Narrow Gate
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Alyssa and Jerome are cousins since childhood. Alyssa often read poetry and literature with Jerome on the bench behind the garden, and the two spent a long but carefree childhood in the countryside of Normandy. Love gradually took root among several boys and girls of the same age. At first, they secretly fell in love with each other, each hiding their secrets and worries, just like all teenagers who are just starting to fall in love. When they are deeply in love, their spirits blend together and they want to become a better person for each other, completely unable to tolerate any imperfection. However, cousin Alyssa saw love eventually fall into an ordinary appearance in other people's ordinary marriages, and she had doubts about love. What she wanted to pursue was eternal love, and she firmly believed that there was immortal love in the world, but the road to eternity was a narrow road, and the door to enter was a "narrow door" that "only a few people" could find. Immortality and eternal love require a lifetime of dedication and great efforts to achieve.
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Bury faith with love, or bury love with faith
"Strive to enter at the narrow gate, for the wide gate and the broad way lead to destruction, and many people enter by it, but the narrow gate and narrow way lead to eternal life, and only a few find it." What is a narrow gate? In the eyes of Christians, the narrow door is the door that can lead to eternal life and to God. However, this road is so narrow that it cannot tolerate lust, love, or even two people walking together, but only faith and virtue. Ordinary people choose to walk through the wide door without fear, and they can walk any way they want, but those who choose to walk through the narrow door need to have firm beliefs, continue to advance in the spiritual field, and reach a certain height and realm. The narrow gate, as the dividing line between heaven and the secular world, also metaphors the conflict between faith and love, because love, as a secular thing, is destined to be contrary to faith, so insisting on moving towards the narrow gate also represents the persistence and pursuit of faith, while secular love is the broad road chosen by all living beings. Alyssa is a person with a narrow-door faith. In her heart, there is a clear and clear boundary between faith and love. She is extremely loyal to her faith, but she can't help but fall in love with Jerome. This is the source of pain for her longing for love but avoiding love. What she ultimately desires is that both she and Jerome can pass through the narrow gate and reach the Kingdom of Heaven. However, to quote what Jerome said, "It is precisely in order to reunite with you that I worship the object of your worship" and "If you are not in the kingdom of heaven, then it doesn't matter if I don't go to this kingdom of heaven." Jerome's respect for God is only out of his love for Alyssa, not his belief in the narrow gate. Jerome who is so rigid in his worldly marriage and who has everything centered on her is not what Alyssa wants to see. At this time, in Alyssa's eyes, she became an obstacle for Jerome to go to the narrow gate. Her existence prevented Jerome from reaching the extremely holy kingdom of heaven. Only her self-sacrifice can achieve Jerome's perfection. The gate is so narrow that there is no room for two people to walk side by side. Alyssa also longed for the narrow door. In the conflict between love and faith, she finally chose faith. Alyssa chose to give up her love for Jerome to express her loyalty to her faith in God. Only by overcoming love can she be loyal to her beliefs. Only by overcoming love can she and Jerome cross the narrow door and reach the kingdom of heaven. As the old saying goes, everything is just for a better reunion. The story discusses the conflict between faith and love, and expresses the author's thoughts on love, life, religion, and philosophy. The story of Juliette and Edward is representative of worldly love, while the story of Jerome and Alyssa is representative of holy love. Juliette and Edward came together because of material things. They followed the secular steps, entered the palace of marriage, and assumed the responsibility of having children. Although it was contrary to holiness, there was no shortage of warm scenes; while the love between Jerome and Alyssa, although hot and brilliant, ended in tragedy. Bury love with faith, or bury faith with love, Alyssa and Juliette's different choices lead to different results. So which choice is more correct? The author does not give an answer. And I think that no matter what choice we prefer, the most important thing is whether we follow and persist in our hearts. The religious teachings in the story are like the conventional order in our lives. We cannot evaluate whether it is good or bad, but we can choose our own way of life, never give up, and live our true selves, as holy and firm as Asali, as hot and persistent as Jerome. - Nothing can separate us except death. --Death can bring people closer. --Everyone has to make great efforts to reunite. --When you are by my side, my heart is broken; but when you are far away, I cannot survive. Recorded on 2024.2.16
You have to work hard to enter the narrow gate
In a long life, how many people will choose the broad road and the broad door? How many people will choose the narrow road and the narrow gate? Alyssa understands very well that Jerome has chosen the narrow door from the beginning. This kind of love will not satisfy them. What they are pursuing, no, that is just a manifestation of trying hard to enter the narrow door.
Watch a platonic love story Each other exists in each other's fantasies, because they love the imaginary you and cannot face the real you.
How many times can you fall in love in your life?
I finished reading it sparsely, and almost didn't have the patience to read on at the end. A large diary, a girl's murmur, and a girl's love monologue. Maybe it's because the current society is impetuous enough, or maybe it's because of the rise of contemporary female consciousness? At the end, I could only try to understand Alyssa's sacrifice and infatuation based on the background of the time. (I have never left home to experience the world in my life + regard Jerome as my faith) "When the steps of two people are no longer consistent, when I love you so much that I can't bear to let you stop chasing life for me, so I choose to let go." It seems great, but in fact it is full of regrets and a sense of powerlessness against reality. I have always thought of love as possession, exclusivity, loneliness, and the entrustment of sharing life. So when I watched it at the end, I felt like I was in the cold winter in the Northeast. I opened the window from a warm room and took a deep breath of cold air, like a lump in my throat. They didn't even struggle. Well, although you have left me, the part of me that was changed by you will always be by my side in your place.
There is no doubt that I love you deeply, but I desperately find that when you are far away from me, I love you more deeply.
The more I love you, the farther away I am from you - avoidant attachment
At the same time, I think this story can also be seen as a discussion of avoidant love. In the story, the wide door is like a secular choice for all living beings, while the narrow door is like a choice that is divorced from the world and full of idealism. What Alyssa pursues is the process of constantly getting closer to happiness, rather than having happiness. When her love is elusive and out of reach, she can feel the beauty of love. But once her love is tainted with secular and formal processes such as "marriage, childbirth, and childcare," she feels that her love is no longer perfect. When she truly has love, her fantasy of love, her idealistic love, will be disillusioned. Therefore, what she pursues is only the process of seeking love, the love that leads to the narrow gate. Recorded on 2024.2.16
hopeless love
The beauty is love itself, not the specific person. So if you pursue love, you will always be on the road, and the ending will become illusory.
Fanatics and self-impression
I don't really understand it, I just think it's a love story between two mentally ill patients. Why two? You must know that mental patients are also logically self-consistent in their own spiritual world. The whole story is told from the perspective of "me", so I only think that Alyssa is psychopathic and takes pleasure in cutting off her spiritual world in the name of pursuing faith. The protagonist also shows extreme paranoia, brainwashing his self-awareness into pursuing spiritual idols for love. Both protagonists show extreme spiritual attributes in the name of love. This book is actually quite interesting.
The pure love version of the romance novel has too many unexplained love words, and one is surprised and doubts "she doesn't love me anymore!" Or "he doesn't understand me!" Because of every word or phrase. There are too many psychological activities and lack of storytelling. I personally think that it is difficult for modern young people to understand this kind of "pretentious" love.
respect but don't understand
The whole article talks about the love between the male and female protagonists for each other, but neither party is willing to pay for "happiness". The two of them simply avoid the problem. Isn't this purely self-motivated? Their love is so superficial, just like the psychological activities written when hormones are high. 😑
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Bury faith with love, or bury love with faith
"Strive to enter at the narrow gate, for the wide gate and the broad way lead to destruction, and many people enter by it, but the narrow gate and narrow way lead to eternal life, and only a few find it." What is a narrow gate? In the eyes of Christians, the narrow door is the door that can lead to eternal life and to God. However, this road is so narrow that it cannot tolerate lust, love, or even two people walking together, but only faith and virtue. Ordinary people choose to walk through the wide door without fear, and they can walk any way they want, but those who choose to walk through the narrow door need to have firm beliefs, continue to advance in the spiritual field, and reach a certain height and realm. The narrow gate, as the dividing line between heaven and the secular world, also metaphors the conflict between faith and love, because love, as a secular thing, is destined to be contrary to faith, so insisting on moving towards the narrow gate also represents the persistence and pursuit of faith, while secular love is the broad road chosen by all living beings. Alyssa is a person with a narrow-door faith. In her heart, there is a clear and clear boundary between faith and love. She is extremely loyal to her faith, but she can't help but fall in love with Jerome. This is the source of pain for her longing for love but avoiding love. What she ultimately desires is that both she and Jerome can pass through the narrow gate and reach the Kingdom of Heaven. However, to quote what Jerome said, "It is precisely in order to reunite with you that I worship the object of your worship" and "If you are not in the kingdom of heaven, then it doesn't matter if I don't go to this kingdom of heaven." Jerome's respect for God is only out of his love for Alyssa, not his belief in the narrow gate. Jerome who is so rigid in his worldly marriage and who has everything centered on her is not what Alyssa wants to see. At this time, in Alyssa's eyes, she became an obstacle for Jerome to go to the narrow gate. Her existence prevented Jerome from reaching the extremely holy kingdom of heaven. Only her self-sacrifice can achieve Jerome's perfection. The gate is so narrow that there is no room for two people to walk side by side. Alyssa also longed for the narrow door. In the conflict between love and faith, she finally chose faith. Alyssa chose to give up her love for Jerome to express her loyalty to her faith in God. Only by overcoming love can she be loyal to her beliefs. Only by overcoming love can she and Jerome cross the narrow door and reach the kingdom of heaven. As the old saying goes, everything is just for a better reunion. The story discusses the conflict between faith and love, and expresses the author's thoughts on love, life, religion, and philosophy. The story of Juliette and Edward is representative of worldly love, while the story of Jerome and Alyssa is representative of holy love. Juliette and Edward came together because of material things. They followed the secular steps, entered the palace of marriage, and assumed the responsibility of having children. Although it was contrary to holiness, there was no shortage of warm scenes; while the love between Jerome and Alyssa, although hot and brilliant, ended in tragedy. Bury love with faith, or bury faith with love, Alyssa and Juliette's different choices lead to different results. So which choice is more correct? The author does not give an answer. And I think that no matter what choice we prefer, the most important thing is whether we follow and persist in our hearts. The religious teachings in the story are like the conventional order in our lives. We cannot evaluate whether it is good or bad, but we can choose our own way of life, never give up, and live our true selves, as holy and firm as Asali, as hot and persistent as Jerome. - Nothing can separate us except death. --Death can bring people closer. --Everyone has to make great efforts to reunite. --When you are by my side, my heart is broken; but when you are far away, I cannot survive. Recorded on 2024.2.16
You have to work hard to enter the narrow gate
In a long life, how many people will choose the broad road and the broad door? How many people will choose the narrow road and the narrow gate? Alyssa understands very well that Jerome has chosen the narrow door from the beginning. This kind of love will not satisfy them. What they are pursuing, no, that is just a manifestation of trying hard to enter the narrow door.
Watch a platonic love story Each other exists in each other's fantasies, because they love the imaginary you and cannot face the real you.
How many times can you fall in love in your life?
I finished reading it sparsely, and almost didn't have the patience to read on at the end. A large diary, a girl's murmur, and a girl's love monologue. Maybe it's because the current society is impetuous enough, or maybe it's because of the rise of contemporary female consciousness? At the end, I could only try to understand Alyssa's sacrifice and infatuation based on the background of the time. (I have never left home to experience the world in my life + regard Jerome as my faith) "When the steps of two people are no longer consistent, when I love you so much that I can't bear to let you stop chasing life for me, so I choose to let go." It seems great, but in fact it is full of regrets and a sense of powerlessness against reality. I have always thought of love as possession, exclusivity, loneliness, and the entrustment of sharing life. So when I watched it at the end, I felt like I was in the cold winter in the Northeast. I opened the window from a warm room and took a deep breath of cold air, like a lump in my throat. They didn't even struggle. Well, although you have left me, the part of me that was changed by you will always be by my side in your place.
There is no doubt that I love you deeply, but I desperately find that when you are far away from me, I love you more deeply.
The more I love you, the farther away I am from you - avoidant attachment
At the same time, I think this story can also be seen as a discussion of avoidant love. In the story, the wide door is like a secular choice for all living beings, while the narrow door is like a choice that is divorced from the world and full of idealism. What Alyssa pursues is the process of constantly getting closer to happiness, rather than having happiness. When her love is elusive and out of reach, she can feel the beauty of love. But once her love is tainted with secular and formal processes such as "marriage, childbirth, and childcare," she feels that her love is no longer perfect. When she truly has love, her fantasy of love, her idealistic love, will be disillusioned. Therefore, what she pursues is only the process of seeking love, the love that leads to the narrow gate. Recorded on 2024.2.16
hopeless love
The beauty is love itself, not the specific person. So if you pursue love, you will always be on the road, and the ending will become illusory.
Fanatics and self-impression
I don't really understand it, I just think it's a love story between two mentally ill patients. Why two? You must know that mental patients are also logically self-consistent in their own spiritual world. The whole story is told from the perspective of "me", so I only think that Alyssa is psychopathic and takes pleasure in cutting off her spiritual world in the name of pursuing faith. The protagonist also shows extreme paranoia, brainwashing his self-awareness into pursuing spiritual idols for love. Both protagonists show extreme spiritual attributes in the name of love. This book is actually quite interesting.
The pure love version of the romance novel has too many unexplained love words, and one is surprised and doubts "she doesn't love me anymore!" Or "he doesn't understand me!" Because of every word or phrase. There are too many psychological activities and lack of storytelling. I personally think that it is difficult for modern young people to understand this kind of "pretentious" love.
respect but don't understand
The whole article talks about the love between the male and female protagonists for each other, but neither party is willing to pay for "happiness". The two of them simply avoid the problem. Isn't this purely self-motivated? Their love is so superficial, just like the psychological activities written when hormones are high. 😑
