What supports a person's life never seems to be ideals and ambitions, but fragments and joyful things. ”
This is a prose essay by Ogawa Ito, which is her taste and understanding of daily life in the year after she lost her mother, some self-healing after being broken, some thoughts on fate and hope, and deep memories of her mother.
Kamakura, the sea and the mountains, winter goes to spring, and her mother teaches her.
I bought new cutlery and adjusted the position of the furniture.
I went out for a walk, passed by a flower shop and bought a bouquet of tulips.
Pray to your ancestors and ask them to take care of your mother.
She writes about carrots, turnips, and lily roots in winter vegetable soup, which glow softly, and she writes sweet and fluffy egg rolls, but no matter how much she imitates them, she can't fry them with the same taste as her mother.
She wrote on the Kamakura beach, watching the waves rolling in and coming at dusk, and seeing the sky with different colors between the sea and the mountains, until it was completely dyed a cherry pink by the setting sun.
When she wrote about driving along the national highway by the sea, she felt that her mother had also longed to spend her free time with her like this, and tears welled up in her eyes.
She writes about her first autumn in Berlin, spread out on a vast, gentle hill with an old church halfway up the hill and the evening breeze blowing softly.
She writes that the forest is full of fallen leaves, and Yurina likes to run laps under the fallen leaves, and she carries a library book with her, and sits on a bench and reads quietly...
Turning the pages one by one, I was deeply moved by those ordinary daily life, although there was sadness and heartbreak, but it contained light, I felt deep love and tenderness, and my heart became soft and stable.
It was also this book that made me accept "life has regrets". I understand that life is a journey with no end in sight, there are all kinds of sorrows, joys and changes, and we may have many regrets, but this does not affect us to continue to live seriously, love ourselves and others.
There are regrets in life, but we should still work hard to move forward.
Everyone will experience some dark and melancholy moments, we always need an opportunity to ** ourselves, this book is recommended to you.