"Little Forest, Winter and Spring": From an ordinary story, harvest three extraordinary truths

The protagonist Persimmon lives in Komori, farming, shoveling snow, preparing food, and going to work at the supermarket. It seems orderly, so free that it is enviable, and it is difficult to find any violation for a while.

But a closer look is not difficult to find that persimmons are a person's life.

Except for the occasional time when friends came to accompany her to dinner, she was alone. One grows crops, one clears the thick snow, one prepares food and one eats, one works to earn money to support oneself.

It's as if she doesn't have a family, but in fact, Persimmon has a mother. However, her mother did not quit without warning one day, leaving only a letter for Persimmon.

Persimmon, who had been dependent on her mother for her life, had nowhere to go after her mother left, so she returned to Komori to live alone. The whole process is in line with common sense and there is nothing wrong with it.

But as Persimmon's friend Yuta said: "I have always admired your hard life alone, but it always makes people feel that you are always dodging, hiding, and deceiving yourself for the most important things, but you are covering up all this under the guise of effort. ”

Hearing this, Persimmon was speechless.

Returning to Komori is a helpless move made by Persimmon when she has nowhere to go, and it is more practical to escape to Komori than to return to Komori.

For example, after graduation, we have nowhere to go but can only go back to our hometown, and it is also like all kinds of "drifters" who have escaped from the north, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Such a choice was not made willingly, but a passive compromise without other options.

Such us and persimmon are the same, seemingly serious efforts, in fact, in the heart of even what kind of future they want, what kind of life they want to live, for this reason, muddy, hesitant, cowering, in the face of major choices, subconsciously want to escape.

But such an escape is not always the solution.

Yuta, like Omori's older generation, enjoys life from the bottom of her heart, accepts everything, and takes it seriously. But these are what persimmons do not have, and we who have passively compromised have not, and we are not satisfied with our current life.

After escaping, it will eventually be more painful, and what should be done should be taken to do it, do not escape, and hold the initiative in your hands in order to leave some room for yourself.

Planting crops is a part of the protagonist's life, and persimmons are sown at the right time for each crop, missing unfavorable growth and affecting the harvest.

Rice should be harvested in a clear weather, and rain will make the millet moldy and long-shoot, so that the hard work of the whole season will be lost.

Everything has a time to grasp, the sowing of crops is so harvested, and the same is true of doing things.

Without winter storage, spring sowing, summer ploughing, there is no autumn harvest. Our lives are interlocking, and every missed opportunity affects the outcome of the next.

I had missed two level four exams in a row because of carelessness, and when my roommates were getting the level four certificates and preparing for the level six exams, I was still spending a lot of time reading books and preparing for the level four exams. This caused me to progress one step slower than others, which affected other arrangements.

Every stage of life has something to do, you should not study well when you should study, you can only taste the bitter fruit of not learning in the future, and it is inevitable to suffer losses.

Learning is like this, and so is life. When it is time to do something to escape, perfunctory, you will get a perfunctory result of escaping.

After all, every regretful today has a yesterday that did not work hard.

Or rather, what you get today is what you gave yesterday and before.

After being told by Yuta, Persimmon also reflected on herself, and when she returned home, she took out her mother's letter and looked at it again.

It was not difficult to see the entanglement and struggle, the contradiction and the pain on her face. Just like after a blizzard, she looked at the sky split in two by blue sky and dark clouds and whispered, "Just like me."

But she didn't change that.

As soon as the picture turns, when it is time for spring sowing, Persimmon slowly says, "Potatoes can be sown at the earliest, and every winter, Komori's people will keep seeds for planting in the next spring and store food for the next winter." In other words, the first thing to do once the winter is over is to prepare the ingredients for the next winter. ”

Year after year, year after year.

But Persimmon decided not to plant potatoes this year, "because next winter, I will not be here", a simple sentence, it makes people feel inexplicably hot in their hearts, and they are so excited that they can't help themselves.

As she thought when she looked at her mother's letter, "Man himself is like a spiral, although it always seems to circle in the same place, but each time it is different, or up or down or horizontally extended out, drawing the circle a little larger, a little bigger." Thinking about it, I felt that I should still try harder. ”

What touched people the most was the courage of Persimmon to try again after escaping, and the courage to execute it immediately after making a decision.

Persimmon's friend Noriko has a very different attitude toward her leaving Komori than Yuta, and Noriko once had a vicious affirmation that "she is going to pretend to be a fallen princess" and "she will be back soon anyway".

Indeed, after five years, Persimmon still returned to Komori, or even settled, but at this time, her face was more determined than before.

I think that once she did not have the attitude of the older generation of Komori who enjoyed life in her heart, accepted everything, and took it seriously, and returned to Komori with enough confidence and determination.

Whether we have escaped or failed, as long as we have not given up, we can get back on our feet and set off for the nth time.