Do you know tomorrow and accident, which one came first and where?
From the Japanese novelist Akira Nosaka's Tomb of the Fireflies. The original sentence in it is: cherish today, cherish the present, who knows tomorrow and accidents, which one comes first.
Grave of the Fireflies is a Japanese animated film directed by Takahata Anderson and starring Tatsumi-no-nu and Ayano Shiraishi.
The film tells the story of Kobe, who lost her mother to an air raid and was adopted by relatives, and her 4-year-old sister Setsuko, who lost her mother to an air raid, and lives away from the people under the rule of the Rinzuku (an institution set up to rule the people at that time during World War II), but gradually dies because she does not receive assistance from adults.
A ragged teenager, breathlessly lying at a crowded station, is slowly approaching the end of his short life at the age of 14, in Japan, just over a month after the defeat of the war.
The air raids began, and my mother died in the bombing. In the face of the sudden blow, all the brother could do was hide the news of his mother's death from his young sister. In the empty square, the brother laughed and worked hard to perform the horizontal bar for the sister who was crying to find his mother, and the two thin figures under the sunset looked so thin. Perhaps, at that moment, the brother tried to carry all his sorrows and decided to lift up a clear sky for his sister on the chaotic ruins.
The brothers and sisters could only go to relatives. However, war alienates kinship, and material deprivation makes people indifferent to each other. More and more white eyes and less and less rice in the bowl hinted that they had to leave. The brother finally decided to move away with his sister and build a home of his own. But, while singing and leaving happily, how could he have anticipated the irreversible tragic fate of the war?
In order to make the younger sister no longer hungry, the brother had to risk his life to steal while the plane was bombing. Whenever he found some food in an empty house, he would be extremely excited.
In the dark abandoned cave, the brother catches fireflies under mosquito nets, and the flying fireflies are clearly extinguished in the sweltering summer night. The brother hugged his sleeping sister tightly, afraid that if he let go, he would lose it again.
Life is short, so short that we don't have time to enjoy it. Life is so long that we are always looking forward to tomorrow. Life is sometimes very tenacious, each of us is fighting against life, we work hard every day, still strong to live. Life is sometimes fragile, and before we can savor it, we don't have a chance to experience it.
The world tomorrow and accidents never know which one will come first, good people do not have a long life, bad people can not see bad retribution, may be too short time, meet too late, sincere but not brave enough,...... What do you live in?
Please cherish the present and grasp the future!