There has been such an investigation, if you can see the future in advance, would you like to know the exact time of your death? Most people choose not to, but I think I belong to that small group of people.
Knowing how long I can live is a relief for me. But as it turned out, I wasn't so at ease. This passage is selected from an American movie "Bucket List", let us explore the true meaning of life together.
The film begins with a question: What is the meaning of life?
Everyone has a different opinion on the answer to this question, and there are many opinions. Think that life does not have any meaning, or look at what this person has brought to society and the world and left behind.
Edward's answer was: "See the meaning of life in those who use you as a mirror, see the meaning of your own existence."
Can these different views resonate with you? I believe that some people will agree, but there are also people who will still be unwilling in their hearts and do not think that their existence has no meaning.
The development of life trajectories is different, resulting in the existence and values of each of us are different. Of course, there will be no fixed answer to the meaning of life, but it does not mean that it is an unsolvable proposition.
The film tells a very ordinary story, in a hospital room, living two elderly people who are dying. A very ordinary black Carter, and a white Edward.
Carter's family was not wealthy, but the family had a very good relationship and had a warm little home. He maintained a peaceful mind, and even in the face of death did not allow himself to live in pain, he was content.
Edward and Carter, on the other hand, were the opposite kind of people, who had spent their entire lives dedicating themselves to medical causes, and at the end of their lives, they were admitted to the wards they were familiar with. Edward was rich, but he was not happy, but very lonely.
These two dying old men are undoubtedly people of two worlds, and the only thing they have in common is that they have cancer.
Time is a good helper for them. The two went from ignoring each other at first to becoming close comrades-in-arms. The two also suffered from the pain of illness, and under the condition of getting along, they also developed feelings of pity for the same disease.
Carter's dream as a young man was to become a history teacher, and he had the ideal of seeing mountains and rivers in his heart. But none of this is achieved. Two different lives, but there are different regrets in life.
By chance, Edward saw Carter's bucket list. Edward was shocked, and it was at this point that Edward realized that Carter also had a desire to take risks.
The two then hit it off and decided to embark on an adventurous journey at this last time.
They found courage in death, landed freely from a mighty height, spreading their wings like birds and flying between heaven and earth. Two white-haired old men left all unpleasant things behind.
They climbed mountains together, raced cars, and all kinds of dust buried in the past seemed to be left behind by them with this time.
Two old people at the end of their lives, looking for a different meaning of life.
We are like people on the journey who gradually come to the end, the time is for us, and death is the end of the journey.
Carter confessed to Edward on his journey that he had an unfillable gap in his life, and he couldn't get out of it.
But during this journey, he found that what he missed most was not all other ideals, but his wife, who had long been a part of his life.
So he still has to go back, back to his wife's side, and it is his own inner peace around her.
This love is precious, and the gap in Carter's heart still needs to be filled with love. Although sometimes I get bored and can't breathe, this feeling is still addictive and I don't want to escape.
Edward, on the other hand, was not a good husband and had great wealth. But a lifetime of mercy, resulting in a lonely old age, no one around.
He was also a good father and was willing to give everything he had for his daughter. Even if he is hated by his daughter, he must protect her from domestic violence in his own way.
At the last moment, with Carter's encouragement, he knocked on his daughter's door. He faced his daughter's restraint and could not break free from the warmth of this family, and at this moment, his floating heart finally found its home.
Edward's monologue at the end of the film is: "I have not dared to say easily what the meaning of life is until now, but I can say that at the moment of death, the eyes are closed, but the heart is open." 」 ”
At the end of the film, it does not tell us specifically what is the meaning of life? Edward and Carter both died and were placed on top of a snow-capped mountain. As Edward said, they closed their eyes, but they also opened their hearts.
They lived earnestly, and the last journey of their lives was as short as a summer flower. Even if they have never received the value of existence in their lives, they have burned their entire lives with this journey.
The length of life we cannot predict, but the direction of life is something we can grasp. We don't know when our lives will end, but we can burn ourselves from this moment on.
In our lifetime, no one is perfect, and we can only try our best to find the value of life. Everything is blooming in front of you, but the spirit is falling apart. Whether we are all in this state of being in the present day or not.
After watching this film, should we reflect on our own living conditions? If you are one of these two old people, will you also remain calm when you experience death?
As open-minded as theirs, regardless of everything behind them, come on a walk-and-go trip. Life is short, how can we make ourselves shine.
Everyone has different opinions, but no matter what you think, you must end up yearning for the good. Yearning for a healthy body, yearning for a better life.
The harder life is, the more you have to love yourself. No matter what kind of family, no matter what kind of life, it is a gift from fate to us.
Don't give up life easily because of the unfairness of fate and the failure to work well. Even with the worst script, you are the protagonist of life.
The movie is over, but our lives are not over. Our movies are still played every day. Without reaching the last moment, no one can define the life after that.
There is no concrete definition of the meaning of life, what you live like, then life is like that.
We have to embrace the ordinary every day and live the present wonderful and fulfilling life.
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