《心灵奇旅》：人活着，一定要有人生目的吗？

亲爱的听友们元旦快乐~

抱歉这些天是我今年第一次放小长假调休，想放松一下，耽误了前些天更新。不过趁休息时间去看电影，终于在院线电影看到了一部很喜欢的电影，《心灵奇旅》，这部温暖小片很适合年末看。今天我们就来聊聊这部电影吧~

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The movie follows Joe Gardner, a middle school music teacher who has dreamed of performing jazz music onstage, and finally gets a chance at a club. However, an accident caused Joe’s soul to be separated from his body and transported to the heaven-like You Seminar.

影片讲的是一个叫Joe的初中音乐老师在好不容易拿到了能在正式的音乐场合表演爵士的机会、离自己的音乐梦想就差最后一步的时候，被一个意外带到了类似天堂的一个地方——叫You Seminar，介于生与死之间的心理中心。

Joe wants to get back to earth and returns to his life, so he teams up with another soul, named 22, who has never understood the appeal of human experience.

后来为了能回到地球，Joe和一个对人类生活一点兴趣都没有的灵魂22结伴了。最后他们意外地发现了人生中很多被大家忽略的乐趣，开始了新的生活。

在看电影的时候就想到了一本书叫《被讨厌的勇气》，里面提到的很多道理是一样的。比如电影探索的主题是：人活着，一定要有人生目的吗？

Many people are struggling to find a life purpose. We try to figure out what we’re good at, what we’re born to do, and what we hope to achieve. But, does everyone has to have a life purpose?

很多人穷尽一生都在焦虑自己的人生目的、人生意义是什么。

就像影片里有很多被困在“the zone”组的人。

So what is the zone? In positive psychology, the zone means a flow state. It is the mental state in which a person performing some activity is fully immersed in a feeling of focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity.

心理学上把“心流”口语化地叫做the zone, 形容人在很专注地投入某件事并且很享受的时候会有的一种感觉。就像一直有音乐梦的Joe在弹钢琴的时候就有这种感觉。

但电影里说，有很多人却因为过度执迷于the zone, 而成了lost soul——迷失的灵魂。

Moonwind says,

The zone is enjoyable. But when that joy becomes an obsession, one becomes disconnected from life.

Lost souls are obsessed by something that disconnects them from life.

心流区是很让人享受的，但如果那种乐趣变成了一种执迷，就会让你跟生活脱离。迷失的灵魂总是对这些让他们跟生活没有连接的事而固执。

Just like Joe, he knows very well he is obsessed with jazz music and believes that he was born to be a jazz musician. So when he finds he died before he had the chance to perform at a club, he says, “my life was meaningless. No, no, no, no. I will not accept this.”

Joe在第一次去世后回顾自己的一生，发现自己在即将上台表演前就去世了，他非常懊恼地说：“我的人生是没有意义的！我不能接受！”

Before Joe is sent to the heaven, Joe shouts, “I’m not dying today. Not when my life just started.”

他不愿意自己在那一天去世，因为觉得自己的人生自此才刚刚开始。

可是当他后来真的有机会去表演了以后，走出表演厅，却开始质疑自己：I thought I would feel different. 以为自己在好不容易达成梦想之后感觉会不一样。可达到目的后的快感消失得比自己想象中的快很多。

所以其实人生不只是一个目的地，不是到达了就结束了。

它是无数个瞬间连接在一起的旅程。

If you forget to enjoy the countless moments in your life and only focus on chasing for your goal, the path to get to your goal will become meaningless. That’s why many people are stuck in pain, maybe because they don’t know what their dreams are, or maybe because they haven’t been there yet.

如果意识不到人生重要的是当下的瞬间，就会执着于探究自己未来的目的地到底是什么。所以很多人都焦虑于自己的心流区和梦想是什么，或者因为还没有达成目的而苦恼。

就像灵魂22。她和我们很多人一样，目前不清楚自己具体想做什么，似乎人生也因此就没有了意义，总是被家人和朋友嘲笑自己一事无成。

直到后来，当她到了人间，会感动于落叶飘到自己手上的美好，为自己能自由走路而兴奋，才意识到其实自己的spark--触发激情的点，就是享受生活中的每一刻。

So just like what the book The Courage to be Disliked says, “No matter what has occurred in your life up to this point, it should have no bearing at all on how you live from now on. That you, living in the here and now, are the one who determines your own life.”

回到最开始说的《被讨厌的勇气》，这本书最后也说了，“以前发生的事都不应该对你从此刻开始该如何过生活有影响。只有活在此时此刻的你，才决定了你的人生。”所以请用心过好当下的每一天，认真做好每一件事，它总能带你到达某一个地方。而对你而言的人生意义在做好“此时此刻”的同时，也会逐渐明晰。