Mother ⁽⁵⁾

The school had to register student status and create student files; in the section for important family members, information on parents and other close relatives had to be entered. When I filled in my mother's information, in the "details" column I wrote the words "deceased."…

October 18th, Saturday. I came home from school. That night as I slept at home, I had a dream - I dreamed of my mother again. This dream was basically similar to the two in September: still the scene of my mother struggling in pain…

Today is my son's eleventh birthday. On May 13, 2005, my son was born at Peking University Third Hospital. That day was the day my mother smiled most brightly; when she saw her plump, fair grandson in the maternity ward, she beamed from ear to…

A note: this is an essay I wrote in 2012, a little over a month before my mother's death. Today, for certain reasons, I happened to reread it; after reading I fell into long thought. I have decided to repost the original essay as it…

Today is Qixi Festival, and it is also my mother's birthday; she has been gone for more than three years. These years I have been constantly negating myself, destroying all my former beliefs, and my outlook on life and values have utterly changed. Now I…