If everyone could advance their introspection by decades, 50% of people could make themselves an amazing person.
"Return to 17 years old", this name I have seen many times, there are many movies or TV series named after similar names, I have seen several countries, South Korea, the United States, China, Thailand. They may differ greatly in content, but the dissatisfaction they express about the status quo and the desire to go back in time to change their lives are common.
Back to when I was younger, I guess every middle-aged person trapped in life had expected it. Life in front of you is a mess, how good it is when you are young, don't think too much, carefree all day, step into middle age need to think about a lot of things, children, parents, the other half, the house, the car, work. One thing after another needs to be thought about, they will completely change a child, learn to bear, learn to accept, unconsciously forget their dreams, forget innocence, forget childishness.
I've seen similar movies in China, Thailand and the United States, and China and Thailand are much the same, and the United States is slightly different. This time I was watching the Japanese version of "Return to 17". I watch a lot of movies or books will have tears, not low tear points, the stronger people's empathy ability, the more sensitive they will be to treat things, movies and books for me are experiencing different lives.
At the beginning of the film, the male protagonist, Shinta Kaizaki, is resigned from his job and becomes an unemployed vagabond, pretending to be about to be promoted in front of his friends like every adult who wants face. Xintai, who has seen the ugliness of human nature in the workplace, does not understand why a good buyer would not resign because of the false accusations of his colleagues, he went to the leader to talk about it, and as a result he was dismissed, despite his hard work.
One night, a strange man appeared and gave Xintai a potion to return to the age of 17, Xintai was half-convinced, and when he returned home, he still took the medicine, returned to his 17-year-old appearance, and began a year-long campus life. Back at the age of 17, Xintai cherished every day and spent every day as if it were the last, he carefully arranged the graduation schedule, and hurriedly completed all the plans on the table. When a year passed, Shinta found what she wanted to do, and he studied hard and became a high school teacher.
Going back to 17 is an interesting hypothesis. The tombstone of St. Paul's Cathedral reads: "If time could be turned back, half the world's people would have become great men." ”
To be honest, I don't feel much about going back to something like 17. I have not entered the society, I will face what kind of life is unknown, whether it is bland, or difficult, all this is unknown, every day do not have to worry about how to survive, lip service to live in the moment, cherish the present, but still waste time, do all meaningless things.
Even if I have not yet tasted the pain of life, I am still willing to go back to 17 years old, learn knowledge well, cherish every day of life, and probably I will change my current life because of this, and maybe become a great person.
When you were young, you said that youth is your own capital, you can enjoy the jianghu, but after half a life, you still can't find the things you want to work for for a lifetime, half a life, get by, everything is spent in disappointment, maybe blame the injustice of life, the darkness of society, the hardships of the world, but isn't that all caused by your own choices?
When I went out to dinner with a few friends a few days ago, the friend next to me was still lamenting that there were so many choices in the past, but now there is only one, so I regret it. In fact, no matter when it is not too late, find your love, work hard for it, will encounter a lot of difficulties, encounter a lot of setbacks, these are just to verify whether you really love your love, never give up, no matter how difficult, how much time is left, you must persevere to the end.
What the film wants to express is very simple, that is, to cherish the present, a bowl of very ordinary chicken soup, but how many people can do it?
A person can emit a huge amount of energy, not as philosophers often say, human beings are so small in front of the universe, deny themselves, deny the race, should not be so pessimistic, the sun will always burn out one day, the earth will always have a day, stop rotating, in this silent space, the existence of human beings has created a civilization, the greatness of life is far more than what we know and feel, it is so charming, sparkling in the endless galaxy.