Hole

Suzanne 2022-04-19 09:02:22

When my mother left, I was more than a month away from my 18th birthday.

I remember a very hot summer, the heat and the pain were like a catastrophe and I couldn't breathe.
I stayed in the ward for a month and stayed up all night, but I fell asleep unexpectedly that night...
I woke up intermittently several times in the middle, and I woke up at 6 in the morning. I told my mother to go ahead with the blood test today, even though the veins in the back of her hand were fragile and all that was done was palliative care. The mother nodded slightly. The nurse was called, and he was about to puncture the needle, but his heartbeat, contrary to the weather outside the window, suddenly slowed down until it stopped. I think this day has finally come...

The rescue after that has become very cruel. My father was at home the day before, and in the morning, he received the news and rushed to
the empty ward. I alone recruited doctors and nurses for first aid.
I wanted to stop this. The futility of my mother when I saw the brown blood coming out of my nostrils, ears, and mouth
when I saw my mother taking off her oxygen mask , I told myself that rescuing was probably the worst decision I ever made. This picture will forever freeze in my mind, for a school start. For a student who is only in the third year of high school, it is too cruel and the final cleaning work is complicated. Comb my mother's hair with a comb. I can't hold back the tears that fall on her body. If the older generation said this, she would be very uncomfortable when she walked away, so she held it quietly. I took my mother's right hand and warmed her gradually cold hand with my own temperature. Even after 6 years, I still feel that this is a dream, a dream that I can never wake up from . Express this kind of feeling, because I grew up and the dream should wake up
























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  • Anthony 2021-12-25 08:01:15

    Death is a matter for the living

  • Moises 2022-03-28 09:01:06

    In the early stage, it was very humorous, I covered my mouth and laughed; in the later stage, it was very warm, and I cried into tears. There are four details that impressed me deeply: the first is the first time Kobayashi Dawu went to the bathhouse after completing the burial ceremony, and rubbed the soap so hard that the cigarette slipped out of his hand; It's not a farewell, but there will be a period when we meet in another world; the third is the moment when the fire of the incinerator ignited when bidding farewell to grandma in the bathhouse; the fourth is when Kobayashi Dawu entered the funeral of his father, the stone slipped from his father's hand. In an instant. The stone letter that my father held before his death was longing, guilt, and love; Dawu pressed it on Meixiang's belly, it was reconciliation, relief, inheritance, and love.

Departures quotes

  • Daigo Kobayashi: There are many kinds of coffins.

    Yuriko Kamimura: 50000, 100000, 300000 yen.

    Daigo Kobayashi: They differ by that much?

    Yuriko Kamimura: The left one is plywood, the next one has metal fittings and carvings on both sides. And the most expensive one is solid cypress wood.

    Daigo Kobayashi: Oh, the difference is in material and decoration.

    Yuriko Kamimura: Yes, they all burn the same way.

    Daigo Kobayashi: Same ashes.

    Yuriko Kamimura: The last shopping of your life is done by others.

    Daigo Kobayashi: Kind of ironic.

  • Shokichi Hirata: Salmon?

    Daigo Kobayashi: [Watching the river] Ah, yes. They're right by the rocks... over there.

    Shokichi Hirata: [to the salmons swimming against the stream] Oh! Go for it!

    Daigo Kobayashi: It's kind of sad... to climb only to die. Why work so hard if you're going to die.

    Shokichi Hirata: I'm sure they want to go back... to their birthplace.