At the beginning of the couple's acquaintance:
The young shy maid shook the dust in the window, and the dust was raised on the young man who passed by on the bike. The rag sticking out of the window and the turban waving by the young man conveyed the heartbeat of his first love.
The couple watched movies, went to dance parties, entered marriage, bought property, and imagined paying off the loan for decades.
In the past few decades, Hitler came to power, Germany invaded the Czech Republic, Poland, the bombing of London, British Prime Minister Chamberlain, Churchill, the Conservative Party, the replacement of the Labour Party, the post-war depression...
Throughout their lives, they never experienced divorce or disputes, but they were lucky to escape the European war.
This is the little happiness of ordinary people: I look forward to having a baby; I hope my son can go to Cambridge and London; I hope my son can have a stable career in the office in the future; Buy curtains, wardrobes and sofas like swallows holding mud; Watch TV for the first time; Answering the phone once; owning his own car; showing off his son's intelligence to the neighbors, only to be disappointed by his son's choice of art and his mentally ill wife.
Decades have passed, and after his wife suffered from dementia in old age, she could not recognize her husband and became a skinny morgue. The lonely husband sleeps with the black cat, talks to himself, and habitually puts two sets of cutlery, as if his wife is still alive.
After his parents passed away, the son returned to the old house and saw that the pear pits he had planted grew into a pear tree.
Life always goes on like this. The life of ordinary people has gone through historical changes in the fragments of embracing and understanding.
However, people need this record, this kind of life picture book, which can be used to look back on the past and look back on our own life course.
Before we knew it, our tears welled up, and we saw the experiences of our parents in the nostalgic British style.
Parents all over the world hope that their children will become dragons, and they all look forward to becoming grandparents, but their children's choices often disappoint them. And we have to take it all lightly.
this is life.
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