Our parents were once young, gorgeous and beautiful

When I visited my grandma’s house on the second day of the Lunar New Year, I saw an old photo album, which contained photos of my mother’s five sisters from childhood to marriage and childbirth, recording the life history of each of my grandma’s children. Among them, What impressed me the most was a single photo of my mother and a wedding photo of her and her father.

My taciturn mother rarely mentioned the past. This was the first time I saw photos of her when she was young.

That innocent and ignorant girl really made me unable to connect with the mother in front of me. I just felt so beautiful and beautiful. Wearing a red round-neck coat, she stood quietly next to a cluster of gorgeous red roses. Her clear eyes looked straight ahead, giving people a clean and simple beauty, and a peaceful look of time.

And that simple wedding photo with a red background, although solemn and full of ceremony, still made me feel the vigorous tension of youth. My mother’s hairstyle has long been changed to fashionable curls, and her round face has a touch of rouge, while my father is close to his mother, his eyes are bright, and he looks young and energetic.

I couldn't help but sigh: Time is really a butcher's knife. How did these two beautiful people become older and older under the erosion of life, and they were no longer what they used to be?

When I was young, I never thought about this problem. My mother took us four sisters to live a difficult life in a foreign land. The only thing that impressed me was that my mother had a very bad temper. She would scold us severely if anything happened that did not go her way. I can often think of the scene where we stood in line to be scolded by my mother, and I always couldn't figure out why her temper was so grumpy. And my father is rarely seen. He comes back only once every few days. I have never even observed his appearance carefully, let alone basic contact such as holding hands and hugging. I always feel strange and far away. Far away.

As we grew up, the situation improved. We went to high school and college one after another, and my mother’s temper actually improved. Maybe it was because the financial pressure was reduced, or maybe it was because I saw hope in life. I remember very clearly that my mother suddenly changed for the better during a semester when I was in college. She has become gentle and patient, and can express her care for her children. Although I don't know why, I am still happy about it. Perhaps, due to the polishing of time or chance encounters, people will always change in an instant.

Later, under the heavy pressure of life, my parents worked hard and tired all day long in order to maintain the life of the family, and became older and older. Their hard work and sweat were spilled on countless dry lands, and their sleepy eyes I don’t know how many dark nights I have passed through. The face in front of us that has been carved by time makes it difficult for us to associate it with beauty, let alone imagine that our parents once had a splendid youth and a wonderful life just like us.

Who says otherwise? In fact, our parents were once young and beautiful just like us. Just like every young girl who loves beauty in her prime, her mother still tried her best to let her beauty bloom in an era of material scarcity. Not only did she diligently clean herself up, but she also had the most basic things at the time. Makeup and blush; not to mention dad, like all young people who are eager to express themselves, he wears fashionable bell-bottom pants and has a popular afro hairdo, which cannot be more fashionable.

In fact, parents, like us, have also been bathed in love. Although people born in the 1970s are conservative, this does not prevent a beautiful relationship from happening. My parents were introduced to each other by people in the village, and they started a new chapter in their lives under the guidance of fate. It is said that at that time when everyone lived in cave dwellings, in addition to my father, my mother also took a fancy to my father's very grand bungalow, and my father should be Take a fancy to my mother's beauty and ability. So, even though we were a mountain away, my father would come to visit me after a while, helping my grandfather with work and seeing my mother at the same time. I really want to say that love at that time was really hard. Not only did you have to work hard, but you also had to be reserved.

In fact, our parents, like us, also longed for the distant place. I felt this during a chat with my father when he came back from a shopping trip. At that time, my father took a job that was relatively far away, from Shaanxi to Shanghai. Although I was in college at that time, I had only heard about Shanghai, an international metropolis, let alone visited it. He chatted with interest about what he had experienced along the way, and slowly started to talk about the quality of the city. He said that Weihai, Shandong Province is a good place, close to the sea and with good air, which is quite good. At that time, I was thinking that my father had never been to the beach. Although he grew up in the mountains and had seen rivers, it was something different after all. At that time, I secretly made up my mind that if I had the opportunity in the future, I would sign up for a tour group for my parents and let them go to a place with sea, maybe Qingdao, Weihai, or Sanya, Hainan...

I always think about how my 18-year-old mother and my 20-year-old father took on the burden of life again and again, and how they raised us who were desperate for food. They were so young and unarmed working hard in the world, How difficult it is. Fortunately, everything has come to an end. Fortunately, we are all stable and healthy now.

We may not be able to stop the passage of time and the aging of our parents; we cannot predict all the unexpected events in the future. We only hope that while our parents are still alive, we will not use willfulness and excuses to ignore our parents’ feelings. Address the needs of parents.

They once exchanged their young bodies for our lives. They once gave up the easy entertainment in life to maintain our basic life. They once ushered in our growth with their unrepentant efforts.