Chapter 36: The Year of Birth

Youth is a heavy rain, even if you have a cold, you still look forward to going back and drenching it again.

- "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years"

[In this world, what can move people is always something that can make people empathize]

Movies about "youth" are always happy to be filmed non-stop, and all audiences, including myself, still pay for the next one when it comes out after watching countless youth movies. Perhaps we all need to keep looking back on the best places in our hearts in the life that we continue to move forward, so that we can still retain the right to simple happiness and free feeling in the increasingly cruel reality.

In youth, there are dead friends who spend time with us; In the years when we were inseparable from our friends, there were boys we all liked and girls we chased together.

What we like deeply is actually the self who was stupid and naïve in the end; and a companion who is as stupid as himself, but is always willing to accompany his lost companion at a critical moment.

Whose youth has no regrets? Misunderstanding, anger, stubbornness, cowardice... Maybe everyone's youth is not perfect, or maybe because it is not perfect, it is more real and lovely.

I like people who make youth films. They all had too good memories and were unwilling to resist the rest of their lives with memories, so they built a time machine for themselves.

Re-enactment, freeze-frame, ironclad evidence. Whenever the nostalgia of youth is sick again, taking it out and looking at it once is the antidote.

[The most memorable are always those who are accompanied by each other]

Without gorgeous shots or deliberately created a small fresh atmosphere, it is an ordinary Taiwanese alley, a simple middle school classroom.

No hand-holding, no kissing, never being together. It's so simple, but it's so memorable.

Love without fruit, as long as it has bloomed, the color is brilliant. Witnessing this splendor, our youth has no regrets.

We are all sighing for this strange love, or we are sighing for our own youth that is gone. Those who will be moved by this movie must have met their own Shen Jiayi or Ke Jingteng.

Shen Jiayi, who belongs to herself, also has a pure and beautiful side, with crooked eyes, curly eyelashes and deep dimples when she laughs, and she will poke her white shirt in the back with a ballpoint pen, and she will also blame herself for not studying well while handing herself a reference book full of key points.

Ke Jingteng, who belongs to himself, will also have endless humor cells, naïve, simple, funny, hot-blooded, full of childishness, the handsome figure on the bicycle has also made him sigh, and the appearance of scratching the back of his head has also made him laugh.

Everyone's laughter and crying are surprisingly consistent, so I can fully understand why this seemingly ordinary youth movie can hit an amazing box office of more than 100 million in four days. It has no unexpected plot, no romantic courtship offensive, just an emotional process that a naïve boy insists on for a girl for years.

Don't say you like it, but care about anything you say, this is like it from the bottom of your heart.

We may never know the ordinary daily life of the past, maybe it will become an unforgettable inner scenery in the future, and only at the moment when the movie is reproduced, maybe we can clearly see the light and breezy past, it turns out that we have been quietly accompanied in the bottom of our hearts, just like those who have loved, and who have been loved, may not remember each other's names, maybe there is only a vague outline left in our minds, even if we are old now, fat, numb, and have no dreams, but that period of shining light has never disappeared, and continues to stay in parallel time and space, relying on each other。

[Those youth symbols that belong to us]

I like the tacit understanding between the two of them, only knowing each other. He praised her all day long for only reading but would hand over English books at critical moments, and he was punished for jumping a hundred laps with a stool;

He worked hard just to be able to play a boring little bet with her, and stayed at school at night so that he could study with her;

There were blue dots on the back of his white shirt that she poked out;

the quiet and soft afternoon sun when she tied her ponytail for him, the pouring rain on the night he shaved her bald head;

Her smiling face as he and his brothers straightened up;

When he held a fighting match and was covered in injuries, her angry eyes and his tears of chagrin were filled with injuries;

She often said "Ke Jingteng, you are really naïve" when she was slightly angry;

He raised his eyebrows disdainfully when he said that he could read and look down on people;

They sat barefoot by the embankment and talked about the ideal scorching summer, and he said that he wanted to be a very powerful person in the future, at least to make the world a little different because of himself.

She bravely stood up and joined everyone in resisting the instructor's search of her classmates' school bags. Later, she and several big boys were punished for squatting outside the classroom corridor, and she who had never been punished cried so much that she was embarrassed, but at that moment, she was not only beautiful in appearance, but also more beautiful in heart, and truly became the "perfect goddess" in his heart.

Flying Kong Ming lanterns together, he said, "Can you not tell me the answer? Please let me continue to like you"; On the other end, she wrote on the lamp: "Okay, together". It's just that because of his cowardice and an absurd and bizarre game, he finally lost the opportunity to be with her.

Shen Jiayi scolded Ke Jingteng: "Ke Jingteng, you are really naïve. "Ke Jingteng said that I am just naïve, that's why I chased you for so long.

The moment he turned around, tears intertwined with the rain, blurring Ke Jingteng's vision. Behind him is a girl who has liked her for 8 years, and the voice of crying and scolding herself for being a big fool is overwhelming.

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye. You can never see how sad my back is to give up, my naivety comes from the root of my blood, it is by this blood that I can like you for so long, I try to change myself, try to keep up with your pace, and try to insist on liking you, even if I can't see the future, I still like you without asking for anything in return.

[What we have is more than we know]

Two years after their separation, the 9/21 earthquake built a bridge between the two men to reconnect. Ke Jingteng ran a long way away with his mobile phone to find a signal just to make sure she was safe, and the moment Shen Jiayi connected the phone, he said, "If my favorite girl in this world is gone, who will I find to remember the past in the future." ”

If you genuinely and deeply like someone, no matter what kind of hurt and estrangement you have had, she will still be the person you want to care about the most in times of crisis.

The key to "love" is never whether they are together or not, but the psychological position, even if the two people at this moment are already in parallel time and space.

During the chat, Ke Jingteng finally knew that in those days when he loved Shen Jiayi deeply, Shen Jiayi also liked him.

What she said in her best friend's ear that day was: If Ke Jingteng confesses to me, I will be very happy.

However, it doesn't matter anymore, the important thing is that he knows that his youth was never a monologue, and he was not dancing alone.

At the end of the phone, Shen Jiayi said with a smile: "Ke Jingteng, thank you for liking me." ”

Ke Jingteng replied: "I also like me who liked you at that time." ”

I think this is the best annotation of "the girl we chased together in those years".

Ke Jingteng said at Shen Jiayi's wedding: "If you really like a girl, it is absolutely impossible to sincerely wish them eternal happiness." Those like us who put arrows in the back are true love. ”

However, when the girl took her husband's shoulders and walked down the red carpet, smiling and sweetly satisfied, he said to herself: "I was wrong - it turns out that when you really like a girl very, very much, when she is hurt and loved, you will sincerely bless her and be happy and happy forever." ”

At the end of the wedding feast, everyone kissed the bride. The groom made it a condition that he should kiss the bride as he wished. Just when everyone complained about the groom's stinginess, they saw Ke Jingteng rushing to the groom and kissing him mouth-to-mouth for a long time without saying a word. The audience was shocked and burst into warm laughter, and the camera changed to Shen Jiayi's smiling and tearful face.

At that moment, she finally understood the feelings of this boy who had liked her for many years, even if they had never been together before, they would never be together in the future, he always wanted to be close to her.

The boy never kissed the girl, and he said, "Then I'll continue to be naïve," and the girl across from him said, "Yes." "The camera freezes on the red envelope on the dining table - happy newlywed, my youth.

[I like you, just like I like myself who liked you at the time]

Ke Jingteng's parallel time and space store our beloved 'youth', when you think that the youth that has long traveled has long since appeared in front of you, you will not look at it as "good" or "bad", but only describe it with emotional words such as "like" or "dislike". Just like this vivid and natural youth documentary film, it is not only the youth of Nine Knives, Ke Jingteng's youth, and Shen Jiayi's youth, but also everyone's youth.

Nine knives say "there is love to have willpower", yes, if you spend a long time liking someone, then it doesn't matter whether you are together in the end or not, the important thing is that in the process of loving that person, try to make yourself better and make yourself good enough to match. No matter what your original intention is, it is precisely because you have worked hard to give all your efforts to a person that you will cherish the people you love and love you later, and you will be more determined to love the people who come after you and yourself later. These loves and willpower fill our unknown lives with infinite possibilities.

Even if we are in a parallel time and space with them, at least our memories are overlapping, and our hearts will always stay in the summer of that year, depending on each other.

If there were no regrets for these unrepentant youth affairs, there would be no women who knew how to love more later.

The life of loving and being loved like this will carry the warmth and thickness of emotions to protect each other's settled lives.

At that time, a smile, a bow, a look back, we can all be excited for a long time.

At that time, it was wonderful.

A tide called youth has drowned us. When the waves receded, we sat on the beach together soaking wet, watching our favorite girls wave their hands vigorously and happily step on the other side of life. The next wave will take away the beautiful footprints left by the girl on the beach. But we're still there. The appearance of the girl engraved in our hearts will still be there.

The pride is undiminished, and the laughter is back then.

Thanks to those unscrupulous youth,

Thank you for your simple and simple self at that time, thank you for that naïve but precious feeling,

Thank you that I was too young.

Thank... Miss... Commemorate... Memorial...

I like you, and I like yourself back then.

No matter how many people I fall in love with in the future, no matter who will be with me for the rest of my life

The one he loved when he was younger

I will remember you

I will remember myself back then

Youaretheappleofmyeye。

Will you be able to understand my love for you after many years

Do you also smile and remember when we were stupid.