snail and snail shell

Rogelio 2022-04-21 09:02:46

The heart is often like a snail in a shell, only a slight icy drizzle can make it dare to show its head slowly, and gladly accept those silent soothing tenderness.
Then, the rigid body finally relaxed, and the freedom seemed to melt into the moist air, and finally forgot the lowliness of the self, slowly but surely leaving its own traces on the once cracked land.

If your heart is alive, everything will meet again in a patter, and if your heart is dead, why should there be a body left?

Please let us die in the seemingly impossible mutual understanding, it is a great joy.

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Extended Reading
  • Estefania 2022-03-27 09:01:12

    The Confucian system of the Three Brothers in East Asia (including the variant Confucian culture in Japan) has this stinky problem. When they are alive, they endure and endure it, but when they die, "everyone is dead" and they will tolerate it in various ways. The son who wanted to be a woman was accepted by his father, the grandmother who wanted to wear stockings wore it at the funeral, and the woman who had spoiled her whole life let her husband know her beauty after death. Thinking of the annihilation of death under the materialism education since childhood, the above things make people even more sad.

  • Jayda 2022-04-24 07:01:15

    It's a well-deserved and well-received movie. But my point is to complain for Ryoko Hirosue, she was so humble...

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.