"What the hell can I do to live a happier life?"
Many people have asked themselves this question.
In order to live better, we work hard and live actively.
But also for happiness, some women choose to pretend to be celebrities and fish for golden turtles.
The heroine of the movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's", Holly, is such a "pseudonymous lady".
Born in poverty, in order to hook up with the rich, she dressed up as a celebrity and mixed with high society.
Privately, they live by the "makeup fees" given by men.
However, she seems to be utilitarian, but her dreams are very naïve.
She wants to marry a rich man, not for food and clothing, but to use money to build castles and live a fairytale-like peaceful life.
Holly, who has been displaced since childhood, is eager for such a sense of security.
Unfortunately, dreams are too naïve and most likely to fail.
Money and material things can indeed build a fortress of life, but there may not be happy people living in them.
Inner peace cannot rely solely on external matter, it requires us to understand when we are confused and to pursue in difficulties.
Even if the present is not satisfactory, life should be cherished
Many people have dreamed of a better future because of their immediate frustration.
But few people, like Holly, want to break with the present.
It only values a good future, and believes that since it is not perfect at the moment, it does not deserve to be cherished.
This peculiar concept of life impressed neighbor Paul.
When they first met, Paul borrowed a phone from Holly.
To his surprise, the female neighbor, though beautiful, was in a mess, with phones tucked into a suitcase and an unnamed cat.
Holly said with no concern that she didn't like it, she liked a quiet, noble, and reassuring place like the Tiffany Jewelry Store.
"When I can find a place like Tiffany in real life, then I will buy some furniture and give the cat a name."
As we chatted, Holly suddenly panicked, and it turned out that she was going to prison every Thursday to visit the mafia boss and get a hundred dollars from the lawyer.
Today, it's Thursday.
Despite being alerted of danger, Holly still had to go.
Paul said no more, sometimes persuasion was useless, holly did need money.
Just like himself, a writer who runs out of inspiration also makes a living by being a lover of a rich woman.
No matter how helpless, life must always go on.
But Holly, broke into his life again.
To escape the men's pestering, she escaped from the window into Paul's bedroom.
Although too presumptuous, he could not refuse this lovely woman.
"You're a bit like my brother Fett, do you mind if I call you Fett?"
Holly stared at Paul and groaned.
This is not pretending to be intimate, and the younger brother Fett is indeed the person Holly cares about the most.
In the name of a friend, Holly snuggled up to Paul and said longingly:
"I've been to Mexico, and it's great for keeping horses, and I've seen a place near the sea where Fett is great for keeping horses..."
In the blink of an eye, she was a little sad, saying that it costs money to buy land in Mexico, and the money in her bank account is always less than hundreds of yuan.
Paul listened in silence, a well-dressed, but poor woman who really wanted to marry a rich man.
But it seems that she is not for the sake of paper drunkenness, but to find a paradise.
There, there was no misfortune, and she and her family could live a happy and peaceful life.
The special woman, who inspired Paul, began to write again, at which point Holly's singing voice came from outside the window.
"Moon River, one day I will cross you... The river that stirs up dreams, the river that breaks the heart, wherever you go, I will go with you. ”
The lyrics are Holly's voice, she is longing and confused.
Just like many people in life, yearning for the beautiful other shore, but do not know when to arrive, the days have to live in a muddy nightmare.
But as Lin Qingxuan said: "Watching the sunset, those beautiful things fall with them; watching the sunrise, those beautiful things have not come again." ”
No matter how difficult the reality is, there is something beautiful about it, and there will be no more misses;
The future will come as expected, but the imaginary beauty may never come.
If you want happiness and tranquility, you can only grasp the present, even if the present is not satisfactory, the years should be cherished.
Many years later, Holly will suddenly find that she once deserved a better life.
Only those who know how to be happy can get happiness
The upheaval and displacement since childhood made Holly long for a sense of security.
The material scarcity of the past made it believe that money could solve all troubles.
For this reason, at the age of fourteen, she married an old widower doctor.
However, Holly still has no sense of belonging, and she finally runs away from home, targeting the rich.
Using marriage as a bargaining chip is indeed utilitarian.
But the more materially deprived people are, the easier it is to superstitiously believe in money.
In fact, material is only the skeleton of life, want to live flesh and blood is not empty, relying on money alone, far from enough.
Unbeknownst to her ex-husband, who still loves Holly, asks Paul for help and persuades his wife to go home.
The past is reminiscent of the past.
Holly is even more upset and is determined to marry the trust as soon as possible, although he is fat and bloated, he is a rich man.
Unfortunately, contrary to his wishes, the trust married other women, and it turned out that he was heavily indebted and had to rely on marriage to turn over.
Fate is sometimes very ironic, the backer who has high hopes, it turns out that the external strength is strong, and only he can rely on himself.
Holly was devastated, but thanks to the fact that Paul received the payment, the two decided to celebrate in a special way, trying something they hadn't done before.
They first went to the Tiffany jewelry store, which Paul had never been to, and it was indeed safe and quiet, but there were few goods he could afford.
The second stop is the library, Holly looks curiously, she has been displaced since childhood, stealing food and food, and is a "bad boy".
She had a sudden idea to take the "good boy" Paul to steal something.
The two cooperated with each other and actually stole two masks from the store.
The moment they walked out of the store, they were relieved, excited, and happy like children.
This scene is really emotional.
Holly and Paul, one is a pseudonym who wants to marry a rich man, and the other is a poor writer who relies on rich women.
They had all betrayed themselves for a better life.
But the happiness at this moment does not cost a penny, even if there is money, it cannot buy such joy.
In fact, who doesn't want to be happy?
However, most people are busy and give a lot, but the joy is not necessarily much.
Perhaps, this stems from a misconception about happiness.
Money and material things, of course, are necessary for life, but they do not necessarily make people happy.
What really makes us happy is that we are doing what we like on our hands and being accompanied by people we like.
Like Holly, what makes her smile like a flower is not to have Tiffany's jewelry, but to have the favorite Paul accompanying her, enjoying the tranquility of Tiffany together.
The imperfections of life can be filled with love
Holly fell in love with Paul, but denied it, because although thoughtful, she was not rich.
Just like your own life, even if there is something desirable, it is far from beautiful.
Truly beautiful, existing only in the perfect place of Tiffany, quiet and peaceful, no worries.
Unbeknownst to him, Paul breaks up with the rich woman and discovers that Holly has taken a brazilian rich man again.
He looked at his sweetheart sadly, knowing that he was in love with him, but refused to admit it.
This woman thought that if she married a rich man, her life would be perfect.
But is there really a perfect life in the world?
Holly avoided Paul's gaze and spent the day dating the rich man until she received a telegram of her brother's accidental death.
His brother is his only relative and his greatest spiritual sustenance.
When the bad news came, Holly almost collapsed, the Brazilian rich were helpless, and it was Paul who appeased her.
Despite this, he insisted on marrying brazil and achieving a "perfect life" in a place where there was no brother and no Paul.
This is clearly a demand, but if there is no demand in life, it is useless to force it.
Because, Holly was arrested.
It turned out that the weather forecast she passed during her visit to prison was actually mafia information.
Although released on bail, the rich man gave up on her for the sake of family honor.
Dreams are completely shattered, no matter how reluctant the dreamer is.
To this day, Holly still rejects Paul.
In her opinion, this man is not rich enough, and once he falls in love, he will be bound by the difficult reality and can no longer pursue a perfect life.
Paul couldn't bear it and said angrily:
"You are always afraid of being bound, in fact, you have long been locked up in a cage you have built, no matter where people are, you are always trapped in yourself." 」
With that, he walked into the rain without looking back.
At the end of the film, Holly still saves Paul, and the two kiss in the rain.
Taking this step is not easy.
People who cling to perfection can even delude themselves.
As Holly had expected to say, she would have nine Brazilian ghosts with the rich, who had dark skin like her father and green and beautiful eyes.
However, at this time, the rich man refused to propose marriage, and in order to avoid family criticism, even the plane to Brazil had to be separated from his girlfriend.
Holly had a vague hunch that even if she married a rich man, life might not be perfect.
It was only the yearning for beauty that covered her eyes and blinded her heart.
There are too many people in life who are like this.
I always feel that I am not good enough, my life is not good enough, and I am always on the road to becoming "better".
Mr. Ji Xianlin once said: "Everyone strives for a complete life." However, from ancient times to the present, at home and abroad, there is no one who is 100% complete. ”
Indeed, imperfection is the norm in life.
The sign of a person's growth is to want to become better; the sign of maturity is to be able to accept that it is not good enough.
The moment Holly accepted Paul, the little girl who had been hungry and cold really began to mature.
She finally understood that the imperfections of life can be filled with love.
The more you are injured, the more careful you must choose the path under your feet
Holly's experience is like the epitome of the life of some pseudonymous women.
The unsatisfactory life makes him long for happiness, so he wants to marry a rich man and get financial protection.
This is not entirely unreasonable, after all, in the real world, the lack of money is difficult to do.
External matter, however, cannot fully satisfy internal needs.
True happiness and tranquility come from sobriety and tolerance.
Really sober, only to understand what they need most;
If you are tolerant enough, you will understand that there is no perfection on the road of life, and you only seek half satisfaction in everything.
A person, the more injured, the more he must cherish himself and choose the path under his feet carefully.
As the writer Liu Yong said: "One sand and one world, one flower and one country." Life has no rehearsal, and time is difficult to turn back. ”
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