When everyone summed up why Mr. Watanabe worked so hard to build the park, they all called out: "If I would do it too.", "You will do it too.", "Anyone will do it." Everyone thinks this is nothing remarkable, it is a time to take it for granted.
Someone said: "We will die someday too!" Do you dare to say that you don't know? Mr. Watanabe learned that he had stomach cancer, so he was full of enthusiasm for his work. Then, don't those people who say that everyone knows how to do it, don't know that they are also going to die? But why chaotic life.
There is a saying that the days are mixed up, and the days have been mixed up by us like this. If you learn that you have few days left, you have to live your life seriously. When the problems you think about every day are no longer trivial things, but point to the ultimate problem of life, it is difficult to ignore all the happy entertainment.
People with a slight conscience will be touched, and then immediately swear that we will learn from Mr. Watanabe! Do our best to do everything, but for those who do not know the life span, they are always paralyzed by the infinite ordinary days.
The desire of life is to live a meaningful life. It seems to be Kurosawa's definition of Watanabe's new life. Don't misunderstand why not doing life is also a kind of life. Don't do anything else, just work hard for yourself. Meaning is not a ready-made thing in life, but human input. To gain meaning, it is not by possession of life, but by love and creation.
I remembered a passage from Saint Exupéry, "The man who walked to the well was thirsty. He pulled the squeaky iron chain and lifted the heavy bucket to the well rail, so he heard the singing of water. And all the sharp music. He was thirsty, making his walking, his arms, and his eyes full of meaning, and the thirsty man walked toward the well, like a poem." And those who drink from the cup People with ready-made water can't hear the singing of water. The person who rides on a slide-today is a cable car-goes up the mountain, no matter how beautiful the mountain is, it is only a concept for him, and it has no substance. When I say mountain, I mean the mountain where you have been stabbed by thorns, fell off the cliff, moved the stones to sweat, picked the flowers above, and finally breathed in the wind on the top of the mountain. If you don't use your body and mind, everything is meaningless. People who are greedy for comfort are actually giving up meaning.
We are going to die one day, and we will live the life we want for the rest of our lives, unifying the body and mind.
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