The Outsider: When you are not understood by the whole world, do you still have the courage to stand up for yourself?

The author of the million-best-selling book "The Outsider" is Camus, and the author uses extremely cold and bystander brushstrokes to ask the world the problem that everyone encounters in life: When you are not understood by society and the world, do you still have the courage to insist on being yourself?

In fact, the core plot is very simple, one is Meursault attending his mother's funeral, and the other is the story of him shooting and killing an Arab, and finally giving up the opportunity to appeal and being sentenced to death.

Mersall is a very strange person. Unlike Jullien, he was interested in fame and fortune; unlike Ximen Qing, his erotic lust filled his entire life. He's not interested in anything, and in the world of purple and red dust, it's hard to imagine that this is an outsider.

It is not too much to describe it in Lu Xun's words: human sorrow and joy are not the same, I only think they are noisy. "The staggering and the group carnival are all yours, nothing to do with me."

Mersall was tired of socializing and socializing, and on weekends, all he had to do was read the newspaper, quietly stay on the balcony, watch the people coming and going downstairs, walking in a hurry, returning and leaving, no hobbies, just in a daze.

At work, there is no self-motivation and desire to pursue: the boss wants to set up an office in Paris, let him open up the market, show his fists, promote and raise, but his reply is that it does not matter whether there is or not, what life is similar.

In terms of love, not taking the initiative and not rejecting is not responsible, the girlfriend asked him whether he loved himself, and his reply was that it didn't matter if he loved or not. The girlfriend asked again, if someone proposes to you, will you agree? He said yes.

The most exaggerated thing is that his mother died, and he doesn't know which day she died, and the novel begins, "I don't know if my mother died today or yesterday." "It's deafening. At the funeral, he did not shed tears, did not want to see the last side of his mother's remains, drank coffee and smoked in front of the body, and went swimming and opening a room with his girlfriend the day after the funeral.

His actions were not tolerated by society, and he was finally sentenced to moral death.

He is a loner who stays out of the way, an outsider who no one understands, a deviant nihilist. He didn't care about the fame, nobility, the perfect family we are pursuing today, the bustle of flowers.

From our point of view today, is he not a scumbag who does not think of making progress, gets by, and looks like a flesh-walking scumbag?

But in fact, all this performance is determined by his outlook on life. Meursault was an outright nihilist. He believes that life is meaningless, worthless, and incomprehensible. When he was in prison, he felt like he was living a novel life, not in prison; when he was finally sentenced to death, he accepted that he thought it would be the same whenever he died.

So what does he care about? He cares most about being his truest self, even if he is the enemy of the whole world.

Once, I didn't understand very much, he obviously had a chance to live, why would he be willing to give up?

In prison, when being questioned in turn, a prosecutor has been encouraging Mersol that as long as you convert to God and believe in Christianity, then God can save you, and Mersall's choice is to give up the opportunity to appeal rather than change the truest view in his heart.

The lawyer asked him if he could say that he was sad on the day his mother died. His answer was, no, I don't lie. When he first learned that he had been sentenced to death, Meursault flashed a trace of fear, he said, but then quickly figured it out, he felt that "since death is inevitable, it is not a big deal when and how to die." ”

Finally he made the strongest sound of his roar to Shinsuke, saying, "He is not sure that he is not dead, although I have nothing, but I can grasp myself, grasp all of mine, much better than him." "In his opinion, I can really grasp the life of this moment, I am real, my life is meaningful.

In this way, finally, under the moonlight around him, accompanied by stars, Meursault died generously and completed the grand sacrifice of his true self.

I think the biggest revelation that Mersall has brought to us is that when you are in front of the strange eyes of the people around you, when you are not understood by others, do you choose to compromise with others and integrate into their hilarity, or do you keep your own coldness and loneliness?

The former may be a predictable flower bloom waiting for you, and if you choose the latter, it may be a "strange person" in the eyes of others. Do you really dare to be your true self?

For example, during college, many people in order to get credits, in order to earn scholarships, they try their best to engage in socializing, to participate in activities, and you think these are meaningless, or buried in learning, can you completely do nothing?

When you are at work, with your excellent ability to quickly promote and raise, so the company rumors are rife, all people began to turn away from you, have an opinion of you, can you bear not to explain?

When you graduate from college, you don't get the understanding and support of your parents, you don't want to be a civil servant in your hometown, but you insist on going to the big city, do you have to convince them to understand you?

When your husband cheats and you don't divorce, do you have the courage to face the people around you and say that you can't do without cheating scumbags, and don't you divorce?

Speaking of this, it must be said that many women, for some reason, do not dare to divorce their husbands after divorce, but they feel very humiliated, so they have to keep brainwashing people around them to say that they are not divorced for their children and want to get the understanding of others. In fact, this is simply redundant. What does it matter if you don't understand?

In fact, there are many moments when people are not understood, and no one can fully understand you, even soul mates. Many times we are considered out of place with the world. It doesn't matter, as long as we understand ourselves, we know that we have been holding on to our original selves in our own way.

Remembering the Jiajing years in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, Yan Song's father and son's dictatorship mistook the country, social contradictions intensified, many ministers in the DPRK were dissatisfied with them, there were outspoken yang jisheng who was killed by Yan Song's father and son with a plot, Xia Yan was killed, and later Xu Jie endured humiliation and burden for decades, TaoGuang raised obscurity, smiled at Yan Song's father and son, bowed to his knees, and even married his granddaughter to Yan Song's grandson as a partial house.

This aroused the anger and scolding of many people at that time, and everyone felt that xu Jie, such a minister, was actually a soft bone. But Xu Jie did not explain, silently endured, he knew very well what he was doing, he had always maintained his true self from beginning to end, and finally used his wisdom to eliminate Yan Song in one fell swoop and become the first assistant of the cabinet.

In the past, I always liked to seek the approval, understanding and support of others, and then I found that in life, we really don't need to seek everyone's understanding, such as some people say that you have no opinion, some people say that you have a twisted personality, some people say that you are lively and optimistic, do you want to pull the ideas of those who do not understand you one by one? There's no need at all, and you don't live for them either.

Always remember, you must live your true self, even if you are not understood by others, their understanding will not make you rich and invincible!

But if you lose your true self, all your efforts are meaningless.

Hopefully, years from now, you're no longer the same person you were, but you're still the real you, not assimilated by what they call the secular world.