Sitting on the sofa in the study, my father calmly recalled his life.

It's like a person with terminal cancer, it's not him.

I asked him, how much longer?

He told me that it was only a few weeks.

Suddenly, I found myself so frightened and empty inside.

But if a boy loses his father, then in this world, he can really only rely on himself to hold up a piece of the world.

Dad saw what I was thinking, and he smiled and told me,

Life is like a big bag full of miscellaneous items, and you can touch anything from it. Including his cancer, but also his acquaintance and love with his mother, and gave birth to me and my sister who made him proud.

These are all gifts that life gives people, whether it is good or bad.

I knew my dad was right, but I couldn't suppress the grief in my heart.

Finally, before I left, my dad told me a big secret.

I thought it was about traveling through time, but what he told me was the secret of happiness.

The first part of the plan was to continue my daily life......

Working hard in the law firm, eating every meal, fighting every lawsuit, listening to loud music in the subway, and sleeping well......

The second part of the plan is for me to use my superpowers to relive each day.

For the first time, because of nervousness and worry about the future, we often fail to notice the beauty of this world......

But wait until you have the same day for the second time before you discover the little things in life that make you happy.

In the law firm, he teased the harsh boss with his friends.

While eating, I noticed that the waiter's smile was very beautiful and gave her the same smile back.

When it comes to lawsuits, give the agent and colleagues a warm hug.

On the subway, dance to the intense music.

I found that it was really easy to make life happy and fulfilling.

All you need is confidence and patience in life.

Of course, even though I know this secret, there are days when I still can't be happy.

My father's funeral finally came as scheduled.

Everyone changed into black clothes and gathered in the living room of the house as if they were going on a date, waiting for the last moment of the funeral.

I couldn't stand the atmosphere and couldn't help but go back to the day I learned my father had cancer.

Walking into his study, he was sitting on the sofa, holding a copy of "Zhuangzi" and reading carefully.

He looked at my face as if he knew I had come here at that time.

He smiled and said to me, it seems that you came from the day I left. Thank you for coming to see me, by the way, is your uncle's clothes still so neat?

I nodded and smiled: yes, he will always be like that.

Then he read me the Zhuangzi.

There is a fish in the north of the underworld, and its name is Kun. The Kun is so big that I don't know how many thousands of miles it is, and it turns into a bird, and its name is Peng......

Looking at the way he reads, I feel like I have returned to my childhood, completely forgetting the pain of losing him.

Luckier than my mother, sister, and uncle, I was able to go back and see my dad at any time.

Unfortunately, it didn't take long for me to find myself stripped of this privilege.

Mary probably had some idea after my father's death that she wanted to have another child.

On a very abrupt afternoon, she and I sat in our backyard drinking tea.

She suddenly said to me, I feel like maybe, we should have another insurance baby?!

I'm a little confused, what is an insurance baby?

Mary smiled and said, "You know two children, one of them must be a little smarter or prettier than the other." I don't want to live with low self-esteem for the rest of my life. If we have three babies and two humble babies together, we can live happily, then they can all grow up healthy.

Mary is such a kind woman.

I knew she was just trying to comfort me and my family with a newborn baby and the grief of losing my father.

But it was one of the hardest decisions of my life.

To have a child and move towards a new future, it is necessary to completely "say goodbye" to the old father of the past, and this time it is goodbye forever.

Because after the child is born, I can no longer travel back in time to the time before the child was born.

I could not make such a decision, so I could only say to Mary perfunctorily, why don't we wait a little longer and discuss this issue later?

Mary nodded and smiled, well, I can understand.

She lowered her head, waited for three seconds, then suddenly raised her head and asked again, can we discuss it now? It's been a while.

Looking at the playful smile on her face, and the care and affection in her eyes, I knew that the time had come for me to make a decision.

Eventually, I agreed to her request and we decided to have another child.

……

On the first night of my child's labor, I traveled for the last time to the time when my father was alive.

I had a fierce father-son table tennis tournament with him.

For the first time in years, he won me.

He was happy, but I was very sad.

He was still so perceptive that he immediately guessed that this was the last time I would see him.

I nodded and told him that the third child was about to be born.

He was happy, but with endless sorrow in his joy.

The two of us seemed to know that this day would come sooner or later.

I asked him what else I could do for him before saying goodbye to him completely.

He mysteriously told me that he wanted to take me to a place, and as long as I was careful, nothing should happen.

That afternoon, I went back to the summer when I was 6 years old and spent an entire afternoon playing on the beach with my 40-year-old father.

My dad didn't hit as far as I did, but he laughed louder than I did......

That afternoon was one I will never forget.

……

The third child was born, and I never saw my dad again.

My family, like all normal families, is slowly getting used to the loss of a loved one.

Once again, everything is back on track.

My sister also became as cheerful as she did when she was a child, but I had to get used to the surprise that she had become a mother.

Every time I see her holding a child, I always have a feeling that danger could happen at any time.

Finally, I've learned one last lesson from plane travel.

I think I've taken one more step than my dad.

That is, I don't go back in time now, and even if there are many regrets in my life, I will never want to change them.

Instead, I learned to live my day to the best and enjoy the life of an ordinary person,

Every day we all spend together is like traveling through time and space together, and all we can do is do our best to experience the process and find the happiness and joy in it.

Until the last day of our lives.

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