Chapter 152 The Meaning of Everything
"No...Dad and Mom, you misunderstood..."
Fan Siwei quickly explained, "I just...have some ideas about these recently."
He didn't say that he got these ideas from reading "Flame Fist", otherwise Mom might have thrown away all the single copies of "Flame Fist" when she went into his room.
However, his words did not put Dad and Mom at ease.
"Siwei, do you want to go on a trip recently?"
Fan's father also changed his previous seriousness, smiled at Fan Siwei as gently as possible, and said, "Let's take a leave of absence from father and son, and take you to travel to relax..."
He has only one son, even if he takes a leave of absence from the company for half a month, he must ensure that Fan Siwei will not do anything stupid!
"No..."
Fan Siwei shook his head blankly, "It's not long since the school started, and there are still many classes to go to..."
"Classes are not important!"
Fan's father quickly said, "Siwei, go on a trip with Dad, you can learn anytime, but there are not many opportunities to travel."
"I'll take a leave too, let's go out and have fun as a family!"
Fan's mother also said at this time.
Just kidding, now they are afraid that something will happen to Fan Siwei.
Go to work? Is going to work more important than Fan Siwei?
Let alone asking for leave, even if it is to resign, they will not hesitate.
"But I still want to know, what is the meaning of life?"
Fan Siwei still asked, "Is it to live in response to the expectations of others?"
When Fan's father heard this, he sighed in his heart, and he also understood.
Fan Siwei's knot lies here. If it is not resolved, it will only make his knot in his heart bigger and bigger.
In the end, his heart will be completely blocked there.
"No, living is to live for the sake of living."
Fan's father said firmly, "When your father went to college, the first book I read was called "To Live"."
Fan Siwei was thoughtful. He had heard of the book "To Live", but he had never really read it.
"To Live is a very tragic story. Maybe you young people don't like to read this kind of novel now."
Fan's father said, "The protagonist Fugui was originally a rich man, but he lost all his family property because of eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, and became a tenant farmer. He was drafted into the army when he was young and worked as a handyman. After finally reaching middle age, his daughter became deaf and dumb, and his son died of excessive blood drawing, leaving him with a white-haired man to send off his young son..."
"You see, he is so miserable, because he can only watch all this happen, and there is no way to resist or change it."
"But when he was old, his wife who had supported him through thick and thin also died of illness, his daughter died of dystocia, and his son-in-law was crushed to death by a cement slab... The only grandson left was Kugen, who became his last hope, but he died of eating too much beans."
"Fugui In the end, Fugui was left with only an old cow to accompany him on the dirt road in the countryside. "
"When the sunset fell behind them, it was so pale!"
"When I finished reading this novel, I just felt so miserable, so miserable."
Fan's father said heavily, "From the prosperity and bustle at the beginning to the misery and hardship later, Fugui had nothing in the end, but he was still alive."
"Just like what you said, Siwei, this world is a huge lie."
"Everyone strives to live for the illusory happiness, looking forward to the time when happiness finally comes."
"But how many people really wait for that happiness to come?"
"When he was young, Fugui was already very happy. He was a rich young man and an unruly playboy, but from a wealthy family to a Later, he lost everything and his family members passed away one after another. For him, the happiest time was not when he was squandering his wealth. "
"When he was experiencing hardships, he believed that his wife was the best wife in the world, his children were the best children in the world, and his son-in-law, grandson, the old ox also called "Fugui", and those friends..."
"I saw this sentence in another essay "Wisteria Waterfall", and I still remember it..."
"Flowers and people will encounter various misfortunes, but the long river of life is endless."
"It is precisely because of this that choosing to live is the best. "
"Because you can feel everything in this world when you are alive, you can't feel anything when you lose your life. "
"You Thinking means you exist. "
"We don't sing about suffering. If we want to sing, we should sing about the branches and buds that grow brilliantly and bloom in the mud. We sing about the unyielding life itself!"
"Only when life itself continues can there be infinite possibilities, and you can see this colorful world!"
"So... no matter what, live on!"
"Just like a poem I like very much - you don't want to plant flowers, you say, I don't want to see it wither a little bit. Yes, in order to avoid the end, you avoid all starts."
"Yes, you can't be unwilling to start just because you don't want to see the flowers wither...same! You can't refuse to start everything just because life is too painful."
Fan's father's words made Fan Siwei fall into deep thought.
He suddenly realized, isn't Agni the same?
Even if you are in great pain, you have to live.
You have lost the people you love and everything you cherish, and you are wrapped in the flames that never go out, and you always endure the pain of the burning flames.
You have to...live on.
It's not just for revenge.
So this is the reason why Mr. Aoyama, the manga artist of "Flame Fist", always wanted Agni to live...
Because only if Agni lives, he will continue to exist in this world.
Only then can he save people, and the destruction of Besim Drucker will happen.
Only then can he meet Ligada and others, and all the things that happened later will happen.
If Agni died at the beginning, all these stories would not happen.
Although the pain is avoided, it will also be meaningless.
"I...seem to understand..."
Fan Siwei's eyes showed some understanding, "Living...itself is the meaning of everything!"
"Even if living is a lie or it will be painful, there is absolutely nothing wrong with living!"
"So even if the road ahead of life is full of thorns and it makes people suffer, we must continue to live!"
When Fan's father saw Fan Siwei's appearance, he immediately showed a relieved smile.
It seems...Fan Siwei finally figured it out.
...
After dinner, Fan Siwei returned to his room and continued to pick up the "Flame Fist" single volume that he had not finished reading just now.
He no longer has the heavy heart he had just now.
He wants to continue reading, even if the next story of "Flame Fist" is still so sad!
Fan Siwei continued to turn to the place where he just finished reading.
Personally, I think it is a bit like Mr. Yu Hua's "To Live"... It's just my personal opinion 0.0