For many people, perhaps including you who are reading these words right now, no matter how beautiful you may be or how difficult your circumstances, there is always someone in whose eyes you shine with brilliance. It is possible you will never know in this lifetime that a simple smile of yours can warm another person's heart. In their eyes, you are the meaning itself.
Even when life is painful, one must learn to endure it with a smile.
少年乐知新,哀暮思故友。
Home is where we spent our childhood, a place that planted deep-seated emotional roots in our young hearts. In those simple and joyful days, our parents held our tender hands, walking under a pale blue and beautiful sky. That feeling, emanating from the inside out, represents the most enjoyable time in one's life.
Those deep green waters, the scattered sunlight on the ground, and the low bridge pier constitute the most profound images of memory. They are memories, the shadows of heartache that cannot be erased, quietly residing at the deepest part of my years, accompanying me through one period of solitude after another. Looking back on the past, you stood at the very center of my heart, warmly yet cruelly peeling away my youth over these years. I alone, wearing a mask that was both strong and fragile, swam through and conquered those extraordinary periods of time, moving from the earliest memories to the present, lonely and through varying depths. But you have long since departed, no longer by my side.