We don't feel like the happiest people in the world when we are healthy, we are exhausted and bruised by all the things in the world. We pursue love, kinship, money, power, and status. We continue to use competition to grab what we think we need from the outside, but we feel more and more that the void in our hearts is slowly expanding.
So when I saw Morrie's story, I was ashamed. Because we already have many precious things without knowing it, we are still greedily asking for them, we keep asking for them, we think we can be happy in this way, but in the end, when we really get those things, we find that it is not Not what we really want.
The above shocks may be felt by everyone who has read this book or movie. But feeling is one thing, doing is another. Last fall, I was preparing for an exam with a lot of content, a lot of pressure, and I desperately needed mental support. At this moment, I read the book "Meeting on Tuesday", and I was greatly touched. After reading it, I wrote in the space what I thought was the most thoughtful and profound article at the time, "In the Morning, Put a Bird on Your Shoulder" ". This comes from a Buddhist story that Morrie said, imagining you have a bird on your shoulders, and every morning when you wake up, the first thing you do is to ask it, is today my deadline? If yes, how would you spend the day? When you really learn how to die, you also learn how to live.
I feel that I have come to my senses, I feel that I have sublimated, and I feel that I will live my life more intentionally and meaningfully. But is that so? The fact is, a month later, I finished the exam, and I resumed my free time with no classes. I no longer need any spiritual support in my life, because I have a lot of time to watch TV shows every day, and I don’t know how much life has passed. Xiaoyao, why do you still ask the bird on your shoulder bitterly every day?
It's like what Mitch said to Morrie, I'll remember this when I'm with you, it'll be inspiring, but the outside world is more complicated and harder to hold on, and I'll probably take everything you said as soon as I go out Leave it behind.
The homework Morrie said takes us a lifetime to complete. It would be ridiculous if anyone said that they had read the book or watched the movie once and understood the true meaning of life. Some truths, you think you understand, until one day you really experience something, you will realize that you didn't understand at all. There are some truths that we can fully grasp by learning from the experience of our predecessors, while some truths can only be understood after we have personally hit the southern wall and been baptized by years or even soaked in blood and tears.
Morrie says we get as much from the things that hurt us as from the things that love us. Zhang Defen said that what we have experienced is a gift given to us by God. These gifts are packaged in different ways, some beautiful and some ugly. You have to open them to know what they are. The suffering you are going through may be exactly what you need to accomplish in your life. homework. I think, only after doing all these homework seriously can you discover the value and meaning of their existence.
I liked the story Morrie told Janine:
a small wave was swimming happily forward in the sea, pushing forward, and suddenly it saw a wave ahead hit a rock hard and turned into countless The shattered foam was so frightened that it lost its mood all of a sudden. A passing wave asked it why it was so depressed, and it said, "Look, that's our end! We will eventually be shattered into pieces and disappear into oblivion. !" The waves beside him laughed and said, "You are not a wave, you are part of the ocean!"
Every time I read it, I would be struck by this story in the deepest part of my heart. We are all those little waves, roaming in the sea of life, we don't have to panic that we will eventually hit the shore, because we are part of this sea of life. We are one.
Going back to the movie itself, the details are well done, like Mitch's dodging and Morrie's penetrating eyes. Janine really lives up to her name, she's so beautiful and lovely, and when she talks to Morrie and sings behind her, I think she's closer to the essence of life than Mitch.
I think the book "Meeting on Tuesday" needs to be read constantly. No matter how many times you read it, it will not be too much. Maybe when you reread it for the first time on a certain day, you will suddenly find that you are the one who really understands the book. In a word.
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