"The Man Who Stole the Shadow" tells the growth story of a boy with gentle and funny, romantic and fresh brushstrokes, "I" is the epitome of every ordinary child, the dull pain of childhood, the impermanent reality, the sincere friendship, the sweet first love, the silent father's love, the stoic mother's love..., the warm healing awakens childhood memories and inner dreams.
Everyone is not like this, constantly growing in trying, maturing in wrestling, and love gives us courage.
01 I've always wanted to shake off my childhood
Become an adult,
Childhood clings to my flesh,
I slipped into a body that was too tight and too small for me.
The boys who transferred from the school were short, thin, lacked self-confidence, and had nothing cute about them compared to the boys in the same class.
The strongest boy in the class regarded him as a love enemy and tried his best to make him ugly, and the girl he had a crush on never gave him anything back... What could have been worse than this?
Yes, the father left him and his mother.
This dark color covers the sky and buries all the beauty in the shadows, only the inferiority and anxiety continue to ferment, occupying the boy's heart.
Childhood was there, a little sad and a little sad, in this small provincial town, the boy desperately waited for Elizabeth to hang the curtain and look at him, waiting in despair to grow up. And the shadow became the turning point of his gray childhood.
02 People should learn to overcome fear and face reality,
will grow,
I'm trying to do that.
When the boy was being teased and punished by his classmates, and depressed and decadent, Ivan, the school policeman, said to him: "There must be something you love and like to do the most, an unfulfilled dream?" ”
At that time, the boy discovers that he has a special ability: he can "steal other people's shadows" and know the fragility of their shadows.
With fear and uneasiness, he hid in the small attic while looking for the warmth of the family's life in the past, while waiting for the moonlight to appear and try to talk to the shadow.
Although people don't even care about others, let alone the shadows of others... But the boy was a special person. He looked straight into his heart and tried to face it.
03 Shadow says:
Find a little light that lights up life for every shadow you have stolen,
Find hidden memory puzzles for them,
That's all we have to ask of you.
The boy felt the shadow's invitation and began to become a spiritual companion for those in need.
Because of the shadow, he plucked up the courage to run for class president, forgave his classmates who bullied him, made a lifelong best friend, and walked out of the expectations of Elizabeth...
Reconciling with the shadows in their troubles, expectations, fears, and desires, he decides to help each stolen shadow find the light in their lives and light up their lives.
He became a special person.
04In fact, the best memories are in the present,
In front of you,
And it's going to be the best time of my life.
The father's departure has become an indelible pain in his heart, and the obsession involves the boy's memories and self-blame in loneliness.
Mom can read his heart, always strong to accompany him growing up, take care of his life, soothe his emotions, teach him to overcome fears, face reality, and tell him that his divorce has nothing to do with him.
Good friend Luc brings him warmth, encouragement and support, and Ivan can always guide him in time.
These loves give him a steady stream of strength.
05 So many years,
I've lived in the past,
Imprison yourself in your childhood.
But from now on,
I'm free,
I still have time to make up for it.
I'm going to build a real life.
A life that will make me happy in the end.
Ivan looked at the burned tool room and sadly told the boy that the photos and letters sent to him by his mother had been burned.
The boy knew through Ivan's shadow that Ivan's mother had died long before he could read. He had a deep well of sorrow in his heart that could not be filled, and that well was his mother, and for so many years he could only rely on his own fabricated letters to seal the lid on this well.
The boy pestered his mother to write a letter to himself, and used his mother's letter to forge a letter for Ivan, hiding it in the ashes of the tool room, and guiding Ivan to find it.
The letter untied the shackles that had imprisoned Ivan in his childhood, and he bravely bid farewell to the past and flew freely to his dreams.
06 This letter from my mother is the most beautiful letter in the world,
It belongs to me and will always be mine.
Mom's letter read: "Mom's biggest wish is that you can grow up happy, and I hope you find a job that makes you happy." No matter what choices you make in life, whether you choose to love or be loved, I hope you will achieve all the expectations I have placed.
Years later, it was these words that healed the boy's heart and reconciled him to his own childhood.
The letter also convinced Ivan that if Mom was there, she would say the same thing to herself.
She said she loved me – it was the foundation of our lives. We are redeemed because of this love, and we find a reason to live well for this love.
07 Never compare people,
Everyone is different,
It is important to find the differences that work best for you.
The boy and his mother go on vacation by the sea and meet a special girl, Claire, who, though deaf and mute, laughs like the timbre of a cello and writes and poems on a kite in the air.
No matter how good the other girls are, they can't compare to her, and Claire is the difference of the little boy.
Years later, the boy discovers his fault, and although he knows that Sophie is a good girl, it is Claire who suits him better. He bravely pursues Claire, possibly fruitlessly, but he knows he must do so.
In fact, Sophie is the same, she loves the little boy and has always given him companionship and encouragement. Choosing to let go at the right time, she also harvested another love of her own and had real happiness.
They all understand the truth that is to find the difference that really belongs to them.
08 You can't interfere in other people's lives like this,
Even if it's for the good of the other person.
Years later, the boy had grown into a fourth-year intern in the Department of Medicine. He knew that becoming a doctor was a dream of his friend Luc, but in order to take care of the family, Luc stayed with his parents and learned to be a baker.
The boy told Luc's father about Luc's dream.
On this day, Luc's father did not call for Luc to make bread, but was alone in the kitchen holding his head and crying. He was saddened by his son's excessive understanding, and he also felt guilty for delaying his son. He decided to set Luc free.
For the first time, he let go of his fierceness, hugged Luc, and said to his son: In the past, only this road was available because at that time, this was the way everyone thought happiness.
Although the mother did not want her son to leave, she cried with joy for her father to sweep him out of the house, holding him and whispering that she had not been so happy for a long time.
Father sent Luc to the medical school, left him the only money left in the family, and said to him: If you find that you are as lame as being a baker, then go home, and this time, I will pass on the craft to him.
The love of parents is to give their children new opportunities and possibilities in life.
09 When we love something, it is never too late,
Help him become the person he is supposed to be.
During the intense work and study in medical school, Luc gradually understood that the life he wanted was the happiness he once had as a baker. So he gave up his medical school courses and returned to the countryside as a baker.
No one is born knowing what they like to do, just keep trying and looking, and life will help you make choices.
Sometimes people yearn for things that they don't necessarily really like, and what they really like may not be so glamorous on the surface.
There is no distinction between a profession and a noble person, and it is happiness to find happiness in the work.
10. Some precious moments in life,
In fact, it all comes from some trivial things.
It is only when we encounter small, inconspicuous details that we suddenly realize the fact that the person we love is no longer there.
The boy realized that his mother existed in every moment of his life, and he never stopped thinking about his mother.
He used to like to look at the fine lines around the corners of his mother's mouth and around his eyes, and although he knew that his mother hated them, these fine lines made him feel at ease, and he read the traces of dependence on his mother's face.
Mom confessed to him her love and resentment towards Her father, and her last trace was a box and a letter left for the boy, which was also full of the warmth of life.
Open the box, and inside is a letter from Dad before, every Christmas and every year on the boy's birthday. It turns out that fatherly love has always been there.
Until this moment, the shackles that had been imprisoning boys in childhood were liberated.
The love of parents is the cure for the heart. Perhaps, the so-called "ability to steal shadows" is actually our ability to empathize.
Friendship, love, affection... There are constantly people fading in life, and there are constantly people who bring us new brilliance, and in this alternation we stumble and grow, mature in loss and gain.
We've all been.
Author: Yerba Buena Perspective Likes education, travel, food and life sharing