Freedom and love are eternal themes and can also become everyone's pursuit, but never lose yourself because of it. Because freedom and love are not the essence of man.
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- The Spirit Recluse
Just finished watching a movie based on a true story, the name of the movie is "The Professor and the Madman", I recommend you to go and see it too. For me, this film can be more profound.
It is profound because of the fact that I have experienced sadness. My cousin, who probably jumped off a building due to schizophrenia or fantasia, is less than a hundred days old today. In his final days, I accompanied him. He was in a state of extreme anxiety and fear, and until then, he had not exhibited any mentally disturbed behavior.
From abnormal behavior to jumping off a building, it is only 3 days. He always said that someone was chasing him and wanted to kill him. He always asked, "What to do?" In the end, it is very likely that he jumped off the building to avoid the pursuit that only existed in his mind. Similar to the protagonist in the movie who has a war emergency obstacle, the protagonist is always in the illusion of persecution, and he always hurts himself.
Many readers do not understand, why do people have fantasies? Strictly speaking, this is an unsolved mystery. But strictly speaking, I would say that fantasy is precisely the function of thinking that people develop in order to protect themselves. This can be drawn from the fact that most people's hallucinations are not beautiful. Of course, it cannot be ruled out, because of physiological obstacles, which lead to fantasies and hallucinations. For example, a person's tinnitus, as long as it is awake, he can always hear the sound of whistles or trains, but in fact, there is no corresponding factual stimulus.
The night before his cousin's death, he wrote in the mirror: "I am a bad person, and everyone who cares about me has to die— the law of society." "He may have spoken of the fact that love is. The people who really care about me are the people who love me. And there is love to have fear, if love is irresistible, then fear is also irresistible. Can't bear love, don't understand love, can't let go of love or not... In this way, "I am the bad guy.". So what should the bad guy end up like?
It's like when I went to get his ID card, he said, "I don't dare let my brother go, for fear that someone will be unfavorable to me." "[It's his imagination] I said it was okay, I was safe. The next day, he insisted on going with me, saying he couldn't let me bear it alone. And the fear he bears increases little by little, until he breaks through the psychological defense line. When he reached the location, he suddenly shouted, "Help, help." "And run out of the car."
In the movie, the "madman" kills the husband of one of his wives due to schizophrenia. By reaching out to him, the wife made a shift from hate to love. The wife wrote a note: "If love ... How? The madman said, "He shouldn't be redeemed." "You can't rob the dead man's wife." And the last wife gave him the answer: "If you love, then love." ”
"If you love, then love." This may also be the true meaning of love and freedom. Love is naturally revealed, and to be able to put this love into action is freedom, it is the freedom to love, it is the love of freedom.
Spirit Recluse Oil Painting
In fact, this sentence does not contain the difference between men and women, the difference in age, the difference in nationality, the difference between life and death...
What moved me about the film was also that what he was talking about was that the professor and the madman worked together to annotate and explain each word. And it is interpreted along the trajectory of history. Therefore, we must not forget that the word "love" is also marked and changed by the times. Who was the first person to write "love" in Chinese characters, and did his initial intention was "love" itself? What is the same functional word as "love"? Aren't you curious about all this? If you're not curious, how do you define "love"? How do you understand "love"? If you don't know what "love" is, then the above sentence "If you love, love" is poison for you, it is chicken soup, it is the opposite effect.
As the protagonist "Madman" says, I can only control myself when I read. Only when you can control yourself can you decide your direction, and your direction will or can run in the direction of "love".
Women in love will always ask, "What do you love about me?" "Do you love me?" "Am I your only one?" "Do you really love me?" ...... See? There is a saying of "true love" and "false love". But what is "true love"? What is "fake love" has different answers for different people. So many people love one after another, especially in the era when "freedom" is highly developed - today.
There is no doubt that love and freedom are precious at all times. Just like the existence of the Oxford Dictionary, it is a symbol of love and freedom. Hopefully, everyone can start from the dictionary to know the world and know themselves, is this not love?
Cangjie is one of the ancient Chinese myths and legends, and I believe he is true. Because there is always the first person to stand up and do this, why can't this person be "Cangjie"? Starting from Cangjie, looking for each Chinese character, the initial appearance and later evolution, to make our own "Oxford Dictionary", for us, is our own retrospective and loving of ourselves.
Do you know that everyone who has been frozen to death, such as the person who is in distress on Mount Everest, does not have a sinister expression, is that why? Because what they finally feel is light and heat. They will even take off their clothes because they feel hot. Obviously, we are clearly hallucinators, and we can also understand it as the "protection" of consciousness for our own life, forcing people to feel "hot" and "warm". At this time, whether consciousness is "real" or "fake" for our protection seems to be beyond our control and judgment, and this is its charm, that is, our charm!
Freedom and love are eternal themes and can be everyone's pursuit, but never lose yourself for it. Because freedom and love are not the essence of man.
Excerpted from essays by independent scholars, writers, and artists.