Zhang Defen said in the book “Meet the unknown self” : “Dear, there is no one else outside, only yourself”, each of us is pursuing the life of others, are envious of others’ bright, eyes are looking at others, but lost their own.
In fact, life is not in the distant side of the mountain, but in our side. The more I grow up, the more I know that life is for myself, not for others.
The Devil Wears Prada, starring Anne Hathaway, is a drama about the trade-off and struggle between pursuing dreams and returning to self.
Growth means change
Fresh out of high school, Andrea, played by Anne Hathaway, has an excellent resume and dreams of becoming an editor at a New York magazine. Hired to a fashion clothing company, Miranda’s assistant, but Miranda is known as the devil of the industry.
If you work for Miranda for a year, you can be an editor.
Andrea arrives at Miranda’s company and is reluctant to change herself. Walking in the forefront of the fashion company, every employee is dressed dressy, brand-name wrapped body, but Andrea does not accept change, still wearing their favorite clothes, shoes, still eat favorite sweets, regardless of body fat.
Her reminder to colleagues, an attitude: “It’s none of my business!”
She thinks that as long as she does her job to the best of her ability, everything will be OK.
But reality hit her hard in the face.
Miranda is on a business trip abroad, meets the performance of her twin daughters, must return home immediately, but meets the storm, the flight is delayed, and Andrea uses all relations still fruitless.
When Miranda returned home, she scolded Andrea and was not satisfied with what Andrea had done.
Aggrieved Andrea went to her colleague to complain, she said: “Do things for Miranda, do it right, not even a word of thank you, do it wrong, become a witch.”
I thought my colleagues would understand her, comfort her, even sympathize with her. But my colleague said, “After you leave, there will be someone who replaces you in 5 minutes!” The job is not to complain, but to learn to change, to learn to be strong.”
At that moment, Andrea felt overwhelmed and asked the designer to help her create the image. Sure enough, her new colleagues cast surprise and appreciation eyes.
Andrea has three hours to find the unpublished copies of Harry Potter for the twins, and if she can’t, Miranda tells Andrea to leave.
Miranda thought she was going to say goodbye to the job, but she tried her best to find the book, photocopied two copies, made a cover, and sent it to the twins, and finally saw Miranda smiling with appreciation.
Live your life on your own terms
Coco Chanel once said that a girl should have two things: who she is and what she wants to be.
Under Miranda’s intense work, Andrea and her boyfriend go further and further until they break up.
Her companions, one by one away. Probably because Andrea was so busy with her work that she neglected them.
In the eyes of partners and boyfriends, Andrea has changed, changed vanity, changed the whole body is a brand name, changed is no longer the original she.
There is such a passage in “Live your life according to your own will” : “What you want, it forces you to confirm yourself first, you can be wronged, you can not accept, but the world has always been like this.”
At first, Andrea resisted all the fashions of the company, feeling that she had nothing to do with herself, but as she worked deeper and deeper, she was more and more changed.
The intense work, both responsible for Miranda’s daily life, but also responsible for work priorities, as an assistant and a nanny, she grew up day by day.
Finally in Milan, at Miranda’s side.
When she accidentally learned that Miranda was replaced by someone else, she told Miranda at the first time, but Miranda already knew that in order to keep her position, she had sacrificed her colleagues who had worked with her for many years.
At that moment, Andrea can not accept all this, such as the thunderbolt news, let her see through Miranda’s practice.
As Miranda is escorted up the steps, Andrea turns to walk away. Miranda calls, but she doesn’t answer and throws her phone into the sink next to her.
At this moment, Andrea returns to her original self, and she is no longer entangled in the life she does not like.
“Even though it’s a job that all girls go crazy for, even though everyone’s dream is to have this life.”
However, Andrea decisively gave up, in fact, is to go to their own, is reconciled with their own.
The simplest and most difficult thing in Life says, “We can waste time, but we can’t waste life.” We can waste time doing things we love, but we can’t get stuck in a lifestyle we hate.”
Andrea has grown up around Miranda and has become more aware of what she wants.
Perhaps each of us has to pay some price for growth, in order to know ourselves more clearly, in order to find the most true and most comfortable way to live life, we are always looking for and trial and error, always exploring and moving forward.
As Plato wrote, “Every human being is an incomplete individual split in two, who spends his life searching for the other half and may not find it, because there are so many people split.”
The Devil Wears Prada is a highly rated film whose value is to inspire us to seek our true selves.
Andrea has found her true self, but what about us? Is reality split in two, but still can bravely find yourself?
