This is a book I read recently. Don't worry, wait for me to make a cup of coffee and slowly give you a word...
The story takes place in an old renovated café that is hundreds of years old, and if you don't know its history, you'll think it's deliberately decorated in a retro style. The shop is on the basement floor, and there is no modern café to keep the temperature constant throughout the year, only a squeaky fan, but even in the hot summer, the room still feels cool. There is little decoration on the wall, and the three large watches hanging on the wall are striking, and the interesting thing is that the time of each table is different, of course, I can secretly tell you that only the time of the middle watch is accurate. There's no usual music in the room, the sporadic guests are doing their own thing, and the conversation between two people will seem extra clear, but neither of them will care about the content of your conversation. In addition to the indifferent owners and waiters and the strong aroma of handmade coffee, the most attractive thing about this café is the legend, the legend that can go back to the past or the future. It is said that sitting in one of the seats in this café allows you to go straight back to the day you want to reach, but there is a law for everything, but this one is more or even more demanding:
Even if you go back in time, if the person you want to meet has never been to this coffee shop, you will not be able to see this person;
Even if you go back to the past, no matter how hard you try, you can't change the reality;
If you can return to the seat where the guest is already seated, then you can only sit on it when the guest leaves the seat;
The time to be able to go back in time is limited to the time the coffee is poured into the cup until the cup is completely cold... If the coffee is cold and you don't come back, then you become a ghost living between the past (future) and the present...
If it's made into a movie, it's going to be the film with the least set cost, because according to this rule, all the stories will take place in this café. So it's like the question on the title page of the book: If you could go back to that day, who would you want to meet?
The arrogant "White Bone Spirit" Ermiko wants to meet her boyfriend Takuro, who broke up, and wants to tell him that she does not want to break up with him;
Miss Takatake, a nurse who loves her husband with Alzheimer's disease, wants to see a letter that her husband, who is not good at writing, has written to her in the past;
Hirai, who ran away from home, wants to go back to the day her sister was in a car accident and tell her that she is willing to go home;
The frail boss lady Ji wants to go to see her grown daughter one day in ten years;
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Having said that even going back in time, no matter how hard you try, you can't change reality, so, clever, I ask you, is it that everything is meaningless? Tell the lover that he is not willing to give up, he will still break up; see the husband's letter, the husband will still forget himself; see his sister, the car accident of the day will still happen; see the daughter ten years later, he still can't accompany... Did all the crossings become futile? None of this makes any sense?
No, it's not like that...
Although they will break up, lovers who love each other will still meet;
Although he will be sick, he understands the husband's intentions and no longer takes care of the husband as a nurse but accompanies the husband in the name of the wife;
Although they will die, the sisters with communication disorders understand each other, one is relieved to go home, one is gone without regrets;
Although they can't accompany each other, mother and daughter both express their desire for each other's better...
The meaning itself does not lie in changing the result, but in the relief and letting go of the bottom of the heart, letting go of the other party and letting go of yourself.
In real life, without that mysterious café, we can't go back to the past, we can't see everything, we can't make up for it, but as the Western proverb goes, "it's better to be late than not." To his meaning, "doing" itself is meaning.
If there is an apology, go and apologize now;
If there is love, go and confess now;
If there is remorse, make amends now;
Inner peace and relief is the best result!
My cup of coffee, there is no rising heat, I want to drink it calmly, before the coffee is cold...