For a woman to make herself good, she needs to go through the origins of life.

Ron 2022-09-04 09:39:06

It's like a god helping a person grow up.
All the time, the things of childhood are hidden in my heart. A lot can't be said, and it's shameful to say it. How to open your mouth, how to tell those little things that are unknown to people you know, who would really care about those trivial things. But those little things really stay in the body, leaving traces of life inadvertently.

Taeko's fairy tale of the years, I have also had it. Taeko's fifth grade, my fourth grade. It's all such trivial things. But no kind of youth is missed, and no kind of youth can not be appreciated.
Taeko's first relationship with the outstanding baseball player in the next class, and the twists and turns of the dirty child who refused to shake hands with her, will never have such a clean relationship again. In the fourth grade, I had a crush on an excellent boy at a higher level, and a boy in his class had a crush on me. Every day there is a group of senior boys looking down from the upstairs window, I look up to search for him, but always see the boy. Do everything vicious to that boy, because he likes me, so he can be so presumptuous, until he handed me a love letter in public, and I saw that the boy I had a crush on kept looking at me. I hated that boy so much, I was so angry that I couldn't speak. Everyone was waiting to see what I would do, as if they could only flush the unopened love letter into the toilet. I will never speak to the boy I have a crush on again. Then he turned away. As long as he looked at me, he was as lost as Taeko's joy that rose in the clouds and mist that evening. I am humble because I like him.
I have been desperately following in his footsteps, and it took me 8 years to free myself from that infatuation. I am relieved, and now I am very curious about the stillborn love letter, and there will never be someone who treats me so tenderly by that little boy.
If you fell in love with someone or was loved by someone when you were young, please be gentle.

Seeing the first menstruation of the group of girls, I smiled knowingly. Young girls feel inferior and helpless, ashamed to talk to anyone, and even more afraid of being discovered by anyone, especially male classmates. When did you start getting used to your period and when did you start to puff out your chest? Time gradually took away the greenness. When Taeko talked about this experience, he said that if the green worm does not form an ugly cocoon, there will be no beautiful butterfly. And she began to keep thinking of herself in fifth grade, maybe she was facing another cocoon and turning into a butterfly.
I guess me too, hehe, chrysalis age again, so I resonate so much. I'm also cocooning, waiting to break out.

The time I was beaten by my father, the time I lost the chance to perform, the time I couldn't calculate the abstract division of fractions with a figurative apple, and the time my dirty classmates learned his tone after he left, all of them brought together a lot of growing pains. It was a trivial matter buried in Taeko's heart that had never been said. I actually burst into tears again, as if Taeko was talking about my invisible scars. She said it so she could heal, and finally turned back to Junxiong. I haven't found the person who can speak out and listen to my most attentive knots, so I'm not healed yet.

Taeko's destination fits my mood very well, and Junxiong's understanding of nature, agriculture and ordinary people is surprising and reassuring. He suits her. She is older than him, but he made her feel that he is older than her, that is a feeling of trust and support, that is the strength that makes Taeko and I want to take root.

For a woman to slowly become better herself, she needs to go through the origin of life.

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  • Hirota: Rainy days, cloudy days, sunny days... which do you like?

    Taeko: ...cloudy days.

    Hirota: Oh, then we're alike.

  • Taeko: The king of fruit is... the king of fruit is...

    [the scene flashes from 1966 to 1989]

    Taeko: ...the banana!