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Desire is like a flower blooming on the edge of a cliff, charming and dangerous.
The Canadian short film The Next Floor tells the story of eleven brightly dressed up people in a dimly lit room who hold a gourmet feast, with dedicated servants and bands serving their feast. But as time went on, the food on the table was constantly added, they sucked wildly, and their desires continued to increase, and finally caused the eleven people to fall endlessly along with the table, never ending.
Among the people who attend the banquet in the film, each of them is well-dressed, and different outfits represent different identities, and they are all people with great status in their respective fields. They gather here, perhaps everyone's purpose is different, but in this environment, the desire for food is the best embodiment of their purpose. Because with the adaptation of the environment, their desire for food has far exceeded their instincts, but has turned to more terrible desires.
In this endless feast of food, these tempting foods on the table are like a world full of all kinds of temptations, and everyone is desperately trying to add food to their plates and want to have more.
In this competition for a gastronomic "feast", no one can be left alone, because desire is contagious, there will always be the idea of not being left behind, and there will always be struggle and assimilation in the face of self-desire.
Everyone will have desires, more or less, big or small, maybe about work, life, emotions or other aspects, and desire is a double-edged sword: on the one hand, because you need to achieve a certain purpose, you will use this desire as your motivation to urge yourself to become better; on the other hand, very few people will always maintain the original pure purpose to continue, often when you reach a new stage, or have a certain social status, you need, with a series of changes in the environment, etc. The existing ones can no longer satisfy you, so you will have bigger goals, more desires, and never-ending "next levels."
There is a lady in the film who is richly dressed and elegant, and at the beginning, everyone is eating wildly regardless of manners, she has been chewing slowly and eating very elegantly. When the servants added food to the guests on the table, she chose to refuse, and at this moment, she looked sad and incompatible with the people around her, but she did not have the initial rejection of this "feast" of food. In the end, watching the people around her eat with relish, she was also infected, and she ate happily, truly integrated into this environment, and finally fell into the never-ending "next layer" with everyone.
I like a sentence in "Love Lotus Says" that "the lotus comes out of the mud without staining, and the mud is clear and not demon", to some extent, this is not only a standard, but also a realm, a realm that has gone through the world without being sophisticated.
We live in this complicated world, like a lotus pond, some people are in the pond, some people are outside the pond, people come and go. Everyone's desires are different, the degree of desire for this desire is also different, and the purpose that nature wants to achieve is also different. But no matter what the starting point is, it will eventually be mud-stained, but some people can be reborn, and some people are deeply confused.
Everyone makes countless choices in their lifetime. It could be when you pick up someone else's stuff, it could be when the leader says you have a chance to compete for a promotion, it could be a key moment in a final, and... Many scenes, every choice, is a contest between you and your own desires.
Desire is the lost heart when your intention is infinitely magnified, you always think that you are just a bystander, but when you make a choice, you have already become a person in the game.
In the face of the unbridled spread of desire, we are accustomed to making excuses for ourselves: like the next example, I just did what I did, I am not a greedy person... Words like these constantly find psychological comfort for themselves. I always think that my little obsession is not a desire, but the truth is that if desire is a circle, it should not only be the size, and whether it is suitable for you at this time, after all, there is no special case in front of desire.
If the people in the film don't eat endlessly, but stop at the right time, maybe they won't fall to the next level endlessly, maybe it's another story. Although the story in the film is a foregone conclusion and we cannot change it, when we face desire, everything is optional, because looking up at the stars on the ground is the most beautiful.
Desire is a presence that cannot be ignored in each of our lives, you cannot predict when it will appear, nor do you know where it will come from or where it will take you, but one thing is clear that you can dominate it, rather than being led by desire and not knowing it.
Desire, literally, represents the degree to which we desire something or something. A certain goal we want to achieve is, in a sense, also a motivation for us.
In the face of desire, we must learn to stop at the right time, learn to judge rationally, just as you want to achieve a certain purpose, for fame or profit, you want to think clearly, whether this name or profit will belong to you, and whether the path you choose is the right path.
So learn to turn your desires into reasonable motivation, let this motivation give you positive incentives; learn to control this desire within the range you can bear, do not overestimate yourself, do not underestimate yourself too much, face yourself squarely, not extreme, not excessive.
Regarding desire, there is such a sentence "desire, deep and bottomless, paper drunk gold fans or drunken dreams die only in one thought", which is a very desperate sentence, but the world is changeable, since there can be more suitable choices, why force yourself to the edge of the cliff, dilemma? So, don't let desire dominate your life, your life belongs to you, don't put yourself in a dilemma because of your own thoughts.
Everyone's life is special, you will have traveled a lot of roads, seen different landscapes, proper desire satisfaction, and maybe it will make you move forward faster.
But endless desire will not make you see farther, but will make you fall into an endless abyss, and it is difficult to get out.
Those of us who live in this ordinary world are all laymen and will all ask for something, but everything we ask for is in the right path, and everything has a degree, and so on.