The movie "How Beautiful Life" is an old film in the United States in the 1940s, the picture is not so clear, it is not easy to see, but once you calm down and look into it, it will become a film that will affect your life.
It is no exaggeration to say that missing this movie because of a lack of patience will be a regret of a lifetime.
On Christmas Eve, the wife is preparing a rich dinner, and the children are happily decorating the Christmas tree, but the man of the house, George, secretly decides to commit suicide.
Why?
Because the mortgage company he runs owes a large debt, he simply can't repay it and will go to jail for it.
He wandered down the street and came to a riverside, and it was winter, thinking that the river must be bitterly cold, but he hesitated and jumped anyway.
Luckily, he was saved by an angel.
However, he did not have the slightest gratitude to the angel, or stubbornly wanted to commit suicide, no matter how much the angel persuaded him to no avail.
During the argument, George said:
"I'd rather never come into this world!"
"Never been out of this world?"
George's words touched the angel, and the angel cast a spell to let George see what the "world that never had him" looked like:
The annoyance is gone:
His company is not in debt, and he will not face bankruptcy and imprisonment.
But bad things followed:
He knocked on his mother's door, but let him shout, "Mom! Mom! The old woman didn't know him, and she looked very haggard.
He looked at the angel puzzled, and the angel said:
"Since you've never been into this world, she's never had a son like you."
George suddenly realized.
The angel also told George that the elderly woman had no children under her knees and could only die alone.
When George heard this, he was sad and confused:
"Don't I have a younger brother?"
The angel's explanation made him break out in a cold sweat again!
When his brother was 9 years old, he skated and fell into the water, and it was George who saved him.
That is, if "George had never been into this world," his brother's life would have been long over and his mother would have become a lonely old woman.
George was frightened, and he thought to himself:
"What about my wife and children?"
He ran home to find his wife and children, but he saw a dilapidated house that no one had lived in for more than a decade, covered with cobwebs and dust, and there was no one there.
George was about to collapse, and he grabbed the angel and frantically asked:
"What about them? What about them? ”
The angel said to him,
"If you had never been into this world, Mary would not have been your wife, would not have children, and certainly would not have this home!"
There's nothing wrong with this logic.
George suddenly woke up:
"Turns out I'm so important!"
At the angel's point, George saw more value for himself:
As a child, George worked as an assistant to an elderly doctor. Once, because the doctor was in a trance because he could not bear the pain of losing his son, he dispensed the wrong medicine to the patient, fortunately, George found out in time, otherwise there would be a lawsuit for death, and the doctor would go to jail.
That's enough to "irritate" George, but there's something even more exciting:
Because there is a son in this world named George, the building loan company founded by his father can continue to operate after the death of his father, and this company is dedicated to helping people in the slums to build houses, so that countless poor people have moved out of the slums and owned their own homes.
George finally understood that his seemingly useless self actually brought a lot of value and beauty to the world.
So what is jail time?
Suddenly, he felt that going to jail was also a beautiful thing, so he ran home and shouted:
"I'm going to jail, that's wonderful!"
The movie Charlotte Troubles tells a similar story:
The male protagonist Charlotte, played by Shen Teng, has achieved nothing many years after graduation, in fact, he is poor and lazy, relying on his wife Dongmei to earn hard money to support his family.
On this day, it was the wedding of Charlotte's first love girlfriend, for the sake of face, he rented a suit to rush to the scene, did not want to collide with the emcee "perfectly", which caused the classmates to laugh.
Suddenly, Charlotte lost control of her emotions and began to make a big fuss about the wedding.
Some people coaxed, some people discouraged, in the chaos, Charlotte rushed into the bathroom to try to calm down, but accidentally entered a dream, in which he returned to his youth, walked all the way through the "wish to do things":
Charlotte, who loves to sing, became a big singer, performing on the same stage with Na Ying, singing "Meet 1998", fame and profit rolled in, and his most beloved girl also became the legal wife.
In her dreams, Charlotte has a near-perfect life, but she is struck by fate - because he is infected with AIDS, the relatives and friends who used to surround him are scattered like birds and beasts, including his most beloved wife.
This allowed Charlotte to finally understand the true meaning of life:
Not abandoning is the most precious, and the talents who have been with them are the most worth cherishing.
He rushed out of the bathroom, hugged and kissed his wife Dongmei.
But the realization of dreams does not mean that you can be happy, true happiness is in this life, everything you have in this life.
It is said that life is like chess, but I think it is "life is like a mountain", and it is "Lushan".
Many of us are in "Lushan" but do not know the true face of "Lushan":
In his book "The Matter of the Soul", the writer Shi Tiesheng wrote an article called "Good Luck Design", saying that if there is an afterlife, he hopes to have a good body.
Stetson has been in a wheelchair since he was 21 years old, and this sitting is a lifetime, and you can imagine how happy he will feel if he can have a healthy body!
But the vast majority of people, with sound limbs, want to go, jump when they want, do you think this is happiness?
Imagine yourself suddenly limping off one leg, or even losing it completely! Scared?
In fact, to have is happiness, if you want to have more, you can rely on your own efforts to fight, but don't ignore the existing happiness.
Everyone's possessions are unique, and they are the "best scenery" in the eyes of others.
Romain Rolland said:
"See the world clearly, and then love it."
Dear you, do you see the happiness you have?
Sometimes, just "being" is great happiness.
Have Mom and Dad around, even if they nag you all day;
There is a lover, even if he has all kinds of stinky diseases that you are not accustomed to;
There are children around, even if he is noisy and noisy to annoy you.