"Alive" is the representative work of writer Yu Hua, which tells how a person struggles and how to live with all his strength in a long time.
The story is set in a big era, the protagonist Fugui came from a landlord family, and when he was young, he became addicted to gambling and lost all the property in the family.
Since then, with the outbreak of civil wars, three antis and five reactions, the Great Leap Forward, etc., Fugui and his wife Jiazhen have lived involuntarily under the wrapping of the times.
Suffering, blood, death, as if endless, tragedies one after another, staged in turn.
At the twilight of life, all the people who passed by were gone, and only the old Fugui accompanied by an old cow reminisced about the past in the sun.
"There's nothing more convincing than time, because time can change everything without informing us."
There is nothing more cruel in this world than time, it is just, just to the point of cold-bloodedness.
It never stops for anyone, it always takes away many things from your life before you are caught off guard.
Compared with the time of thousands of years of the same but washed, destroyed, and buried everything, people are really small.
"We first came into this world because we had to come; eventually we left this world because we had to go."
In fact, whether we are born or die, we are equally powerless to fight back.
"The criterion for testing a person is to see where he has put his time."
We always say that time has no trace, in fact, time has traces, it remains on our bodies, in our hearts.
What you gain, what you lose, what you try to do, what you consume, time is on record.
"Man lives for the sake of being alive itself, not for anything other than being alive."
What is the meaning of life?
Perhaps we have all pondered such a question, consciously or unconsciously.
In order not to live up to parents, in order not to live up to lovers, in order not to be looked down upon, in order to be recognized by society...
We can have a thousand answers, but in the end there is only one:
In order not to live up to yourself, in order not to live up to this only one life.
"Don't be confused, the dead still want to come back to life, and you can't die as a big living person."
Being alive is not easy compared to dying.
At a certain special moment, a person should perhaps have the courage to die, such as for something more precious in his heart.
But this does not mean that life is not precious, we should have the courage to live more than death.
Those who have sacrificed are heroes, and those who live hard and tenaciously are not heroes?
Such a long life, so many thorns and ravines, such a dense pain, frustration, and sorrow, do you dare to walk bravely?
"Life is what everyone feels, not what anyone else thinks."
For a long time, I cared a lot about how other people felt.
Because of the inexplicable inferiority in my heart, because of the urgent desire for security, because of the fear of being isolated, I am always used to compromise, used to please others, and used to wronging myself.
Later, I gradually understood that each life is actually an independent planet, and even if you are close to each other, you are still two individuals.
Whether you are sad or happy, only you can really feel it.
Maybe the meaning of growth is a process of gradually moving towards loneliness, and you will slowly understand that 99% of the things that happen to us every day are meaningless to others.
Life is such a roaring train, and you are the only one at the helm, and others occasionally take this train, but they will eventually leave at a certain station, all passers-by.
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Author: Wen Gu, love to read more love life, may my words, give you a little warmth. Source: Guoguan, using words to record China, warming people's hearts with culture.