Long my heart, but for the king's sake

Casey 2021-12-09 08:01:21

When a person has become an independent whole, he feels alone and facing a world full of dangers.
----Fromm "Escape from Freedom"

You have a job---If you are willing to call the daily struggle with the smell of sweat on the bus and the tiresome smell of lunch as work,
you have an income-God knows that A few are enough for anything. I want LONGCHAMP, but I can only go around in the floats of the small shop.
You have a house-whether it is rented or loaned, it is actually a hotel. Most of the time I stay there is to sleep. ,
You have friends--that is, a netizen chats with you, a colleague eats with you, and a man occasionally watches movies with you. When he is really bored, he seeks physical comfort from each other, and after that moment, It's still the case-
you do n't care stranger, you went to school, learned a bunch of useless things, even the eggs can't be steamed well, and you missed the opportunity to take a walk with the guy in the class.


The most important thing is that you have one of the most precious things---people call it freedom.

Suddenly one day, you are finally tired of all this, tired of talking about Beauvoir and Arendt with people you don't know. What is the use of these for you, they are still the victims of men.

Recently, I turned up a diary from my boyhood. It was filled with photos of Hong Kong and Taiwan stars in the 1980s, Liu Songren and Liu Yong, whom I once liked very much.
They are old, and I am old too.
But I don’t know why, those girlhood romantic dreams suddenly appeared like a tide. I was surprised to find that I had never forgotten the white-clothed chivalrous man in Yushu and the calm heroes, even though they were just rough shadows. , And I used to despise that naive self so much later, I felt that I was extraordinary, an extraordinary woman.

And now, seeing the wrinkles in the corner of my eyes and the strange face in the mirror, I suddenly felt a tremor.
Who am I, what do I want!

After wandering around for a long time, I have seen the colorful world and all kinds of people. I suddenly found myself back to the starting point. It turned out that what I love is the ancient elegant fashion, the romantic knight, the dashing knight, and Junyi. My hero, not the great sales manager, and flirting schoolboy, and the boyfriend who wears glasses and spends all day on the Internet without feeling.

Yes, they all give me freedom. I can lose my temper casually, and even hang around at night. As long as you can support yourself, they won't say anything.
Of course you do the same to him.
In this way, the so-called postmodern modern life without enthusiasm is carried on like a business.
That is to say, each other can cheat and lie anytime and anywhere, and each other is totally indifferent. No one will fight for you and lose your life. No one will give you convenience and respect because you are a woman. Since men and women are equal, everyone They all come out and mix, there is no gender. No one will be your flower-guard messenger like knights and knights. They are even more timid than you. They are always the first to run away, whether it's repairing the toilet or arguing with the neighbor next door late at night. Noise---In short, you must not protect yourself and turn yourself into a man, because those men are more and more like women, but they need your protection or ask you for money---so many excuses, because you are so lonely , You need a man to fill your emptiness, so you have to pay to buy it.

That's it, you weak, independent and free new woman, people think you are Li Yuchun or Madonna, you are here to play with men!

So---you miss those princes riding horses and you galloping in the wilderness more and more, that heroic swordsman, who treats you like a princess-like knight, even though he is arbitrary and conservative. He doesn’t give you a lot of freedom, but he is masculine and masculine after all. He regards honor and morality rather than money interests above all else. He will protect you. You don’t need to fight in a chaotic world like a man. He is Poetic, romantic, with the sophistication and elegance of the people of that era. The important thing is that he really loves you, treats love as the most precious thing, and treats you as a woman.


Therefore, when Kate jumped into the river of time and gave up being a modern woman to be the duchess of the past, that was a complete failure of feminist suicide.

I like reading the poetic prose of the Qin and Han dynasties the most, and I also like Scott's knight novels, because I love the romantic poetry that lost the era, love that full of aristocratic elegance, love that rough and simple character, love that full of masculine power and mythology The atmosphere of the legend, I would rather be just an ordinary woman like Kate. In your warm and powerful embrace, I am willing to give up this false mask and strongness, indulge in your masculine breath, and be with you for eternity. I am tired of this painful freedom, which uses the passion to sell my soul. The freedom exchanged with the power of love, and the pitiful absurdity, independence without dignity.
I love you, because you are my hero, I adore you---

if you don't adore that person, love can't last for a day.

Qingqing Zijin,
cares about my heart,
but for the sake of the king , I am
still pondering.

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Kate & Leopold quotes

  • Kate: Are you for real?

    Leopold: I believe so.

  • Stuart: It is no more crazy than a dog finding a rainbow. Dogs are colourblind, Gretchen. They don't see colour. Just like we don't see time. We can feel it, we can feel it passing, but we can't see it. It's just like a blur. It's like we're riding in a supersonic train and the world is just blowing by, but imagine if we could stop that train, eh, Gretchen? Imagine if we could stop that train, get out, look around, and see time for what it really is? A universe, a world, a thing as unimaginable as colour to a dog, and as real, as tangible as that chair you're sitting in. Now if we could see it like that, really look at it, then maybe we could see the flaws as well as the form. And that's it; it's that simple. That's all I discovered. I'm just a... a guy who saw a crack in a chair that no one else could see. I'm that dog who saw a rainbow, only none of the other dogs believed me.

    Gretchen: I believe you.