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Cristina 2022-03-24 09:01:47

Before leaving the house yesterday, I went to the house where my grandfather and grandmother lived, and dug out my grandfather's work diary 30 years ago. People who have been conscientious and conscientious all their lives are inevitably confused in the end.


I thought I would cry when I saw a movie like "Still Alice", but in fact, I was a little anxious during the viewing process. I pressed pause many times, went to the toilet, put a bowl of porridge, and read The mobile phone, I think it has nothing to do with the content of the movie, has been slowly contaminated with the life of being crushed into pieces.


A few years ago, when I was a student, I went to my grandparents’ house during the winter and summer vacations, because my grandfather became a little confused and the family needed someone to accompany me. When I was at home during the holidays, my mother could relax. I learned how to appease the elderly like a child, but only by washing my face, changing clothes and feeding medicine; I also secretly calculated how much money I need to save when my parents grow old so that I can have no worries of companionship and support. I can't even remember how my grandfather first nicknamed me and ended up just looking at me and saying "this little guy". At that time, watching "Eraser in My Head" seemed to cry a lot.


During my teenage to adulthood, I became sensible because of my grandfather's little disease. But these are not what I want to grow up, and no one wants it. My memory fades little by little. They say that old children are old children, but people will never treat the elderly like they treat children.


After my grandfather passed away, I never dreamed of him. Until now, every time I went to the outer cemetery, I would just light incense and kowtow in silence. My grandfather had so many past experiences that it was too late to tell me that maybe my grandfather was the person in my family who was most similar to me - rigorous and serious. I also love to reason - but before I can understand the reason, my grandfather is confused. By the time I wanted to hear the truth, my grandfather had passed away. So I can only piece together memories, as well as those notes and autobiographies, to miss.


I learned from a very young age that pain is inevitable as we age. Grandma, who is now in her 80s, is also spending day after day in a more and more confused state. The one who talks about the most every day is me - where I went, and if I can't come back, I carefully ask if I want to sleep with her tonight. I can’t tell whether I’m going to school or work, and I’m always told repeatedly not to go out alone at night and not to swim in rivers and ponds… And I’m always patient, indifferent, guilty, evasive, and confronted again. In the cycle, the feeling of powerlessness is multiplied.


You know, more illnesses are entangled with ordinary people and ordinary families. Sometimes I feel that I am a little unfounded, so I ask myself to maintain the courage to be optimistic, so that I can live today in a down-to-earth manner. Even if he only clearly lived to be fifty years old, he was still halfway there. At this moment, you have stepped into the society, made your own money, learned to enjoy life and be responsible for life little by little, what should come will always come, right?


God, I'm still a little pessimistic, and if I don't mean it, stop here.

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Extended Reading
  • Blaze 2022-03-31 09:01:03

    Picture this: When you do something you regret and want to apologize to someone, it feels like they don't even remember the whole thing.

  • Lottie 2022-03-31 09:01:03

    Julianne Moore's acting is amazing, but I really don't like movies like this, that powerless sadness is sharper than a knife. The loving director in the behind-the-scenes story is a different color outside the play, paying attention to the vulnerable and helpless life groups~~~

Still Alice quotes

  • [last lines]

    Lydia Howland: [reading to her mother, but mostly from memory] "Night flight to San Francisco chase the moon across America. God, it's been years since I was on a plane. When we hit 35,000 feet, we'll have reached the tropopause, the great elt of calm air. As close to the ozone as I'll get, I - I dreamed we were there. The plane leapt the tropopause, the safe air, and attained the outer rim, the ozone, which was ragged and torn, patches of it threadbare as old cheesecloth, and that was... frightening."

    Lydia Howland: "But I saw something only I could see because of my astonishing ability to see such things. Souls were rising, from the earth far below, souls of the dead, of people who's perished from famine, from war, from the plague... And they floated up, like skydivers in reverse, limbs all akimbo, wheeling, spinning. And the souls of these departed joined hands, clasped ankles and formed a web, a great net of souls. And the souls were three-atom oxygen molecules of the stuff of ozone and the outer rim absorbed them, and was repaired. Because nothing is lost forever. In this world, there a kind of painful progress. A longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead. At least I think that's so."

    Lydia Howland: [moving over alongside her mother] Hey. Did you like that. What I jest read, did you like it?

    Dr. Alice Howland: [barely grunting]

    Lydia Howland: And what... What was it about?

    Dr. Alice Howland: Love. Yeah, love.

    Lydia Howland: Yeah, it was about love.

  • Dr. John Howland: I think it's ridiculous, I think it's bullshit, and I...

    Dr. Alice Howland: Damn it, why won't you take me seriously? Look, I KNOW what I'm feeling, and I... I feel, I feel like my brain is... is fucking DYING and everything I know and everything I worked for, it's all going...

    [bursts into terrified sobbing]