"Father, do you think our world is moving too fast?" asked the man with a Middle Eastern accent. His question made Father Edward pause.

Fr. Edward closed the page of One Hundred Years of Solitude, and after a moment's thought, he replied, "What do you mean?"

"All. The man's voice replied, "I mean it all." All of this, our world is on a fast track, don't you notice it, Father?"

Father Edward didn't know what the man was trying to ask, or what was going on in his heart. But Father Edward answered his question anyway: "You mean the change in our world? Yes, very quickly. From health care, to energy, to mobility. It's all changing, and these changes are changing a lot of people's lives. ”

"Do you think that's a good thing, priest?" asked the man across from him in a low voice.

Father Edward gently rubbed the spine of the book: "Mr. Birmingham, who lives in this community, once experienced a terrible car accident. He had to amputate both legs from the knee part. ”

Losing his legs also left him unemployed, although the company paid a liquidated damages and the driver of the crash also lost a large amount of money. But Birmingham's lost legs will never be recovered. His girlfriend also left him, and to be honest, it was when he was at his lowest. ”

"He came to me a lot and mentioned countless times that he wanted to kill himself. I can only keep persuading him, comforting him, and persuading him that there will always be hope in his life. I am a priest, I believe in my God, but unfortunately I have never really heard God's call. So I don't have the power of the gods to cure Mr. Birmingham's illness. ”

Father Edward said in a low voice, and there was a special contagiousness in his tone: "All I can do is like a placebo prescribed by a doctor." It may not be effective for the patient's condition, but can only comfort Birmingham in the heart. ”

The other end of the confessional is quiet, and you can't hear anything from the man on the other side other than the sound of breathing indicating that the other person is still there. He listened quietly to Father Edward's words.

"Day after day, year after year. Birmingham is a good guy, he used to be helpful, he was a good man in the community. He had good carpentry skills and electrical skills. Everyone will always need his help, and he is always optimistic and smiling at that time. But everything changed after losing both legs. ”

"He couldn't accept the pity and sympathy of others, and it was worse than killing him. I really can't accept that such a good person would end his life on his own in any way. I prayed countless times that God would hear me and that He would send an angel to save Birmingham. ”

Father Edward picked up his glass from the table and took a sip of his own wine: "I don't know if God can hear me, but I always do. That was until last year, when the Osborne Group announced a new limb regenerative medicine program. I knew this was perhaps the best chance to save Birmingham. ”

"The Osborne Group selects the first patients across the U.S. and implements pro bono health care in part. I and the rest of the community launched the initiative and we reported the situation in Birmingham to the Osborne Group, and he was selected in less than a month. ”

The man on the other side interjected, "He's healed, isn't he, priest?" ”

Father Edward nodded, "Yes, it does. He was cured, although he said the healing process was painful. But looking at his regrown legs, I could hardly believe my eyes. ”

"If there is a miracle in this world, I think I have seen it with my eyes, and it is a miracle!" Father Edward was a little excited: "Birmingham is back on his feet, and he has found a new job, and he is smiling again. He even joined the Justice League's vigilante organization. ”

He works hard to help people who are disabled due to car accidents or accidents. He used his experience to encourage everyone and let everyone not give up hope. Because there are people who have already brought miracles to the world. Father Edward paused as he spoke.

"So sir, you just asked me how fast the world is moving forward? I think so, but I think that's the good thing. The world is moving in a good direction, and even though I am old, I can still feel the society boiling again, just like when we first landed on the moon decades ago. ”

"This is the best of times, and I have the privilege of being born in this era," said Fr. Edward, "to witness an unprecedented feat in human history. ”

The man across the confessional took a heavy breath: "But this is also the worst of times, and we may have to bear the unprecedented pain caused by the great changes in human processes, perhaps for two whole generations, or even more. And this process transformation is not known for good or bad for humanity. ”

"Your tone is a bit pessimistic, sir. Father Edward said with some noncommittality.

The person on the other side of the confessional said in a low tone, "Maybe, maybe it's because I've seen too much." Did you know Father, the fighting in the Middle East has stopped. After decades of war, the Middle East suddenly became peaceful after oil lost its value. ”

Father Edward nodded: "It's a good thing, there won't be so many refugees left homeless, and there won't be so many innocent people dying at the gunpoint of the warlords." ”

"They can go back to their hometowns, either farming or building. This is a new era, and they are able to build their homeland peacefully. ”

The man across the confession didn't quite share this view: "It's only temporary. The competition brought about by new energy sources has actually only introduced the strife on Earth into space. Peace in the Middle East is only because the Middle East is not qualified to play the game now. ”

"The real players in this game are the superpowers. Even aliens we don't know about. When we step out of the earth, are we really ready? Will the great development of the universe or the extinction of human civilization? Countless disputes are hidden in the dark universe, and we cannot see the truth and cannot predict the future. ”

"Are the people who are leading the planet to this age really superheroes? Do they really understand what the price of peace is?"

The man across the confessional was saying something so profound that Father Edward didn't know what to say. He thought for a long time before he said, "There are always many forks in the road in the course of history. Sometimes we go the right way, sometimes we go wrong. But it doesn't matter if it's the right one or the wrong one. After all, it is better than not moving forward. ”

"I think our curiosity and courage to explore are very important things that make people human. Because of curiosity, humans have mastered how to use tools, and because of courageous exploration, we have connected the world. In the process, we have taken many detours, and some people have broken into sand while exploring these methods. ”

"They weren't all right, and they even paid a lot of terrible price. But human beings do not stand still because of these pains, we just continue to accumulate experience, weed out the wrong way, and then find the right way. ”

Father Edward had put down his book, and he said with great seriousness: "Are the people who lead us superheroes? I think so, because they are making a way for us with their lives and all their honors." They can still be heroes if they stagnate, and if they continue to explore, they may not recover. There are things that always have to be done. ”

Father Edward said these words in one breath, and he felt a little thirsty. He wanted to pour a glass of red wine, but he found it strangely quiet on the other side.

He asked softly, "Sir?"

There was already silence on the other side.

…………………………

In a Maybach car, Dr. Ethan looked out the window at the skyscrapers of New York and whispered, "I'm back again." ”

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