2021-08-14

Reaching the end of the summer, it becomes cooler and cooler these days. Every time there may be a heavy shower, the public warning system raises serious alarm in advance, for the climate which we used to be familiar with has changed a lot. We have to take necessary precautions. The world seems to be unfriendly for human beings to live in. Pandemic, storm, typhoon, heat wave, wildfire... numerous catastrophes come in turn. All these are the most furious ever. We humans are suffering punishments, for what we did to the environment and to each other. I think we need to wake up from the sound dream of being the top of food chain and do something to change. 

We celebrated Stone's 3 years old birthday last night by sharing a inviting and delicious cake together. Stone was too busy helping himself to the toy excavators to eat any cake. Then Donkey and I accompany him to the sandpit in a nearby shopping mall and he played for 3 whole hours there until the staff member said it was time to close. It was the precious family time of the three of us, mundane but romantic. 

I've forgot some of the previous days when Stone was still a baby, a toddler. How much I had suffered became unfamiliar to me. Yet I'm sure I never want to go through it once more. I enjoy accompanying a kid to growing up but it takes too much. It's a destiny that we come together in the same family, but ultimately we will lead our lives separately. Donkey is the one who would stay with me longest in the world, not Stone. He will have friends and life of his own in near future. Nonetheless, I will be Stone's best friends until he makes new friends at his age. 

We held a meeting to talk about what we had received from studying the words of X around the centenary celebration. The frequency we take such meetings and the importance they treat X remind me of the so called Culture Revolution. When YY began to speak, I could not resist the temptation to turn away my face. I even wanted to vomit. I don't know if he knew what he was talking about, sheer nonsense. Not any word in his speech was valuable. I don't think it is tolerable for me to stay here with rubbish like YY any more. This is the last year, I told myself again and again. I needn't bear all these since next summer. They'll vanish in my life for good.