43, the baby's laughter
- The Spirit Recluse
At one o'clock in the morning, the wife was coaxing the children to sleep. The son was active and didn't seem to be a little sleepy. The wife lightly nodded his chest with her fingers, and he grinned, closed his eyes slightly, and smiled. This smile is particularly healing. I took the phone record, and my wife cooperated to tease him, and every time he laughed, laughed silently. Only once, occasionally a little noise came out. My wife and I laughed along with it.
Before that, he had cried, and his face was red. Now being teased, laughing again. He must have forgotten why he was crying, and after a while he would forget why he was laughing now. In short, it is time to cry and laugh to laugh.
Adults certainly can't cry and laugh like this. So how do you learn from babies? Don't learn, just keep the baby's laughter in your heart. Be clear that babies laugh and cry, he is not for others, it is for himself.
As I posted in the circle of friends: I hope you will see the smile and the sunshine tomorrow morning, and then enthusiastically move towards today's life.
In this way, my son's laughter even affected the mood of several people at that moment. For me, that's what he meant and what he valued. Just as we look at the sun in this way, sunlight is the meaning and value of the sun.
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