It's nice to have an optimistic and hard-working dad in the family. He will encourage you, answer your questions, support you, take you to play, and accompany you to grow. When my mother and my father met, my father was very honest. I couldn't go to a concert hall for 5 shillings, so I went to a church for 1 shilling. It was a really romantic meeting. Save money together to buy a house, my mother takes care of the house, my father works hard, and little by little, the house is added from the empty to a warm and delicate place, with material security, as well as flowers and cats to nourish the spirit. Really good life. (It was the first time I knew about the window tax haha) Although neither of them received any education, my father loved to read newspapers and cared about political affairs, while my mother began to only care about the trivialities of the family. But both of them have good personalities. Even if they can't talk for a while, they still have a very warm atmosphere. Gradually, my mother also learned to express her political opinions. It's just that two people who have political differences will still bicker. Unfortunately war came, luckily Dad didn't lose his job, he didn't get drafted, he just worked as a fireman. (Weaving gives people a sense of security!) But firefighters also face danger in the war, and the optimistic and cheerful dad cried for the first time because of the people who died in the war. After the war, my father built a bomb shelter, and they sent away their 5-year-old son, and they hid under the iron table in the living room to sleep. At night, there was a blackout, and large balloons blocked the plane, but the artillery fire still lit up the sky. The will of a leader can use war to destroy countless ordinary small homes.
My son was fortunate to grow up with his aunt in the countryside, and his father encouraged and protected his son. The mother is in the love of the child, and still some do not like to let the child's life live so rough. Now I can feel some of those feelings too.
The war was finally over, the son went to grammar school according to his mother's wishes, the uneducated parents didn't know what a university was, they only knew Cambridge and Oxford, and they felt their son was worthy. But the son transferred to the art university. Sure enough, no matter where he is, parents hope that the child will be sitting in the office, civil servants and teachers are still the best solution.
When the son brought his girlfriend home for the first time, the mother wanted the child to comb his long messy hair, but the son refused the mother's comb in order to save face in front of his girlfriend, and the mother became angry. Maybe it's because he feels that the children who have worked so hard to raise have their own small family, so they are not so close. A bit of mixed emotions.
After the son got married, the mother fell ill and died soon after. Dad is lonely, always alone, with the kitten as his wife. Soon, my father was admitted to the hospital with angina and died the same year as my mother.
After getting married, it seems that the aging of the parents activates the accelerator. The life of this couple may be an ordinary life or an extraordinary life. They have experienced the new thing "electricity" from scratch, experienced war and peace, and have gone through such a life, which is pretty good.
It turns out that living an ordinary and warm life is also very remarkable. So, don't be so demanding of yourself, as long as you are willing to do it, if you want to do it, do your best, but don't ask about your future when you do good deeds.
I hope that I can also live my life step by step, everything is difficult at the beginning. Life in my twenties is just the beginning.
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