Groundhog Day: If you were stuck on the same day

If you are trapped in a certain day, it is like an endless loop, ending each day and waking up on the same day the next day, you know exactly what is going to happen, you know what is going to happen in the next second. . Maybe it was interesting at first, feeling like I had become an omnipotent God, as if I had the magic to predict the future, but was that really the future? I was still trapped in the past. Repetition day after day is actually hell. You live the same days over and over again. Even if you commit suicide, you cannot get relief, because when you open your eyes the next day, it is the same alarm clock sound, the same broadcast content, and the same encounter. The same thing happens to people.

Phil, the weather broadcaster, is a cynical person. He is very disdainful of most things and people. What he thinks and says is full of irony. Even his work is indifferent. After finishing the work, it feels like being a monk for a day and hitting the clock for a day, just muddling along. I feel like I used to be very similar to him. I knew that my level was average, but I was too lazy to change, so I just followed the crowd, but I thought I was smarter than everyone else, and felt that everyone else was not smart enough.

Every February 2nd is Groundhog Day in the border town of Punxsutawney. On this day, locals come to predict the coming of spring. Every year Phil goes to the small town to report, and it just so happens that the weather-predicting groundhog is also named Phil. Phil himself is dismissive of this custom. In his opinion, it is a joke, but does this coincidence also mean that Phil himself is also a joke.

After finishing the scribbling report, I encountered a snowstorm on the way back, which delayed my return trip. When Phil woke up the next day, he unexpectedly found that time was still stuck on the same day. After going downstairs, the nanny said the same thing. After going out, I still met the same insurance salesman. I stepped into the same puddle when I passed by the road. There was the beggar again at the corner. The mayor still said the same opening words in the square. The result of the Rat's prediction was exactly the same as the day before.

When he found that he was trapped on the same day, no matter what he did today, when he woke up the next day, what happened the day before could be written off, he was surprised at first. This means that you can do all the things you didn't dare to do before. So he violated traffic regulations to his heart's content, drove all his cars onto the railway tracks, and robbed the bank's cash transport truck. He used the money to buy a luxury car, and then naturally he met countless beauties.

I think this kind of life is probably what many people dream of. There is no need to work, there is endless money to spend, you can do whatever you want, and there is no shortage of charming people of the opposite sex around you. The price of these seemingly dazzling lives that many people envy is that you can never have them forever. When you wake up the next day, everything will be in vain.

No matter how splendid everything looks on the outside, in the end it is just a dream, disappearing into nothing. All the prosperity will disappear, and you will get tired of it after a long time. Phil also gradually felt tired and bored until he became disgusted and longed to break out of this cycle, even through the most extreme means. Whether you jump off a building or drive off a cliff, you always find yourself lying on that bed intact the next day. Death cannot free him.

Isn’t this exactly hell? Isn’t hell not even death? Does this mean that our repeated days are actually living in a soulless hell, with no thoughts and no happiness? In other words, living is just living, like a walking corpse, without any meaning.

Phil gradually accepted this setting, because there was no way to change it. At this time he discovered that he fell in love with his female colleague, reporter Rita. He tried many ways, but he couldn't get Rita's favor. Frustrated, he could only accept this helplessness.

Phil's past interactions with other members of the opposite sex were nothing more than one-night stands. He could always easily win the favor of girls with his money or sweet words. But the next day these girls will leave him again. What can be easily obtained can also be easily left, and those who can always be around always have troubles.

Phil began to try to make some changes, passing by the corner and giving all his money to beggars, hugging insurance salesmen, taking homeless people to have their last meal, and catching children who fell from trees. , saved someone who almost choked to death while eating in a restaurant, reported on Groundhog Day seriously, and played the piano perfectly at the banquet. All these unexpected actions simply amazed the heroine. This time, Rita was completely impressed.

After winning the heart of the heroine, Phil finally emerged from the cycle and came to a new day. This also means a new beginning in his life.

Don’t turn a blind eye to the things and people around you. Making a little change will make a big difference. Learn to care about the world, care about the people around you, live mindfully, and slowly let go of your arrogance and cynicism. Then you can live a different and wonderful life even if you are trapped in the same day. To obtain love, instead of blindly trying to please, it is better to find ways to improve yourself. What can really attract people is the charm radiating from the inside out. True love is also the driving force that can inspire us to become a better version of ourselves.