"What Time Are You Over There": Love is not a matter of one person

Celine 2022-04-19 09:02:58

Why does he love her. He couldn't tell himself. He was selling watches at the bridge, and she came to buy the watch. It seemed that he had to look at the piece that he had to wear. His newly deceased father said it was unlucky and refused to sell it. Give her the phone and tell her to arrange the goods for her. She still called and said she was going to Paris the next day and wanted his piece. He sold it to her at 30% off. She went to Paris and he stayed in Taipei. It is such a story.
Maybe it was too lonely at that time, father just left, he didn't even dare to go to the bathroom at night. In the night when he was empty and bored and could not sleep, he called the telephone office to ask what time it was in Paris, and he replied that it was 7 hours late there.
This is his future life. He first got up at night and adjusted the watch he sold for 7 hours. Then he paid attention to every hour, in the store, in the movie theater, and everything that could be adjusted, and set back seven hours. Sometimes he was sneaky and was targeted by homosexuals. He found that person in the toilet, that clock, and couldn't care about it.
He only wants that time, living 7 hours back in Paris time.
So stunned was his mother. After my father's death, my mother invited a master to do things and call for spirits. I felt extremely sensitive, and I hoped that the dead would return to the door. I could cry sadly in front of the fish tank. One day, the windows of the house were covered tightly, and the electricity was cut off. The son said she was mentally ill, but she just said that your father was afraid of the light, so he didn't dare to come back.
The son Xiaokang scolded his mother for being insane, and he himself was not much better. A mother's life is waiting for the dead to return. His life is to live in Paris time - continue to adjust the time, in the store, in the cinema, and the big clock in the open air, as well as watching French films, drinking French wine, eating French barbecue, as if this can feel and she is together. Like a mother who thought she was waiting to be with her father.
They lived their lives alone for a long time. Of course I am lonely, so I am very busy in order to get rid of loneliness. My mother was always busy, cleaning up, cooking, and eating in the middle of the night. She was not thinking about eating, she was busy serving food in my father's bowl. My mother said that when he came back in the middle of the night, I would not cook for him. Living in a well-off life in Paris is just as busy. It is quite laborious to think about adjusting the time, especially when I went to adjust the big clock on the top of the building that day, I had to find such a long pole to hook it back and set it back, standing on such a high top floor, I was really afraid that his eyes would be lost. go down.
But what's the point of all this? Not alone.
Xiaokang, who was sitting in the car drinking red wine and eating barbecue, looked really satisfied, as if that was enough. When the mother is not busy, she will talk to the fish in the fish tank, but she does not think about her son. Instead they are going to conflict. She went out of power and he moved out to live in the car.
The girl who went to Paris met a Chinese woman one day, she was vomiting, the woman cared about her very much, and they lived together later. One night she didn't fall asleep and stared at her with wide eyes. After a long time, she also opened her eyes and looked at her. The two of them looked at each other like that. For a long time, they were very close, and the girl finally couldn't help kissing the woman. , the woman still dodged. They are also lonely, thinking they want to hold on tight when there is a little warmth.
On the night the girl and the woman missed, Xiaokang vented his passion on a prostitute; the mother put on a cheongsam, painted rouge powder, put a large flower on her head, masturbated in a candlelit bedroom, and her deceased husband returned in a trance. The next day, everyone was normal. Mother removed the curtains, and the house was lit again. Xiaokang returned home, took off his coat and covered his mother who was sleeping on the bed, lying quietly beside her.
When Xiaokang came back and lay beside his mother, he probably realized that the life he should live is not some time in Paris, but that he should not escape the person around him and face their common loneliness. How long had they not spoken, why did they not seek the comfort of a stranger who thought they could find it in her. Look how weak her sleeping back is, you should do something for her.
How can love be a personal thing. Xiaokang thought it was, and so did his mother. They are busy "loving" people - strangers, dead souls, but they will only become more lonely, but they forget that there are people around who need love, and there are living and responsive people around them. They use busyness to escape each other, cover up their hearts, and dare not face each other's injuries.
Always looking for love in the void, but ignoring the people around you, there are actually many well-off people like this.

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What Time Is It There? quotes

  • Shiang-chyi: Come on. Sell me this one.

    Hsiao-kang: It'd be bad luck to own my watch.

    Shiang-chyi: Why?

    Hsiao-kang: Someone in my family just died. I'm in mourning. I can't sell it to you.

  • Hsiao-kang: So we have dinner at midnight now?

    Mother: What do you know? Can't we go along with your dad's time?