"There is no difference between being a human being without dreams and salted fish," Xingye said in "Shaolin Soccer". So you also ask yourself: Do I still have the dream of that youth? The pride of "drawing a sword to help each other" seems to be only far away from the bridge in the childhood movie. Mediocrity has become a true portrayal of you. Looking back on the past without sighing.
Excerpt from Shaolin Soccer
"In the future, the heavy responsibility of punishing adultery and eliminating evil and maintaining world peace will be entrusted to you---" this is what the beggar in "Kung Fu" said to Ah Xing when he peddled the palm of the god. Maybe when we were young, we all had a heroic dream of saving the world and maintaining peace like Superman. But in the end, they will be humiliated by reality like Ah Xing in the film. Then helplessly say that the work is too busy to save the world.
As children, we only need to have dreams, and all that remains is to live carefree lives, like Superman, who never needs to think about where to live and what to eat after saving the world. Because parents and family took on everything else for us. But when you and I grow up without the protection of our parents and begin to face all aspects of life, you realize that dreams are originally based on living materials, and Superman cannot go hungry and bare-ass to save the world.
So you gradually throw your dreams into the corner in the daily life of maintaining the basic life. When you are used to living desperately, and then look back at your previous ideals, you feel that it is a child's play. You no longer believe in the dreams of your youth, no longer fantasize about your changes. Because you're tired, you're afraid, you're timid. Think that no one can escape the cage of fate. We are destined to live so humbly, we can't become the hero in our hearts, let alone save the world---
But what is a hero? The hero is not venting his grievances and then being admired by thousands of people, favored by his family and loved by society, nor is he trying to get fame, status, beauty, flowers. In "Kung Fu", the beggar also says another sentence to Ah Xing: "I will not go to hell, who will go to hell". This word charter wife also said, "Since ancient times, good and evil are not separated, I will not go to hell, who will go to hell" To be a hero, you must have the spirit of sacrifice.
To become a hero is to pay a great price, even to give up everything and forget to die in order to fight against powerful evil and compete with difficulties. It's not that you're not strong enough, it's not that you don't have time, it's not that you're unfair to heaven, it's that you're weak, you're afraid, you're afraid to bear it, you're not afraid to fight, you're not going to hell. It's not that life destroys your dreams, it's that you've given up on your own before you even fight.
You feel that you have matured in life, and you laugh at your original ideals, which feels extremely childish. You don't know that life is also laughing at you in the dark, incomparably weak. True maturity is learning how to stick to your ideals and beliefs in a harsh reality and find your original intention. It's breaking through the cocoon into a butterfly, it's being reborn from the fire, it's getting up again and again in failure, getting back on the road, and going forward more firmly.
Just like the teenager Rudy in "Chasing Dreams and Pure Hearts", he resigned from the factory at the age of 22 and embarked on the road to pursue his dream - the football team of the University of Notre Dame, followed by hard work and study, hard to take the exam for four years, and when he was about to despair, he got the notice of the ideal university, the University of Notre Dame. The price was that his girlfriend became his brother's fiancée.
Entering college also requires joining the team. With his tenacious fighting spirit, rudy was selected by the coach to be a substitute for the varsity team, but he never had the opportunity to play. It was another three years, and when Rudy decided to quit the team, the negroes who had helped him once again encouraged him to live up to his efforts.
Finally, with the support and efforts of his teammates, Rudy came off the bench at a critical moment of an important game, helping the team win the game, and the parents and family who appeared on the scene were also excited.
In the real world, there are really a lot of bumps and obstacles. It takes us to fight with real guns. Fight against their own weakness, hypocrisy, evil, and social pressure to seduce and fight unfairly. Of course you will also pay a lot for this, but if you don't fight, if you don't work hard, you won't lose?
Of course not! So brave to face it and try to fight, maybe you have a glimmer of life, for us this is enough, at least a hundred years later, you look back and say with relief, I really tried everything. I have bravely faced and fought. Enough is enough!
In the ears, the ones sung in "Chasing Dreams and Pure Hearts" sounded:
I want to sail in that blue sea
Don't be afraid if you can return it
That's a sign of cowardice
Clench your fists as long as you have a breath
Before dawn
Be braver and move forward
Greeted with cold eyes and ridicule
Even if the blood is spilled all over the arms
With the pride of a naked child
Wait for the brightest moment
For the good in my heart
Don't compromise until you get old
(Common Encouragement)