Xiao Xia, when you were born, it was in the scorching heat, every day at five o'clock, the sun shone on the earth, and at eight or nine o'clock in the evening, you were still reluctant to leave. When you come into this world, it is the time of year when life is at its most vigorous. And you are the fruit of my mother's life when she was at her peak.

So what exactly is life? If you and your mother have life, then what else is life? Today, my mother wants to talk to Xiao Xia about my mother's understanding of life.

Xiao Xia, when her mother was a child, thought that only things that could run, jump, talk, and make sounds like her mother had life.

At that time, my mother felt that life was like an invisible pool of clear water, infused into our bodies and the little animals. There is a clear difference between the presence and absence of life. For example, if we buy a live fish, before it starts to cook, the fish will still move, that is, it will be raw, and when it becomes a fragrant steamed fish, the water of life seems to have evaporated from the fish's body, and although it looks the same as before, it will never move again. When my mother was a child, she thought that if she could move, she would have life, but if she couldn't move, she would have no life.

So the relatives and friends around us, the puppies and kittens, the birds that can fly and the fish that swim around in the river, are all full of life, right?

But that's not enough, because there are a lot of things that move, they make noises, but they don't have life, and one of the reasons is that they don't adapt to the situation. Another interesting function of life is that it makes us react. When her mother shoots Natsu from behind, Natsu will look back at her mother. When Natsu sees a puddle, Natsu knows to walk around. These feedback in different situations are also an important function of life.

Not only that, but there is another important quality of life, which is change and growth. Natsu's nails will grow, and if she eats too much, Natsu will become fat, and over time, Natsu will grow taller and change, these are the special powers of life.

In addition to these hard indicators, my mother thinks that there is something interesting about life, that is, life makes us have rich emotions. Mom felt that our relationship might have been simple at first. For example, if we fall, we feel pain. If we eat something delicious, we will feel satisfied. But slowly, these simple emotions will spread from the initial inspiration point to more things or people. If we are separated from a friend or a loved one, we will also feel as if it hurts, even though we are not physically hurt. And if we meet a confidant, we will also be happy, and our hearts will be as sweet as honey. These variations and branches of affection connect our initial simple feedback with all kinds of things in life, making us emotionally rich people. It is these rich feelings that will motivate us to pursue a more colorful life.

So mom now wants to ask a question, Xiaoxia, do you think the flowers and plants are alive? They don't know how to run, they can't jump, and they don't speak. There are many big trees, and it feels like they haven't changed for many years. If Natsu patted the trees or hugged them, they didn't seem to react at all. So are they alive?

Here my mother wants to describe to you what the life of flowers and plants and trees is like, and then ask Xiao Xia to give an answer.

In fact, the small tree is not so tall in the first place. When the wind comes, the mother tree will give her baby to the wind and ask him to take the baby away and send it to a distant open field. Before leaving, Mother Tree will tell the wind, please don't forget, it's best to send it to a place near water and sunshine.

When the little tree baby left her mother, she was still very small, many of them were smaller than Xiao Xia's little thumb nails, she was carried by the wind, fluttering and floating, and finally stayed in the open space, which is the new home she is going to live her life in.

She slowly sank herself into the soil. Wait, wait, wait, every day, we eat the nutrients that only the saplings can find in the soil, and absorb the tiny droplets of water in the soil that we can't see, and every day it gets bigger.

One day, she broke through the soil again, and now she was different, with long roots growing under her feet and small, but strong stems on top of her head. In this way, she greeted the sun every day, continued to eat, drink, and bask in the sun.

Suddenly, one day, a baby guinea pig dug a small hole in her clearing and took over. Soon, the mother guinea pig, the guinea pig father, the grandparents, and the grandparents all lived in the hole next to the small tree. The little guinea pig dug its burrow bigger and bigger, almost reaching the roots of the small tree.

Xiaoshu knew that if he didn't move, he might not be able to live in peace with his neighbors. So she tries every day to make the roots on the other side longer and thicker, and the roots close to the guinea pig family do not develop them. As the days passed, and the small tree had become a towering tree, she had successfully moved herself away from the guinea pig family over the years. The Curry she moved was so weak and slow that it seemed completely imperceptible to Natsu and her mother. But in Xiaoshu's life, it has changed significantly.

Xiao Xia, do you think Xiao Shu has life? This answer is that of Xiao Xia. Later, your mother will ask you in person. Mom now wants to talk to Natsu about her opinion.

Mom thinks that Xiaoshu and Xiaohua are both beautiful lives, and they are different from ours in time, we are like lovers who can't hug in a parallel universe, and we can't feel each other's feedback, because our timelines are very different.

Mom will give you a simple example. If Natsu hugs Natsu, then Natsu's response to Natsu's hug may be a long, long time later. Our timelines are so different, maybe when Mom and Xiao Xia are not around, Xiao Shu will answer our kindness.

But such a timeline adds infinite romance to the differences in life. Xiaoxia, flowers, plants and small trees all have life forms and emotional ways that we don't understand. This kind of understanding, my mother has always thought it is beautiful, and it is the fun of life.

In fact, although all kinds of life have their own adaptation time, their own way of expression, their own home and environment, all of them are connected and influence each other.

In the summer, when the tree greets the sun every day, it will bring us the air we breathe. And the water we receive from the faucet is the water used by small fish and shrimp in the river. Small insects help small trees deliver gifts to other small trees, sometimes help loosen the soil, and birds fly around and send things to plants. And we are doing what we can for small trees, small flowers, small birds, small fish, small insects and all life forms on earth every day. Because we, though very different, do not even share the same time, we are all one family on Earth.