Is it hard to live? For the elderly who have to endure a series of concurrent conditions brought about by aging, it is certainly difficult to live. If you are caught in a stubborn disease at a young age, career love is not a mess, so it is more difficult to live. Many people often sigh after entering the society, if you can stay in your youth forever, you only need to carry a school bag to school, after class and friends to discuss what gossip today, as soon as you go home, there are hot meals on the table, as if there is no world's troubles. Memories are always good, does this mean that students will not have the trouble of being alive?
Some time ago, the term "13-year-old girl drank paraquat" quickly rose to the top few of the hot searches. Paraquat, a poison that "gives people time to regret, but does not give people a chance to live". How much grievance does a 13-year-old child have to choose such a way to die? It can be seen that the difficulty of living is not in age, not in stages.
The life of an ordinary person
Think about it, a few years after the birth of the mother's womb, we will go to school, finish today's homework, and the teacher will assign tomorrow's homework. Desperately trying to get into a good high school, but also to get into a good university. Aren't we tired? After graduating from college, I have to run into walls on all sides to find a job, stabilize my job, have a small amount of capital, spend it to fall in love, finalize the object, and desperately try to make money to get married. Aren't we bitter?
Getting married is a complete life event, but because I have a home, I left a mortgage and a car loan. Before the supply was finished, there was an accident, a child was born, there was an additional maintenance fee, and there was an education fee that could not be lost at the starting line. Can we rest? When people reach middle age, the child becomes an adult and thinks that the task has been completed. As a result, within a few years, I had to worry about the marriage of my children, and finally entered old age, my children and grandchildren wrapped around my knees, less worries, and finally raised my life, but at that time I was not far from death. Can we avoid it? At a certain age, living people have long understood that suffering and suffering is the norm in life. There are only two kinds of people who have the privilege of rest, the rich and the dead. The rich can rest for a while, the dead can sit back and relax, and ordinary people have been fighting a protracted war all their lives.
The essence of life is the courage to live
The collapse of adults often lies in one moment, one second life full of expectations, the next second will fall into the trough. I want to love the world again, I want to love my work again, but I don't know why, I always feel that I am imprisoned in a certain situation, others can't get in, and I can't get out. The mood can not be said to others, the whole person is tightly surrounded by a huge negative emotion, for a moment, feel that there is no hope of life. Some people will quietly hide these negative emotions and pretend that nothing has happened; some people feel that they can't hide it, and they will explode; and some people will endure to a certain limit, go directly to an extreme, and choose to end their lives. However, I have always felt that there is nothing difficult about living, and some people are not even afraid of death, let alone living.
Until I watched Yu Hua's "Alive", after watching it, my mind was full of rich and his old cow, and the child who did not have enough to eat but died because of blood donation. It is not an exaggeration to say that after that, every time I think of "Alive", the tears can't stop spilling, the protagonist's rich life, bitterly shocking, he has no achievements, but just because of the two words "alive", enough to make me feel his greatness. Every time I endure hardships and encounter injustices, I open "Alive" and look at the life of a rich man, and I can go on again.
Living heroism
The rich man suffered all his life, but he never gave in, the blows of fate were one after another, and when he was old, there was only a yellow cow as a companion, and his loneliness was the loneliness in his bones, a helplessness that no one could rely on. His ups and downs of life, young and crazy, middle-aged frustrated, desolate in his old age, every stage of his life, there is a shadow of ourselves, but no matter in such a low, he can always have a way to make himself alive. This reminds me of a famous quote by Romain Rolland: "There is only one true heroism in the world, that is, to recognize the truth of life and still love it." ”
He came to the human world once, experienced the joys and sorrows, saw through it, lived and understood, and was not afraid of any wind and rain. Because for him, living itself has meaning, whether it is a achievement or not. Because to live means not to yield and not to admit defeat. Like Hemingway's old man fighting the big fish, you can destroy me, but I will never be defeated! Being able to endure the cruelty of fate and persevere all the way through thorns is itself a kind of heroism. Yu Hua's "Alive" has been translated into many Chinese words, selling well at home and abroad, and the major book lists have a ranking of "Alive" all year round, and it remains high.
Some people say that reading "Alive" has seen the misery of life, the optimism and strength of the people at the bottom, the flexibility of life, and the silent power of fate and years. In this impetuous and noisy era, such a book can let you see the meaning of life, can make your heart re-condense, and can bring you a steady stream of hope. So many people like it precisely because it gives us strength and hope, whenever I feel that I can't live, "Alive" will save me once, if you also think it is difficult to live, just see how Fugui lives.