- Thank you for sharing your story. Hats off to your dad, ... and you.
It is indeed an epitome of a whole generation, for many of us.
The hardship, beginning with the saddening memory of the past, took a strong and steady turn and landed gracefully in your life, in your mind, with tears, ... and with wealth.
There is something in the story that is not only deeply moving, but also with tons of positive gravity. It is what they call 'dignity' that holds one up to endure. It is what they call 'love' that one lives by to grow and to mature.
In the heat of Donne here, let me borrow some verses from him here:
"So let us melt, and make no noise,
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move."
...
"We can die by it, if not live by love,
and if unfit for tombs and hearse
our legend be, it will be fit for verse;
and if no piece of chronicle we prove,
We'll build in sonnets pretty rooms;
As well a well-wrought urn becomes
The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs,
And by these hymns, all shall approve
Us canonized for love;"
Please share with us, the poem your father will write after receiving your birthday gift for him.
feiming wrote:
To be honest with you, it is heart wrenching to write this story, sometimes my eyes are filled with tears while writing or even thinking about it.why our fathers haven't written too much about their ordeal? because it is too painful for them to do so, and they are also afraid of the potential trouble if they write.
I haven't shown this piece to my father yet, but next month,i will show it to him as a birthday gift.
我一直想为什么他们那辈人，特别是文人，写自己那辈子，那时代的那么少？这个故事读着心都疼。不知您写着疼不疼？不知令尊读了感觉如何。
不是没有道理的。
rzp