Although Lewis was a professor at Cambridge, his most famous work was a fairy tale "The Chronicle of Narnia". As his loyal reader, Joy's son wanted to meet Lewis very much. After communicating with Lewis, Joy Came to Cambridge from the United States with his son and visited the professor. Joey's witty, lighthearted and humorous conversation deeply moved Lewis. He agreed that Joey would take his son to their house as a guest and give him a fairy tale book for his son. Write "Magic Never Dies" on it. They went through all sorts of twists and turns in their subsequent exchanges, and finally came together and had a happy time.
But at that time Joey had reached the advanced stage of bone cancer. As she was dying, she said to Lewis: "Pain is an experience in life, and today's joy will inevitably contain tomorrow's pain." Lewis was distraught and watched as the disease took his lover's life.
After this, Lewis was depressed for a while, doubting his beliefs that he once believed in, he said, where is God? He asked all kinds of questions, but no answers. He even forgot the existence of Joey's son, when one day the two of them were sitting together in the attic of the room, they had a conversation, and they were both immersed in the great grief of losing Joey.
Lewis once told Joey that his mother died when he was 9 years old, but Joey said that when he heard footsteps in the hallway, his mother did not appear, and Lewis was silent because he could not use his Theories, beliefs in God to refute anything, she expressed the most real feelings in his heart, the reality he was unwilling to face, the reality that his mother's death would never come.
Lewis said, "Why do people love? After love is the pain of loss." It was an unbearable heartbreak, but he finally understood that it was a man's choice, to choose to bear and have the courage to accept the consequences. This is the real life, and this is the most powerful evidence that we have ever existed in this world.
The love story of Joey and Lewis was eventually written into the book "Shadowland" by her son, which originated from the "Barrens" on his mother's epitaph.
When we see the interlaced light and shadow painting in "The Golden Land", we should understand that the sun and the shadow will always coexist. They are interlaced and inseparable, just like two sides of things. When you make a choice, you must bear the consequences. , then, you have really grown up.
Although love hurts, we cannot lack the courage to love. We must ask ourselves if we have truly lived and loved!
ps There is a painting "The Land of Gold" hanging in Lewis's study. After Joey saw it, he really wanted to see it. He didn't expect the reality and the painting to be so different. The so-called "Golden Land" is actually a wetland. "Wet" is very similar to the French pronunciation of "gold".
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