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What is happiness? What is love? What is success? What do you live for? Who are you? What should you be like? You can provide various answers to these questions. But the simplest way to deal with them is to figure out what you need and what you want.

“I am an adult. I know what I want.” For an adult, what he wants usually equals what he needs. As a man grows up, he gradually get rid of his naivety, fantasies, but becomes more and more sensible and practical. He is down-to-earth. However, a kid knows little of himself, and less of the world. Sensibility but not sense dominates him. He wanders aimlessly in his world, just like a cloud up in the air.

Ryan is the kid, while Alex is the adult. Ryan led a life of hedonism. The only aim of his life was 10.000.000 miles, a symbol of success. Unexpectedly, the balance of his life was broken after a hearty conversation with his brother-in-law. When his brother-in-law began to doubt the meaning of marriage, of life, Ryan began to examine his own life. It suddenly occurred to him that not all the things could be explained as meaningful. You should not give up life simply because it tortures you. Nor should you refuse marriage because it fetters you. Life is hard; life is troublesome. But the essence of life is to experience, that is to live with whatever God gives you.

Ryan & Alex

What Ryan wanted is not what he needed. What he really needed was Alex, and a warm and cozy home. Thus, an instinct pulled him from the air to the earth. The instinct is called love, which always exists inside one’s heart but becomes dull and numb as time goes by. But the fact only proved his naivety. The instinct dropped to impetus.

The impetus of brother-in-law is the freedom in the air, and it in turn took him back to the earth. On the contrary, Ryan’s impetus is the true love on the earth and it sent him back to the air. Indeed, happiness is inertial, springing from repetition.
The ending reminded me of the Hurt Locker. Just like James, Ryan restarted his trip on plane without knowing the deadline. His happiness is only available in one place-up in the air.