"If a lot of people are different, no one needs to be ordinary."
- "Grandma's Apology Letter"
01.
A fairy tale world woven by Grandma with reality
Aisha, who is about to celebrate her 8th birthday, is an ordinary and special little girl.
She was born into an ordinary family, went to school normally, accepted the fact that her parents were divorced, but had a special grandmother, who took her into a fantasy fairy tale world, and Elsa also gloriously became a knight of the kingdom of Miamas in her grandmother's fairy tale, guarding the sleepless continent.
After her grandmother's death, young Elsa follows the knightly task her grandmother gave her, delivering apology letters, and gradually unveils the fairy tale. It turns out that fairy tales are not fictional, and the main characters in the story are in the real world with corresponding people.
This fairy tale world woven with reality is the embodiment of Grandma's gentle and powerful love.
Grandma was a central figure in the community of apartment dwellers, and she helped many people before Elsa was born. Even at the end of her life, she used her own methods to protect Elsa and the residents of the apartment, who played an important role in the Sleepless Continent, because her grandmother's apology letter showed Elsa her truest appearance and the most painful past.
There is a saying in the book: "Not all monsters start out as monsters, and some become monsters because of sadness." Those painful pasts have made the occupants of the apartments different "monsters".
02.
She wasn't weird, just longed to be loved
When everyone looks strange, strangeness becomes the most unworthy feature in this apartment, in which Britt-Marie, who likes rules and asks everyone to "do things according to common sense", has become the most different person because of ordinary.
In contrast to Elsa, who grew up in love, Britt-Mary's previous life was rather humiliating.
As a child, Britt-Mary had an excellent sister who shone like the sun, and in a car accident, the sister died unexpectedly, and then Britt-Mary began to be forced to bear the resentment of her parents, resenting why it was her sister who died and not her. The decorations of love peel off, and in the dense sting of hatred like a needle, Brit-Marie gradually loses herself as a girl.
Later in her marriage to Kent, Britt-Marie was also the neglected party.
All along, her wish has been simple: "I think someone can remember that I was once alive." I think someone knows that I used to live here. However, under the repeated concessions she made for Kent, under the all kinds of compromises, the wish seemed particularly out of reach.
Despite her age, Britt-Marie rarely felt love from others, not strangely, but longing for it, even if it was sparse and subtle.
Fortunately, after reading the apology letter given to her by her grandmother, Britt-Mary finally had the courage to get rid of the status quo of standing still, she gave up the emotional struggle with Kent, and walked out of the apartment to find her own life.
Everyone has the right to choose to live for love, and also has the courage to let themselves go. Britt-Mary imprisoned herself in the name of love, and in the last kindness released by her grandmother, she finally absorbed the energy of love and understood the true meaning of love.
For people who lack love, the greatest love for this world is to love yourself.
03.
No one should be punished for being different
The occupants of the apartment all look different, even strange, and Elsa is one of them.
In the Sleepless Continent, Elsa is a powerful knight who guards the safety of the six kingdoms; but in school life, she is a different and weak being.
The school wants Elsa to learn to be sociable and learn to do what girls should do, and children can easily bully people who are different from them. Elsa was lucky to have a strong and loving grandmother who didn't make this unusual thing a tragedy in Elsa's life.
I always feel that life is like a game of breaking through, maybe each of us has its own unique shape at the birth point, but in the level after level, in order to adapt to the shape of the pass and forcibly change their shape, in the end to find that the shapeless sphere is the most convenient and labor-saving, everyone spontaneously rolled into the ball, as for what shape he originally was, care about him.
Life seems to be a trap game, and everyone's life will always make more or less mistakes, big or small, as the book says: "The real trap of life is that almost no one is a complete asshole, and almost no one has never done an asshole." 」 ”
It is impossible to avoid stepping on the pit in life, and it is more practical and important to have the ability to clean up after stepping on the pit than the super ability to never step on the pit. If there were only convenient and easy-to-clean spheres left in life, the cubes and triangular pyramids would be sad, and the geometric world would be sad.
No one should be punished for being different. If life is a process of polishing the edges and corners, I still don't want to see everyone in a perfect shape, because being exactly the same means not only integrating into social life, but also losing the uniqueness of life itself.
I love the quote from the book: "If a lot of people are different, no one needs to be ordinary." Or to make "different" a norm, another "ordinary", let this "ordinary" bring more creativity, more beautiful inspiration, more corrective emotions, which is not more painful than factory assembly line operations?
(Text/Pick up light Photo/Movie "Thief Family")