just passing by you

Chapter 41 The Realm of Love (1)

One of my distant uncles has watched swans by the lake for more than 30 years.He likes these beautiful big birds, even, almost worships them.Every year when winter comes and the swans are about to migrate, he will silently stand by the lake to see them off.In the spring of the second year, they came one after another, and my uncle always sprinkled a lot of food to celebrate their return intact.Especially when the two swans, which were originally flying solo, finally flew side by side, he was more excited than he was getting married, and would often pull his aunt to bless their union together.

When asked why he loves these swans that have nothing to do with him, the uncle laughed and said, how can animals that are more loyal and persistent than humans not be liked and admired by others?I was puzzled, so my uncle told me in detail that he spent 30 years and finally discovered a belief that almost all swans will follow in love.

When two swans start to fall in love, there is no other swan in their eyes.They will not waver in front of many excellent candidates like human beings, and even distribute a little love to many individuals at the same time.Once they decide to start a relationship, then only two people are allowed to walk together on the road of love.When the migration season comes every year, their love also begins an important test period.They can't be sure whether the other party is a lover who will stay together for a lifetime, so they choose to use time to test this love.They give up the warmth of staying together every day, just for staying together and loving each other for a longer period of time.So they followed their respective teams, turned around and flew away without hesitation.

In this kind of separation, they have to get rid of the torment of loneliness and longing, and they may also face the test of life and death, and the love signals sent by other swans.However, all of this becomes insignificant because of the other half far away.Human beings can maintain close contact with convenient communication when they are in two places; but they have nothing, except the love and tenderness buried in their hearts, loyalty and persistence.But these are far more persistent and eternal than the communication tools developed by humans.In the spring of the coming year, if one of them has no accident, they will continue their love and dance on the lake with abundant water and grass.

Such a test will take three long years.In these three years, they have always only loved this one, and they have only kept this love in their hearts.When the three-year trial period is over, if the two swans feel that their love cannot continue, they will break up amicably.But if they still love each other, one of them will resolutely separate from the team it has followed for many years, and fly to the other half.And, from then on, until the death of each other, there will be no separation or betrayal.

Almost every pair of swans my uncle remembers has passed such a long test. They believe that only the love obtained in this way is worth cherishing and possessing.Uncle said, compared to human beings who often break up indifferently because of trivial matters, isn't the swan reaching a supreme state in love?How can this kind of loyalty and belief be compared to the self-proclaimed most emotional human being?

Thinking of many women I know, when surrounded by a love, they are not satisfied.They always compare their own half with others' half, and the result of the comparison is only disappointment.Because, there will always be a handsome, gentle and considerate man who is richer than her boyfriend and will appear on the road of love.They pick and choose, and in the end, they often find that the one they lost at first is their favorite.Even if they are combined with each other, the love that was originally believed to last forever will often become full of holes and cannot be cleaned up because of trivial matters, work, personality, and separation.

Therefore, we often complain that love is too fragile. Don't you know that the one who is really fragile is actually ourselves.Our hearts, like fragile porcelain, will shatter if there is a slight bump on the road of love.And the plant of love raised in the porcelain will also wither and die because of this.

So we have to keep love on the solid earth.Only the land can make the roots of love go down hard and down again.No matter how far apart we are, no matter how long the time is, the roots of love will always be vibrant, tenacious and persistent.

And the one that can go through time is the eternal love that is most worthy of our lifetime.

Flowers are blooming on both sides of the strait.

They knew each other when they were young.It was the campus in the rain in June, the papaya was ripening, and the magnolia was blooming.He saw her come over with a book full of arms, with a charming smile on the corner of her mouth, and was suddenly amazed at her beauty.He, who was always shy, stood in front of her and said, hi, hello.

That year, he was 17 and she was 16, which was the most beautiful time in youth, but at the moment of falling in love, they knew how to part.He had already been recommended to study at a university in Beijing. He had nothing to do, so he followed his father to this school to go through the formalities of resignation.For only one week, he came to see her every day.Almost took a lifetime of good, to her.When she was in class, he looked at her with a slight smile under the lilac tree behind the classroom; the 10 minutes between classes were almost fought over, the two of them faced each other, didn't talk much, just looked at each other with a smile, helping each other. The other party brushed off the petals on the neck, then closed their eyes slightly, pressed their foreheads against each other, and listened to each other's breathing. It seemed that they would keep this love in each other's hearts forever.

On the way from her home to school, when he walked with her hand in hand for the 28th time, he said goodbye to her with great difficulty.But then, he said, it will be September next year, and we will meet again in Beijing.She smiled and burst into tears, then nodded firmly to him.

A year later, she finished her college entrance examination, but she did not enter a university in Beijing, but stayed in this city full of lilacs.Holding all the letters he wrote to her in the past year, she walked for a long time on the campus where the autumn wind was picking up, and finally wrote to him.There are only a few short words, saying: I will wait for you.The day after the letter was sent, she received another letter from him, which was very thin. She hesitated a little, but opened it anyway.It is also a few short words: waiting for you, a lifetime.

At that time the train was very slow, and it took three days to travel from her city to Beijing.They can only meet each other during the summer vacation every year.Once they had a small quarrel, said harsh words to each other, and stopped seeing each other during the holidays.But the moment the letter was sent, they all regretted it, and immediately rushed to the train station to buy tickets to the other city.It was only after arriving at each other's schools that I learned from my classmates that their trains passed by each other at a certain moment.They stood under their favorite paulownia tree and said silently in their hearts: In this life, this love is all they need.

Three years later, he was sent by the government to study in France, and there were only a few places in the country. He insisted on giving up and going to work in her city.His father threatened him by severing the relationship between father and son, and his mother also shed tears every day.It was the 80s when the personal resume was extremely important. If he gave up studying abroad, there would be a gray mark on his resume.In the future, even his parents will be condemned by the unit leaders.She knew it, and it was still a short letter to him, saying, I will wait for you in this life.

In this sentence, he reluctantly set foot on a foreign land.During the three years of studying abroad, he gave her all the money he earned from working part-time.And she started to work, she didn't have much money, but with the dream of flying to see him once, she desperately saved money.Before she had saved enough money, he returned from abroad.But they learned mercilessly that his job had been fixed by the school, and he had no choice but to stay in Beijing.He tried to resign, but all he got was a warning from the leader.He is the main force of the school's scientific research department, and the knowledge he has learned can only be used here.She wanted to leave her city again and again and go to Beijing to find him, but neither her seriously ill mother nor her young brother could let her leave so resolutely.

They just dragged it down year after year, and he could only come over during the holidays.I still write letters, every day. Even the postman who delivers the letter knows how urgent it is for them to receive the letter, so every time a letter comes, it will be delivered to them as quickly as possible.Before they were tired of this marathon love, the parents of both parties came to dissuade them.They made up their minds, waited for his unit, allocated him a house, and brought her mother and younger brother to Beijing, so that he and her could never be separated for the rest of their lives.

(End of this chapter)