A little memory

Osvaldo 2022-12-02 09:14:28

I think of my best friend LB when I played in elementary school, a girl who is particularly talented in painting, and she laughs sweetly. She is the girl I have ever seen with the most aura of painting, so that at that time I would take pictures. Copying her paintings. Everything seems to be full of life under her paintbrush, and comes easily. As if she was born for painting.

At that time, I would go to her house every week, read comic books and take drawing lessons together. She would leave me the posters of each issue of "Manyou" and lend me her favorite magazine. You must know how precious a "Manyou" poster was to elementary school students at that time. We would secretly pass notes in class, get together between classes, and even call each other on the landline at home after school. Sharing all kinds of interesting thoughts and secrets, even the teacher later found our parents and said that we were too clingy and delayed learning. However, my memory of her only stayed at that time.

Although the two of them are in the same high school, but they don't communicate often, her character has become less lively than before, and I have other good friends. The two people gradually estranged without knowing why. There has been no quarrel or disagreement. I always felt that because she went to a junior high school that she didn't like, her personality became disinterested in conversation. At first we would call each other to greet each other, but then we disconnected.

Later, the two met once during the college vacation. It was strange to say that they remembered the details of playing together as a child, but couldn't remember the last time they met. Can't remember what they did and talked about when they met. It seems that I ate ice cream and dessert together, and I also joked about how she lost so much. However, after that meeting, I seemed to know in my heart that it was the last time we met.

So when I saw Jack looking at Tony's back in the art gallery at the end but didn't say hi, I think Jack also knew the fate of the two people is so far, each has its own life, no matter how close they are, they are just shadows that survive in the past. It seems that Jack is painting peacefully on the ground, but in fact, he and Tony's previous days have been played over and over again like a movie. As you know, the progress bar of some people is finished when you finish it in your life.

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Little Men quotes

  • Tony Calvelli: [describing his father's infrequent returns home] We seem like a normal family, and then - boom - they start fighting about something stupid, like always, and... I realize it's better when he's not around.

  • [acting class, with teacher and student frequently repeating each confrontational exchange multiple times]

    Acting Teacher: How long have you been doing this exercise?

    Tony Calvelli: How long have you been doing this exercise?

    Acting Teacher: I'm not playing with you!

    Tony Calvelli: I'm not playing with you!

    Acting Teacher: You know, you make me make mistakes in my own exercise!

    Tony Calvelli: You know, you make me make mistakes in my own exercise!

    Acting Teacher: You make me make mistakes in my own exercise!

    Tony Calvelli: You MAKE me make mistakes in my own exercise!

    Acting Teacher: I make you make mistakes!

    Tony Calvelli: I make you make mistakes!

    Acting Teacher: I make this exercise the way I like it!

    Tony Calvelli: I make this exercise the way I like it!

    Acting Teacher: I LIKE the exercise!

    Tony Calvelli: I LIKE the exercise!

    Acting Teacher: I love the exercise!

    Tony Calvelli: I love this exercise!

    Acting Teacher: I don't wanna do any other exercise!

    Tony Calvelli: I don't WANNA do any other exercise!

    Acting Teacher: I DON'T wanna do another exercise!

    Tony Calvelli: I never wanna do another exercise!

    Acting Teacher: I never wanna do another exercise!

    Tony Calvelli: I never wanna do another exercise!

    Acting Teacher: You have a terrible attitude!

    Tony Calvelli: YOU got a terrible attitude!

    Acting Teacher: Your attitude is more horrible than MINE!

    Tony Calvelli: Your attitude's more horrible than MINE!

    Acting Teacher: You're a master of horrible attitudes!

    Tony Calvelli: YOU'RE the master of master horrible!

    Acting Teacher: You got the swiss cheese up inside your skull instead of a brain!

    Tony Calvelli: I got the swiss cheese inside my skull instead of a brain!

    Acting Teacher: I don't know how you get anything done all day long!

    Tony Calvelli: I don't know how I get anything done all day long!

    Acting Teacher: I don't know how YOU get anything done all day long!

    Tony Calvelli: I don't know how YOU get all day done at all!

    Acting Teacher: I don't know what you're talkin' about!

    Tony Calvelli: I don't know what YOU'RE talkin' about!

    Acting Teacher: I never know what you're talkin' about!

    Tony Calvelli: I never know what I'm talkin' about!

    [pause]