Leah: Are you a mother or a lover?

Marcel 2022-01-19 08:02:23

Shelly Alia, I really don't understand, until he said to his wife: "We are like two orphans", only to realize that she is a gentle mother to him, much better than his biological mother. She is gentle and entertaining, teaches him how to love, and guides him. Shelly had never developed his own ability to find directions, he needed her guidance so much. Just as she complained about spending a lot of money for him, he coquettishly said: "Isn't it worth it to spend so much money for me?" Oh, my God! The little man should be so at ease. In fact, how could he be unreasonable? Leah is his godmother, a responsive and loving mother, wouldn't it be right for her to spend money for him? It is a pity that after he left her, he encountered the problem that he "has everything, but it is a pity that everything is meaningless", and he can only return to her embrace again. When she started to belittle his wife, he immediately asked her not to destroy her image in his mind. It was she who made him love his wife, so her image in his mind has always been so pure and noble, but now she is like A vicious woman is cursing her love rival, this is a fact that he cannot accept. Then he left without looking back, and the goddess statue in the temple collapsed. What reason is there for nostalgia anymore? But when she heard him say this, she immediately became ashamed and began to blame herself, blaming herself for being unkind, not open-minded, for not giving him good love, and for not giving him the correct guidance. She has always known that she loves him, and just wants to give him what he wants: he needs a mother, she will be a mother; he wants a lover, and she is a lover. It's a pity that he didn't know what he wanted. When he realized that she was the only woman he loved in his life, he shot himself in the head. He hated himself for leaving her without looking back that day, did he realize that he had lost his most precious thing? I often wonder why a man remembers his elder lover for a long time, and where does that "love" come from? Later, I thought, maybe like attaching to the mother and feeling the mother’s kindness, remembering the person who taught me how to love forever. The object of love will change, but the way of love is taught by that person and has become one’s own. Part of it cannot be parted. I saw a love proverb telling a girl: Don’t fall in love with a man younger than you, because he will become your "student", and the student will have one day to graduate. Sally said that men have to make mistakes to grow, because they grow in this way. Men always make mistakes. There is no man who does not make mistakes. The only difference lies in whether the object of his mistake is you.

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    Narrator: He was unable to suppress a sense that he had been able to escape from something. That he was a free man again. A feeling he eventually came to realize was entirely misguided. It was many years before he understood that both of them had been quite unjustly punished. Léa for being born so many years before him, and Chéri for having failed to grasp that Léa was the only woman he would ever be able to love. And once he was settled in his mind that this was the case, he took out his old service revolver, and put a bullet in his brain.

  • Lea de Lonval: You came back here and you found an old woman. Yes, you found an old woman. Don't cry. Why are you crying? I'm so grateful to you. Were you really in love with me? Did you really think I was such a good person? If I had been a truly good person, I'd have made a man of you instead of thinking of nothing but your pleasure and my happiness. I wouldn't have kept you all to myself. Look at me. You're right. The qualities you lack, I expect it is my fault. But 30 years of easy living does make you very vulnerable. So no, I never did talk to you about the future. Forgive me. I loved you as if we were going to die the same day. I carried you in my heart for such a long time. I forgot you were going to have to carry your own burdens. A young wife. Perhaps even a child. And so you're going to suffer. You're going to miss me. And you're going to have to try to find enough wisdom and tolerance not to cause suffering to others. The thing is, now you've had a taste of youth. It's never satisfying, but you'll always want to go back for more. You must go. I love you. But it's too late. So get dressed. And go away now.