Everything we know but don't know

Scot 2022-09-04 17:56:57

The space we live in is like this, we have to work, eat, and sleep. The heavy body walks on the ground, unable to fly or jump.

Human life is such a slow and fast march, first to work, then to have food to eat, and a place to sleep. Men have to go out to work every day, women have to cook, take care of children, prepare lunch, wash vegetables, wash radishes, wash here and there silently by the sink, then prepare dinner, wash vegetables, cut vegetables, eat, and then sleep. Women sometimes look at the night sky in the dark, but they don't dare to take too long. They have to get up early tomorrow to prepare breakfast. If you walk like this, you will come to death.

The house is alive, the place we call home needs shelter from the wind and rain, and different houses in the world have the same name: home. We all live in a house, so a house cannot be sloppy, a house is like its owner with different personalities, we all live in a house when we are alive, and where we go after death is always a mystery.

No matter what, everyone dies in the end, doesn't it? So sooner or later is just a difference in time, but why do people in this world feel so different? Those who died early are sympathized and puzzled by others. Those who are related to the early deceased will fall into pain. They forget that they will also die in the near future.

Yumiko's husband, Ikuo, was crushed to death while walking on the rails. People say he committed suicide. Yumiko doesn't understand why he committed suicide? Obviously very happy, obviously nothing happened and everything was normal, why did you commit suicide? A few years later, Yumiko remarried. The remarried Yumiko lived by the sea and lived a very peaceful life. She had three meals a day, washing and brushing. It seems that it is delicious without too many dishes. The family sits around the small dining table and eats. After dinner, sitting under the eaves, eating watermelon and watching the sea, the son brought by Yumiko lived very well in this home. There is a young lady in this family, and the two children are like brothers and sisters.

Children who run and play are the most beautiful things in this world. The meaning of life stays in this time for a short time. Everything is growing and growing at this stage of life. The adult world is nourished and encouraged by this scene to move forward. That's what it means to have children. How sad to think that there is a force in the world that strongly distorts this growing period.

Yumiko went home to attend her younger brother's wedding. She walked in the alley that she and Yu Fu walked together, and returned to the house where they lived together. She couldn't figure out why Yu Fu committed suicide. She went to the small cafe that she had been to with Yu Fu. The cafe owner told her that that day, on the day of Yu Fu's accident, she went to his cafe, drank a cup of coffee as usual, listened to him with a smile, and paid When making money, I found that I forgot to bring my wallet and promised to pay tomorrow. The boss said that he was very surprised to hear the news the next day and couldn't believe it. This made Yumiko's troubles even more profound. Obviously everything was normal, so why did she commit suicide?

Yumiko's grandmother had Alzheimer's disease and said she wanted to go back to her hometown, but Yumiko couldn't persuade her. Grandma walked across the bridge, disappeared at the other end of the bridge, and never came back. On the day of Yufu’s accident, he came home earlier than usual. Yumiko saw him swaying back on a bicycle from the window. Yumiko was very happy and sweet. Yufu said that he was just coming back to deliver the bicycle. Hearing that it was going to rain, he brought an umbrella. After going out, Yumiko laughed and saw him down the stairs, stood at the door and watched Yu Fu, Yu Fu just kept walking out of the alley without looking back. Just like when grandma walked away without looking back.

Yumiko followed the funeral procession to the beach, looking at the burning flames and pondering, her remarried husband Minxiong drove to find her, Yumiko finally told her husband her question, why did Yufu commit suicide? Minxiong said that he once heard from his father that he would feel lonely when he went out to the sea for fishing again and again and faced the vast sea. Minxiong said this can happen to anyone.

Yumiko gradually adapts to the life of the new family. Life is like this. Before that beam of summoning light arrives, there are small surprises that we did not expect but accidentally land between the sunrise and sunset. People are working hard to learn to love each other. Everyone doesn't know who will leave early. In order to cover up their fears, they can't open their hearts to each other, but life is like this. In every day's work, meals, and sleep, we accompany each other.

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Extended Reading
  • Wellington 2022-05-11 22:25:10

    "When Dad goes out to sea, he can always see a dazzling light beckoning him. Probably everyone encounters this situation!"

  • Valentina 2022-05-11 22:28:20

    The lack of just the right narrative and the tenacity and tension hidden inside after de-dramatization, the roar of the sea can't cover up the questioning of life and death; it is Hirokazu-eda who uses the picture to give the ambiguous but possibly the closest answer to the truth.

Maborosi quotes

  • Yumiko: It's harder to say goodbye if we keep postponing it.

  • Yumiko: [Recalling her first husband's unexplained suicide] I just... I just don't understand! Why did he kill himself? Why was he walking along the tracks? It just goes around and around in my head. Why do you think he did it?

    Tamio: [after giving it some thought] The sea has the power to beguile. Back when dad was fishing, he once saw a maborosi - a strange light - far out to sea. Something in it was beckoning to him, he said... It happens to all of us.