The 2023/9/8 years of change
My fifty-nine-year-old mother, who had saved sheets almost the same age as me, thought it was ugly.
After the mother's careful cleaning and cleaning, the fragrance is filled, and the phoenix peony in the mother's mouth, the classic Shanghai large-flower bed sheets, and the Mandarin Duck brand blanket were once the memories of an era of material scarcity.
The old bedding is fine and dense, and the texture is thick, and my mother has always retained the habit of dismantling and washing the bedding in batches for two or three years, including my sister and me.
With a clean bedding and such a classic version of the sheets, you really feel that classic is not synonymous with obsolescence.
Since mother doesn't like to lose her memory, understanding and respecting her is the best cooperation. In an instant, I suddenly felt that it was really vulgar and elegant, and it was warm to lie on such a bed, which was no worse than a few thousand yuan of fashionable bedding.
It seems that I am really going too fast on the road of life, and my thoughts have gone too far ahead, so I will begin to be reluctant to discard and like to reminisce.
In their poor era, even if their grandfather and grandmother worked hard, they could only barely let a family of eight live, and this was just life.
As the eldest in the family, my mother can only continue to wash clothes and pinch braids at home with her sister and brother when she reaches school age. At the age of twelve, she started school, and she could only take two classes a day for blood sugar, and went home to work after taking math and Chinese. Despite this, my mother excelled every time. At that time, children, especially rural girls, were simply too extravagant to study.
In order to survive better, my adult mother learned sewing skills from the master, because my mother worked hard and the craftsmanship was fine, people within a radius of dozens of miles came to visit, especially in the autumn and winter every year, my mother did not rest before 12 o'clock in the evening, the sewing machine of the same age as me became my mother's longest and most intimate partner, and the sound of stepping accompanied me throughout my childhood. To this day, my mother still uses it to sew bed sheets and quilt covers.
Life is so funny and helpless, the mother has no choice at the age of study, and was forced to abandon school in order to help her grandmother share the family affairs, but the mother who has time to study is old, and now her eyes are no longer clear when she occasionally picks up a book.
In my spare time, I would read a little passage to my mother that she liked, and she listened attentively. When we were busy, my mother would wear her reading glasses and move slowly from line to line by herself; A few years ago, my mother underwent physical therapy and was able to read without glasses again.
Each era has its own different characteristics, and now society is paying more and more attention to children's education and psychology.
Children are facing more and more pressure to take various exams and find employment, which is of course a kind of pressure, but will we remember our parents and the youth they gave up for their relatives and families?
How much can we understand the pain of their desire to read but can't? If the past doesn't come again, then make up for the regrets.
I chose a few sets of comic books and large-character folk tales, and my old mother read them with relish, and every day when she saw me, she would narrate Zhang Heng, Li Bing, and Li Shizhen in her eyes.
Then let time slow down, let our old mother, who has worked hard all her life, slowly read the villain book suitable for teenagers, and accompany us for a few more years with her broken thoughts.
Since ancient times, people have longed for romantic and loyal love.
Young men and women, in particular, hope that this love will last forever while they begin to love passionately. Therefore, for love, in addition to warmth, we want to remain eternal. This is a kind of beautiful yearning and expectation of people's love, and the eternity of one heart can be determined by a lock?
The cycle of the days after marriage, all the trivialities, the everyday; Those occasional joys and often unbearable, seemingly inconspicuous but all temper the trivialities that consume the love of the past, which one does not require two adults to communicate and adjust again and again, consume and make moderate concessions to each other, and then start again?
If any party does not debug the effort, but blindly blames and complains, no matter how good the quality of the lock, it will also make the original clear and impurity-free heart dusty, no longer transparent. No matter how strong the affection is, it will be consumed.
Many years ago, an elder once talked to me about the fact that choosing means accepting the price of choice.
At first, I felt that this was a little helpless, if I knew that the choice was a mistake, why not change it immediately?
Now that I think about it, how simple and one-sided is it to think about the problem when I was young, more people can accept the high-spirited young us, we mistakenly think that it is love, but how many people can accept each other's all?
A little bit of your bad temper, a little bit of his laziness, your occasional little unvirtuous, his occasional madman rambling.
In the face of the complete removal of the outside, the most real each other, never disliked and impatient, but to give more understanding and tolerance, this is a kind of love.
People of different generations can find thousands of reasons for not falling in love.
the ingredient theory of the fifties; The educated youth in the sixties seemed to be able to throw away their lovers in the village as a matter of course in order to go to the city; young people who changed their fate through the college entrance examination in the seventies; the theory of urban hukou differentiation in the 80s and 90s; After the new century, the sky-high price of the bride price, no car, no house, and all kinds of new door-to-door to new tunes.
And no matter what age it is, like the bridge that magpies build for lovers, love deep enough can make all obstacles a smooth path, because they just want to simply have each other.
If, now he (she) is middle-aged, after decades of marriage, and is still simply caring about you, caring about you, and feeling sorry for you, then cherish each other, right?!
No matter how things change in the world, whether you are a prosperous business boss, an industry elite or an ordinary worker, the most rare thing is still the one who knows you and understands you, and this is the person who really walks with you with one heart.