time goes on, Mitch finds more and more problems in his life and asks what the meaning of his life is. On the way to catch up on gossip news, he falls down and asks himself on the ground, "I What are you doing?" So Mitch gradually saw the essence of the emptiness in his heart under the busy rush every day. For love, for marriage, those never-ending "unpreparedness", the essence is actually an escape from love, that is, For fear of entrusting ourselves to those we risk losing, fear of being hurt. Therefore, there is no longer a passion for love like dry firewood, nor the courage to move forward. People give up the opportunity to become soft and gentle while protecting themselves from harm, just like when we face death. And run away. Although no one can deny the fast-paced life of modern society, the pursuit of success in the environment and the complexity of interpersonal relationships, these should not be the reason for us to wear a protective shell to spend every day forever. What we should do is to open our hearts, Take the protection off, give love, and receive love. Only at this time will we become soft and easily moved, and these are the most important things in our life, spiritual things.
In my eyes, Morrie has always been an optimistic little old man who is easy to move and cry when he is on the road to death. When he talks about love and softness, he always sheds tears naturally, although this is not the case in modern society. It is a sign of weakness in the evaluation system, but what can it be? The love he has received and given is more abundant than anyone else, his emotions are more abundant than anyone who thinks he is weak, and these are the real treasures that belong to him. On the last Tuesday, Mitch knew it might be the last Tuesday. When death finally came and couldn't escape, Mitch shed the first tear since the beginning of the story, and he finally became soft and tender. Morrie went away quietly and contentedly, but he left behind something more important than life and death, the love that lived in the spirit.
As Morrie said repeatedly, death ends life, but not relationships. So we live in the world, if there is no love, we would rather die.
Friday, November 22, 2013
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