SHARING
Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 2:39 am
My name's H.Ha, from Vietnam.
I just watched the movie recently and somehow it changed my life and my thinking.
I live in a city where you can find the hustle and bustle all the time. At one point in my life, I wanted to leave all that behind and did what I really want to do in life such as traveling far, experiencing adventures, and living alone. I was just successful in traveling to China and Malaysia for some time...
However, work, job, my old & weak parents then took me back whenever I had such a thinking. The laughter of my 2 cousins brightened me up for a while.
Now I am 28, 've got a stable but boring job. I've also got married and we are looking to having babies in the upcoming years.
Since marriage, I have been obsessed by the feeling to earn and save more and money for the future, to buy properties and afford a comfortable life. I have worked hard and lead a rather dull life.
I found myself not having freedom any longer: money, work, relationships, family... are always something I can't avoid in this society.
I turns to books and films at night to inspire me and help me to balance life.
After watching "In to the wild " 3 nights ago, I now realize that it has set me free... free from the obsession of caring about too much money and the things of civilized life.
I think now that I am - I should be happy with my present life. Money is something ephemeral and luxurious that now I no longer chase after.
Happy life - to me - is one that you are content with. But in order to be content with it, you sometimes need to do something meaningful and useful. Don't care much about richness, money or things like that.
I'll watch the film again and again to remind me of this.
I just watched the movie recently and somehow it changed my life and my thinking.
I live in a city where you can find the hustle and bustle all the time. At one point in my life, I wanted to leave all that behind and did what I really want to do in life such as traveling far, experiencing adventures, and living alone. I was just successful in traveling to China and Malaysia for some time...
However, work, job, my old & weak parents then took me back whenever I had such a thinking. The laughter of my 2 cousins brightened me up for a while.
Now I am 28, 've got a stable but boring job. I've also got married and we are looking to having babies in the upcoming years.
Since marriage, I have been obsessed by the feeling to earn and save more and money for the future, to buy properties and afford a comfortable life. I have worked hard and lead a rather dull life.
I found myself not having freedom any longer: money, work, relationships, family... are always something I can't avoid in this society.
I turns to books and films at night to inspire me and help me to balance life.
After watching "In to the wild " 3 nights ago, I now realize that it has set me free... free from the obsession of caring about too much money and the things of civilized life.
I think now that I am - I should be happy with my present life. Money is something ephemeral and luxurious that now I no longer chase after.
Happy life - to me - is one that you are content with. But in order to be content with it, you sometimes need to do something meaningful and useful. Don't care much about richness, money or things like that.
I'll watch the film again and again to remind me of this.