"Song of Tomorrow" Honor Your Parents

Mathilde 2022-07-04 12:57:02

Lucy told her granddaughter Rhoda: "When you're seventeen, the world is so beautiful, and it's like going to a dance or a party is so much fun when you're seventeen. But when you're seventy, You can't dance anymore, and you don't want to go to a party anymore, the only fun you have left at that time is to pretend that there is no reality to face, so I hope you don't mind me and continue to pretend?!"

How sad, How helpless.

Lucy was too considerate of her children's feelings. In her letter to Buck, she clearly stated how much she was afraid of life in a nursing home. But in order not to embarrass their children, they embarrass themselves.

Even the newspaper shop owner cared more about Buck than his own daughter.



I don't know how sad they will be. They obviously want to stay together for a lifetime, but they are forced to separate the two places because their children don't want to take too many responsibilities, and then say goodbye on the train. Let's say goodbye here, I don't know when we'll see each other again.

Can't help but cry.

Why do children care so much about their parents' feelings?

In the second half, every word of the old couple made me sad. But the tune happens to be accompanied by a waltz.



"Life is fleeting, so few people stop to think about those who are out of touch with the rhythm of the times, we can't appreciate

their laughter and tears, because there is no magic in this world that can make old and young truly understand each other , we are separated by thousands of mountains and rivers and this painful distance can only be narrowed by the words of an ancient wise man..."

This sentence is:

-----Honor your parents

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Make Way for Tomorrow quotes

  • Rhoda Cooper: Why don't you face facts, Grandma?

    Lucy Cooper: Oh, Rhoda!

    [Pats her hand]

    Lucy Cooper: When you're 17 and the world's beautiful, facing facts is just as slick fun as dancing or going to parties, but when you're 70... well, you don't care about dancing, you don't think about parties anymore, and about the only fun you have left is pretending that there ain't any facts to face, so would you mind if I just went on pretending?

  • Pa: You know, I sometimes think that children should never grow past the age when you have to tuck them into bed every night.

    Max Rubens: That's right. When they get older, and you can't give them as much as other choldren, they're ashamed of you, and when you give them everything and put them through college,

    [He folds his arms]

    Max Rubens: they're ashamed of you.