Choosing not to choose is the dumbest choice

Levi 2022-04-20 09:01:07

Choose a life, choose a job, choose a career, choose a family, choose a TV, choose a washing machine, a car, a record player, choose health, low cholesterol, choose insurance, mortgage, installment, choose a friend, choose to wake up on Sunday not knowing who you are , choose to sit on the sofa watching TV, junk food, choose to get rich, choose low-level fun, choose the most shameless deeds, choose the future, choose life...

Why should I choose these? I choose not to choose. So I followed my friends, set fires, robbed and drugged, rebelled against all the rules, screwed up everything in exchange for short-lived false happiness.

To choose or not to choose is a choice. The result of choice is that I will be a selfless machine in my life, and shamelessness is exchanged for satisfaction; the result of not choosing is that I will be in endless chaos, surrounded by anxiety and sadness, relying on drugs to give me false happiness. It is a choice to exchange falsehood for real happiness, or to exchange truth for false happiness.

Life is never good, a tsunami of pain, and joys are tiny and fragile. Choice may be blind or wise, but not choosing is just escaping, not acknowledging that happiness is as difficult to grasp as an illusion, paralyzing yourself with artificial happiness, thinking that you can escape the torture of life, but in the end you fall into the endless abyss and be brutalized by life. left behind. You are choosing life, life is choosing you, and if you give up the rules of life, life will give up on you.

Humans create rules, systems, values, morals, and build walls to trap themselves in order to protect themselves, and at the same time, we hate these walls that limit our activities. Human beings are governed by endless fears and desires, and human beings are fragile and shameless.

That being the case, why should we reject our own filth. What's wrong with exchanging your own hypocrisy for a little real happiness? Go choose, choose betrayal, choose job, career, nine to five, choose family, friends, children, choose washing machine, record player, choose health, low cholesterol, choose insurance, mortgage, installment, choose future, choose life. .....

The future is bright...

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  • Mabelle 2021-10-20 18:59:08

    That disgusting toilet.

  • Alan 2022-03-25 09:01:05

    I've heard the name of "Guessing the Train" and that famous line for more than ten years, and finally watched it. Because I liked the 40-year-old Ivan, I looked back at the 25-year-old. This feeling of getting to know someone against time is amazing.

Trainspotting quotes

  • Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: Thank you, your honor. With God's help I'll conquer this terrible affliction.

  • Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: [narrating] I wished that I'd gone down instead of Spud. Here I was surrounded by my family and my so-called mates and I've never felt so alone. Never in all my puff. Since I was on remand, they've had me on this program, this state sponsored addiction. Three sickly sweet doses of methadone a day instead of smack. But it's never enough. And at the moment it's nowhere near enough. I took all three this morning and now I've got eighteen hours to go until my next shot. I've got sweat on my back like a layer of frost. I need to visit the Mother Superior for one hit. One final hit to get us over this long, hard day.

    [to Swanney 'Mother Superior']

    Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: What's on the menu this evening, Sir?

    Swanney: Your favorite dish.

    Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: Excellent.

    Swanney: Your usual table, Sir.

    Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: Oh, why thank you.

    Swanney: Would Sir care to pay for his bill in advance?

    Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: No. Stick it on my tab.

    Swanney: Ah, regret to inform, sir, credit limit was reached and breached quite some time ago.

    Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: Oh, well in that case...

    [hands him some cash]

    Swanney: Ah, hard currency. Thank you, Sir. Can't be too careful these days. Would Sir care for a starter of some garlic bread perhaps?

    Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: No, thank you. I will proceed directly to the intravenous injection of hard drugs, please.