Away We Go, HOME!

Alysa 2021-12-24 08:02:07

One sunny morning, life will always come to make jokes with you, sometimes even a little bit vulgar and boring, when everything is not ready at the time, but what can be prepared? A little life will come. Among you, you don't know what that means, you are full of ideals and imaginations about the future, but you are at a loss. Facing the dilapidated house and the paper window, you were shocked to realize that you were already in your thirties, but life stagnated like an anchor, and life seemed to have never begun. Same. You think, it's time to need a comfortable nest, for your new life, for your future. So you made up your mind to go on the road to find that real home.

However, life will always enjoy this, continue to joke with you, continue to be vulgar and boring, and then add a little black humor and realistic cruelty. You think that you can find a safe nest when you return to your parents' home. However, for the sake of their dreams, they suddenly move to a place three thousand miles away. Maybe sometimes achieving a dream is more important than anything else, especially that is your own dream. The city is constantly circulating, the weather is a bit exaggerated, the sun outside the glass curtain wall is shining, there are planes jumping in the blue sky, and you stand on the handrail and let the handrail transport you forward. The road ahead seems to be out of focus, even though your itinerary is posted in the coat early. But you still have to bite the bullet and hit the road, you know, what else can you do? From Phoenix to Tucson, from Wisconsin to Montreal to Miami, and then back to the abandoned home there. Station after station, city after city, wandering from one home to another, constantly traveling and exploring, you finally discovered that in the process of searching together, in fact, you already have that beautiful and unbreakable thing, and It is not made of cement concrete planks and furniture.

When you are depressed and keep asking him: "Are we fuck-ups?", he will still hold you tightly and say with certainty: "We are not!" When you face the future, you feel at a loss When asked: "What should we do?", he would still say stupidly: "Then we will fight hard together!" When the real society family and marriage values ​​are absolutely correct, you can hardly breathe. , You will still stand on the same front with her to resist to the end; in the eyes of others, you are weird or even losers, but what does it matter, because no one else will cherish each other and embrace each other like you do; when you When you feel lost and insecure, what you actually need is not a promise. You all know that promises are not important. The important thing is that you both care about each other and that home. She will promise you that you will never leave you; he will promise you when a child feels scared, we will listen to her and protect her earnestly; she will promise you even if you die so rudely, she will still tell the child Father fought heroically to save 850 orphans in Chechnya and sacrificed heroically with the enemy; when you slowly try to let go of the pain and shadow of your childhood and look at the still beautiful Mississippi River with tears on your face, you have him, he will Sitting with you silently, holding your hand tightly... It's

another sunny morning, maybe life will still joke with you, or it's fucking vulgar and boring with a little black humor and cruelty, but neither It is important, you will face it with a smile, you are so lucky, because you have found your comfort zone.

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  • Jaclyn 2022-03-25 09:01:12

    Yes, either the comedy part is abrupt or the warmth part is abrupt

  • Trevor 2022-03-26 09:01:08

    The warmth is so good~ Sam Mendes finally abandoned the heavy film = =

Away We Go quotes

  • Verona De Tessant: Burt, are we fuck-ups?

    Burt Farlander: No! What do you mean?

    Verona De Tessant: I mean, we're 34...

    Burt Farlander: I'm 33.

    Verona De Tessant: ...and we don't even have this basic stuff figured out.

    Burt Farlander: Basic, like how?

    Verona De Tessant: Basic, like how to live.

    Burt Farlander: We're not fuck-ups.

    Verona De Tessant: We have a cardboard window.

    Burt Farlander: [Looks at window] We're not fuck-ups.

    Verona De Tessant: [Whispers] I think we might be fuck-ups.

    Burt Farlander: [Whispers back] We're not fuck-ups.

  • Burt Farlander: Do you promise to let our daughter be fat or skinny or any weight at all? Because we want her to be happy, no matter what. Being obsessed with weight is just too cliché for our daughter.

    Verona De Tessant: Yes, I do. Do you promise, when she talks, you'll listen? Like, really listen, especially when she's scared? And that her fights will be your fights?

    Burt Farlander: I do. And do you promise that if I die some embarrassing and boring death that you're gonna tell our daughter that her father was killed by Russian soldiers in this intense hand-to-hand combat in an attempt to save the lives of 850 Chechnyan orphans?

    Verona De Tessant: I do. Chechnyan orphans. I do. I do.