A story about loss

Arvilla 2022-04-22 07:01:21

One: A
professor of linguistics and psychology at Columbia University, with extraordinary academic achievements, is slowly losing her memory. The career she is passionate about, her happy family, and even her once excellent self are gradually disappearing, blurring, and disappearing. The precious spiritual wealth that he worked hard for in the first half of his life was taken away by Alzheimer's little by little. Only the childhood memories of being on the beach with my sister will still flash back.
In the last scene, after listening to her daughter finish reading, she could only say with difficulty, "That was love".

Two:
A dancer who started dancing in elementary school. Besides dancing, she is also excellent in other subjects. She entered a prestigious university and graduated, but her passion for dancing made her give up her high-paying career to pursue her dream. He got a scholarship to study dance overseas, participated in numerous competitions, and completed works that attracted worldwide attention. After that, she returned to her hometown and taught dance to young people. As she got older, she was gradually unable to complete some movements, so she asked to stop and demonstrate, and explained it herself.
The body of each dancer is clumsy at the beginning, and after countless days and nights of carving, it becomes finally suitable for dancing. But soon the body will slowly return to its original clumsiness with the tiredness and aging.
She said, "Even so, I will keep jumping until I can't move."

Three:
Every time I go home and see my parents and elders, I feel that they are a little older and less original. Some are capable. Although no one in the family suffers from Alzheimer's disease, it can still be clearly felt that the elderly people's movements are becoming more and more inconvenient and their memories are beginning to be confused. The once dignified parents also became peaceful and kind. I love to communicate with them. I don't know when, I started to sit quietly at home and gradually lost contact with the outside world.
But the grandfather, who was basking in the sun on the balcony, kept telling me repeatedly how lucky he was in his life.

Four: In
one's life, nothing is brought and nothing is taken away. Still Alice, after reading it, I want to reduce some of my own delusions, because what I can have is always fleeting; I want to be nice to the people around me, because at least the moment we share now can be beautiful .

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Extended Reading
  • Blaze 2022-03-31 09:01:03

    Picture this: When you do something you regret and want to apologize to someone, it feels like they don't even remember the whole thing.

  • Lottie 2022-03-31 09:01:03

    Julianne Moore's acting is amazing, but I really don't like movies like this, that powerless sadness is sharper than a knife. The loving director in the behind-the-scenes story is a different color outside the play, paying attention to the vulnerable and helpless life groups~~~

Still Alice quotes

  • Lydia Howland: You can't use your situation to just get me to do everything you want me to do.

    Dr. Alice Howland: Why can't I?

    Lydia Howland: Because that's not fair.

    Dr. Alice Howland: I don't have to be fair. I'm your mother.

  • [last lines]

    Lydia Howland: [reading to her mother, but mostly from memory] "Night flight to San Francisco chase the moon across America. God, it's been years since I was on a plane. When we hit 35,000 feet, we'll have reached the tropopause, the great elt of calm air. As close to the ozone as I'll get, I - I dreamed we were there. The plane leapt the tropopause, the safe air, and attained the outer rim, the ozone, which was ragged and torn, patches of it threadbare as old cheesecloth, and that was... frightening."

    Lydia Howland: "But I saw something only I could see because of my astonishing ability to see such things. Souls were rising, from the earth far below, souls of the dead, of people who's perished from famine, from war, from the plague... And they floated up, like skydivers in reverse, limbs all akimbo, wheeling, spinning. And the souls of these departed joined hands, clasped ankles and formed a web, a great net of souls. And the souls were three-atom oxygen molecules of the stuff of ozone and the outer rim absorbed them, and was repaired. Because nothing is lost forever. In this world, there a kind of painful progress. A longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead. At least I think that's so."

    Lydia Howland: [moving over alongside her mother] Hey. Did you like that. What I jest read, did you like it?

    Dr. Alice Howland: [barely grunting]

    Lydia Howland: And what... What was it about?

    Dr. Alice Howland: Love. Yeah, love.

    Lydia Howland: Yeah, it was about love.