The Tao is different, not conspiratorial.
No one will always be waiting for you where you are.
Believe it or not, you can look at the circle of friends, those who you can not "resonate with the same frequency", will eventually fade out of your circle of friends. And so are you.
The movie "Brooklyn" shows this process in a panoramic way.
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When you are useless, the circle of friends is only barren.
The movie "Brooklyn" tells the story of Alice, an Irish town girl in the 1950s, with the help of a priest, who crossed the ocean to an open and developed foreign country, and through hard study and integration into work, realized the life change from "Cinderella" to "White Swan".
At the beginning of the film, Alice is just a sales clerk in a shop in the town, and the shop owner is mean and snobbish, but Alice does not dare to resist, because such job opportunities are very few.
Alice has a rich girlfriend, and at the young people's ball, the handsome boys compete to invite the girlfriend to dance, while Alice is not noticed by anyone.
Although she was so intelligent, beautiful, kind, and capable. But in that small town with limited resources, the only people who are attracted attention are rich and idle people like her girlfriends.
At that time, Alice's circle of friends only had boring work, boring socializing, and her mother's worries, and her sister was uneasy to help each other.
Except for her sister's strong support, which allowed her to see a glimmer of hope in life, the rest was suffocating. Even her attempt to inform the shopkeeper that she was going to cross the ocean was repeatedly interrupted. No one believed that this weak girl could still have the opportunity to "change her life".
This ubiquitous repression is the truest portrayal of a person at the trough of life.
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When you start chasing dreams, the circle of friends will set off ripples.
Alice reluctantly embarked on the cruise ship, and after a bumpy journey, she came to a strange country and stayed in an apartment dedicated to hosting young girls. Everyone was busy working during the day, and at night they were tormented to tears by a strong sense of homesickness.
In order to persevere, Alice once again followed the priest's advice and went to night school to learn accounting business. Enriching herself in the busyness and finding a way out of the predicament, Alice at this time, many new faces appeared in the circle of friends
There are stern landlords, female companions of the same age, various customers in department stores, understanding supervisors, learned night school teachers, and classmates who are also struggling but unwilling to back down.
In the unfamiliar environment, in the unfamiliar faces, Alice gradually found a clear self-positioning. She is not satisfied with being a saleswoman, but prefers to be an accountant and integrate into the lives of locals.
So, she also went to the dance and met the kind and warm Tony, and the two fell in love, and she was no longer just attached to her mother and sister in her hometown, but had her own life.
Man, as long as you bravely take a small step forward, life will have a completely different realm. Once and again, you muster up the courage to break the boundaries of self-knowledge, and you will reap the gifts of unexpected fate again and again.
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When you achieve a gorgeous turn, you can only be a circle of friends from before.
Just as Alice gradually has her own life, her sister Rose, who has been helping her and loving her deeply, dies of illness, and Alice can no longer bear the strong thoughts of her mother, and leaves for home for a period of repair.
When Alice, dressed in a bright yellow, well-cut dress, appeared in front of her girlfriend's eyes again, the girlfriend's eyes flowed with unstoppable envy, and at that moment, Alice seemed to see her former self.
She was fashionably dressed, confident, and invited by her sister's company to work part-time, and for a time, Alice became the object of everyone's pursuit and envy, and the most famous rich children in the town also surrounded her every day.
The love at hand, the rich marriage, the respected job, and the highly respected social status, everything that Alice had dared not have imagined before, has now become a reality. She herself was in a bit of a trance, wasn't that the life she had been longing for?
However, Alice's dream soon woke up, and the former shopkeeper could not wait to humiliate her on the grounds that he had mastered her marriage. Alice finally understood that nothing had changed in the town, and that familiar circle still had stubborn arrogance and prejudice.
Alice didn't want to stay in the town for a moment, she booked the fastest return ferry ticket, and went to the far side without looking back. She didn't say goodbye to her girlfriend or say goodbye to the rich boy who was passionately pursuing her. Even she was determined to give up spending time with her mother.
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Conclusion:
Some people's circle of friends, you will eventually stay away.
Alice returned to a foreign land on the other side of the ocean, where there was a stage for her, her lover, her life.
At the end of the movie, Alice's monologue: "This heart is my hometown".
We can imagine that Alice and her former girlfriends, friends, and family will only become more and more distant, so that they will lose contact; they will eventually write their own wonderful lives in their own life journeys, in a completely different wonderful world.
The person who strives to chase the dream will no longer stay by the side of the person who is "standing still". The blessing is still there, but it will be indefinite.
Author: Like the wind is light as a cloud.
Your happiness, my blessings.
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