I had the opportunity to read this book because Mr. Yu expressed some thoughts on reading this novel at the reading meeting. I thought it was very interesting, so I asked Teacher Yu to borrow it from Chongqing Library. I read this book very carefully, because I tossed and turned to get it.
We often have the idea that "if I could do it all over again, I would never …", but we all know that life is a one-way street, and we can only go straight ahead, and we can't look back from birth to leaving this world. But in Man is Forty-Three, the author arranges for the hero Jeff to die at the age of forty-three, and then he is reborn at the age of 18. Since then, he has been playing a tape, repeating it from 18 to 43. No matter how hard he tried to change his life track after his rebirth, he always died at the age of 43. In this way, he died at the age of 43, and was reborn after the age of 18 and before the age of 43.
Jeff's first life was not a success. In middle age, his career didn't even improve. He is unable to let his wife live a higher quality of life, and his husband and wife are indifferent. You can't even have children. He died of fatigue. After his rebirth, he used the prophet of future information to easily win huge wealth through gambling activities such as gambling on football and horses, and gained huge returns by investing in stocks through investment companies, thus establishing his own financial empire and making his wife live a rich life. Although the relationship between husband and wife is still not harmonious, they have a lovely daughter Gretchen, which brings him happiness. Compared with his first life, it was a basically satisfactory life, but at the age of 43, no matter what preparations he made, he still died of a heart attack. When he was reborn and returned to the age of 18, he knew that everything he had achieved had been erased, and neither wealth nor daughter existed in the reborn world. The third Jeff's life is completely different from the second rebirth. He earned only enough money to live, married his first love and read many books that he always wanted to read but didn't. His life is calm, orderly and normal. Jeff is very satisfied and calm. His long and chaotic life can be described as simple and plain for the first time. However, at the age of 43, even though he was lying in bed early and made all the preparations, he died of a heart attack again, and then he was born again at the age of 18. In this life, Jeff doesn't care about anything He has done everything he can and got everything a man wants, but in the end he is empty, helpless and empty-handed, and back to the beginning. From then on, he lived a degenerate life, taking drugs and being dissolute, but he soon got tired of this life, so he lived in seclusion completely and accidentally found that there were other people who were reincarnated. His life was full of ups and downs, but he died at the age of 43 anyway. Jeff was reborn at the age of 18 and died at the age of 43. Whether he wants to save the world or miss a person, he will be empty in the end. Although every life lived a completely different life and experienced nine completely different lives, Jeff woke up in his dead office for the first time, died and woke up a few minutes later, and finally found that he was not dead or reborn. Finally, Jeff understood that he used to think that always paying attention to the future choice was a kind of enjoyment, but it was actually an illusion. Everything is different now. This is not "next time", and there will be no next time, only this time. For this limited life, Jeff doesn't know where it will go and what the final result will be. He won't waste a moment in his life, nor will he take everything for granted. The only important thing now is that the rest of the time will be his life, and he will live according to his own choice and in the best way for him. Work, friendship and women are just parts of his life. Although they are important, they can't define and control his life. He is the master of his own life, and only he. Jeff knows that he has infinite possibilities.
We often think that life can always make choices, that we have so much time and always say "next time … next time", but in fact, we can only control the future. Just like Jeff's rebirth, no matter how many choices there are, it will always be empty. For the past, even if there are no more assumptions, it is meaningless. In fact, life can't be repeated! Only the future, for us, the future is infinite! At this moment, I am resurrected with blood, because I am still alive, and I am swallowed up by the infinite possible future!