Chapter 1913: 1913 Dream Life

Saying goodbye to several cheerful uncles, Hugo walked along the street again. Not far away is an elementary school. The spacious basketball court and tall flagpoles stand out among the surrounding patterned buildings. , which is also the first distinctive building that Hugo has seen so far.

Standing at the gate of the school, you can see the children in the classroom. A little boy near the window is deserting. When he caught Hugo's sight, he couldn't help showing a shy smile, but he still waved his hand boldly. This made Hugo laugh dumbly, and he also raised his right hand and waved it. But before the little boy responded, he saw the figure of the teacher walking over. The little boy immediately lowered his head obediently, with a look of concentration on his face. This playful episode reminded Hugo of his childhood when he was studying, and couldn't help but smile.

At this time, a young woman with a baby carriage came towards me on the street. She was wearing a sun hat, with a leisurely look on her face, and she showed a friendly smile to Hugo, "Good afternoon." Hugo also said He returned a friendly smile, nodded, and then the two passed by.

It can be felt that the whole town is filled with a peaceful and cozy atmosphere, as if time has slowed down here, and the bustling and noisy world is completely isolated from the calm Atlantic Ocean, forming a... a real paradise.

Footsteps slowly stepped on the road one by one, but Hugo began to think, what is it like to live in such a small town?

I was born on this small island since I was a child. I don’t have the prosperity of the city, but I am not poor and backward. I have never been short of food and clothing, but I have never experienced the luxury and prosperity of the upper class. The friends around me are also like this. , There is no obvious gap between the rich and the poor, so there is not much comparison between each other, and the similar family environment and living environment make everyone full of common topics.

Of course, my parents have the pressure of mortgage, but this is not the bustling and noisy New York, nor the resort Boracay, nor the Hamptons where the rich gather, so even if there is pressure, it will not make life lose its rhythm. Those trivial quarrels and conflicts between father and mother are still annoying, but they are not irreconcilable conflicts. It seems that everything can find a solution, and life is advancing amidst the little bumps.

Because the town is too small, so within a few streets are my neighbors, even though every face in the town is so familiar, the faces around me always have some smiles indifferently, in the process of growing up, Everything can be mastered by oneself, without any strangeness, without any stimulation, without any challenge. It seems that there is an illusion that the whole world is in the palm of your hand, and you can control the whole world with just a light grip.

From family relationship to friendship to human relationship in life, everything is so stable. The vigorous stories on TV and movies seem to be full of blood and chaos, either like the characters in novels without any life, or It's like an interesting talk in another parallel space, it just becomes a swap and conversation material in life, but it will never happen in your own life.

Since everyone in the town is so familiar, maybe in the tenth grade, you will meet someone you like, a childhood sweetheart, or fall in love at first sight, and then invite the other person to attend the graduation prom in the twelfth grade, golden boy and jade girl His story has become a model envied by everyone in the school. When he finds a job after graduation, he may only be a blue-collar worker, or he may become a white-collar accountant or editor, but it is enough to support himself and make his own The other half stays comfortably by your side.

One day, a new life will come to your life and start a new chapter of your life. Add new troubles, but also add new happiness, everything is brand new, calm, step by step, but happy.

Living like this...is really perfect.

Someone once joked that the farthest distance in the world is the entrance of the highway in a small town, and the most delicious food in the world is the breakfast of the day. In fact, this is a derogatory sentence, because people who have really seen how big the world is will know that it is impossible to measure the world with two feet, and the whole world is not only the scene in the town, but also the world. There are countless different landscapes, disasters, famines, wars, freedom, parties, and carnivals... The world is not just the entrance of the highway in the town, nor is it just your breakfast every day.

In short, a frog in a well.

But when this joke is placed in the small town of Seaside, or in Xanadu, it becomes a compliment. Because contentment is always happy, it is precisely because you don't know how big the world is that you will not be greedy, and you will not be greedy. Many times, it is precisely the endless desire that destroys life. see.

The same can be said for all the happiness that comes so easily in childhood: watching an hour of cartoons after hard study, eating a lollipop after eating a vegetable you hate, and being able to Chasing wildly in the sand with your friends, cheering and celebrating after winning a game, and looking at the upper of your shoes over and over again after getting a new pair of shoes...

Once upon a time, a piece of clothing, a pair of shoes, a bag of potato chips, a cup of Coke, and a chicken leg could bring countless happiness; but at a certain moment, after having a stable job, I fantasized about a single apartment; After a whole house, I thought about a villa; after I bought my first van, I started thinking about the possibility of a sports car... Desire. Desire is an abyss that can never be filled, driving people to move forward, forward, and forward, and happiness and happiness become harder and harder.

Living in Seaside is like this. Not only is the basic food and clothing guaranteed, but there is no problem with the basic living security, not to mention the happy family. It seems that everything has been satisfied. It is more than enough than the top and more than the bottom. To be more accurate, this is a life above the average.

This seems to be a dream life.

Except for one percent of the richest people in the world, in fact, most people have been pursuing this kind of life for a lifetime, which is stable, calm and calm. As long as I think that I can have such a life, I feel that my pace is brisk.

But why is Truman still not satisfied?

What is certain is that it is not because of the house, not because of the clothes, not because of the luxury car... More precisely, not because of material things. Because since childhood, these things have never appeared in Truman's world. He knows how to enjoy life, but he will not lose his rhythm in pursuit of material things.

So is it because of love or family affection?

Truman's father died when he was sailing in the sea when he was a child-this made him afraid of the sea, and he didn't even feel close to the water. However, growing up in a single-parent family did not bring any regrets to Truman. His mother's care It is enough to make up for the pain of losing his father, and his father's tall and brave image has become his inner hero.

It's also not love, because he has a wife who loves him deeply. Meryl is the perfect lover that everyone dreams of. She is gentle, considerate, considerate, kind and polite. Sparks made Truman fall in love at first sight and truly feel the happiness and beauty of falling in love. The life after marriage is even more romantic in the tranquility, which makes people unable to ask for more.

It's not that Truman is dissatisfied, on the contrary, he couldn't be more satisfied with his life, and feels that he is the luckiest man in the world. Even if he only lives in the small town of Seaside, he feels that he owns the whole world. He has always been a contented man, so he has no complaints about life, and faces every sunrise with a smile. His positive and optimistic spirit infects everyone around him, as if he is a positive energy factor. Quietly changing everyone around me.

But... In the dead of night, Truman always felt that there was a negative emotion bothering him, and even he himself couldn't figure out the reason.

So Truman wanted to go out for a walk, he wanted to go to Fiji - because his first love Sylvia left Seaside, Sylvia's father told Truman that they were going to Fiji. Since then, Fiji has had an inexplicable attraction to Truman - he didn't tell anyone about this reason, but just secretly hid it in his heart, because Truman knew he couldn't go, because Fiji was an island and was An island surrounded by the sea, and he has a phobia of the sea, so this is destined to be just an idea.

But Truman didn't expect that Meryl was unwilling or even opposed, which made Truman feel a little strange. At first Truman just wanted to go out, but then more and more strange things happened in his life, everything he was familiar with was breaking the pattern, he noticed that everyone around him seemed to be watching him, he noticed that every One day, everyone around him seemed to be centered around him, and he noticed that there seemed to be someone watching him in a dark corner...

Gradually, Truman wanted to leave this living environment more and more, to see a completely different new world, to see the world beyond Seaside, so Fiji became a dream in Truman's heart , a dream that is out of reach but always wants to chase.

Then, unexpectedly, his "killed" father reappeared, which broke all the balance in Truman's life. This made Truman truly realize for the first time that the inner dream did not appear because of his dissatisfaction, but because of the rules and framework that bound him. He is eager to get out of the shackles, and he is even more eager to embrace freedom.

Freedom, a simple but difficult dream, a great dream.