In Kamakura, there is a stationery store that helps ghostwriters. Every generation of shopkeepers is a woman. As long as there is a commission, it will accept it, even if it is a restaurant menu.
Unknowingly, Hatoko Amamiya became the 11th generation descendant, but the misunderstanding with her grandmother and the fear of starting to live alone in the world made her full of confusion. A letter of condolence to a dead pet, a letter announcing a divorce, a letter of refusal to borrow money, a letter of breakup to a close friend
Each ghost letter is the real life of the guests, and it is also a lesson in life.
As usual, let's put a book review first:
Author: Chai Mi Youyan
In Kamakura, there is a stationery store. The hostess of the stationery store actually does a job as a "ghostwriter", and the stationery is just the "periphery" of the ghostwriter.
Ghostwriting means writing for others. Including writing postcards, signs, and letters. What attracted me most in this book should be the letter written by the heroine Hatoko on behalf of others. After I read the book from beginning to end, I went back and reread the letters I had written on my behalf.
? For the first letter, the client was a lady with an injured leg, who entrusted her to write a letter of condolence and send it to her home with the ceremony. The object of condolence is called Quan Zhisuke. At first, Hatoko thought it was a child, but after seeing the photo in the client's mobile phone, he realized it was a monkey. But the client always referred to him affectionately when describing it¡ªthe child.
So, in the letter written by Hatoko on behalf of the client, there are two sentences¡ª¡ª
in retrospect
Kwonnosuke always has a pair of bright eyes shining
? Heart is like still water
is also very kind to me
Seeing this, I was silent for two seconds. When I saw the back-"Mrs. Shatian even called to thank me, and said to me in tears that the letter of condolence was so well written"-I agreed.
The second letter was even more unexpected. The client asked to write a "Notice of Divorce" to notify all those who attended the wedding by letter of the news of their divorce after fifteen years of marriage. The reason for the divorce was that the wife fell in love with someone else, but the client "does not want my wife to be a bad person alone", "I hope you can also write about the fact that we had a happy married life."
How to write such a letter? Spoiler part of the text of the reply letter in the book¡ª¡ª
? Although we can't stay together until the end of life, we will still silently support each other's second life.
We will be very grateful if you think we have made courageous decisions in pursuit of a happy life.
Although we have decided to take a different life, we still hope to maintain the relationship with you, which is also our common wish.
I hope that one day, I can talk about today with a smile.
It is inevitable to think of Zhou Huimin's statement in the gossip news a few years ago. It was also a rare and wonderful letter witnessed in recent years. Among them, the most frequently quoted sentences are the following:
Ni Zhen and I have known each other since we were young, and we have gone through countless ups and downs together, and we have already honed in a set of art of getting along with each other. One person's problems, two people to fix; one person's setbacks, two people to bear.
?It is similar to the letter of divorce notification written by the heroine at this moment, and it is notified in a letter-do not deny that there was a happy past, and do not disappoint the future with an unknown future.
The third letter was a middle-aged man who entrusted his former lover to write a "very ordinary letter".
They used to be childhood sweethearts, but they didn't get together. Now that he is married and has children, he heard that she has also found his other half and lived a happy life. After more than twenty years, he really wants to greet her. Because when she was young, she liked letters very much, and he would soon be hospitalized for an operation. When he thought seriously about death for the first time, he found that he was still thinking about her.
I don't want to rehabilitate the old, nor do I want to confess, I just want to write an "ordinary letter".
"Writing to her myself, I feel a little sorry for my wife" "I hope it is in a woman's handwriting" "I definitely don't want to destroy her happy life. If her husband sees a private letter written to her in a male handwriting, he will be very upset." care".
Therefore, Jiuzi wrote a very ordinary text message according to her instructions¡ª¡ª
Do you live every day with a smile on your face?
Because it's you, I must be singing happily from time to time.
I am fine.
Recently every weekend,
They all took their lively and lovely daughters who are already in elementary school to climb the mountain together.
I have climbed many mountains with you before, right?
Looking back now, everything has become beautifulEmpathy arrives in an instant.
Obviously you are a single dog! I have never been moved, why would I feel sad about the separation of others?
It may be the pen pal experience when I was a child. I especially like watching letters in film and television dramas and literary works.
In "The Young Pope", the protagonist wrote an unsent love letter to his lover when he was young; in "The First Man in Rome", Marius corresponded with his friends, joked about his political opponents, and loved his country; Zhou Xun's suicide note at the end of "The Wind".
I don't think there is anything like a letter for expressing emotion.
It's really fast to type, and it's too fast to get a reply. Including gifts, too. Nowadays, we often go out on a trip to help relatives and friends buy or pick up souvenirs, and we are all "lazy". Compared with guessing what the other person likes, directly asking the other party what they want is the most energy-saving and the least error-prone. of.
Picking a gift by yourself is easy to overturn. Maybe the other party you bought already has it, or it is not practical at all, or it may even be that the other party doesn't like it, and it will only add trouble to her.
I have recommended the Thai movie "Time Machine" to you before. It is actually about a girl who believes in a life of renunciation. She throws away all the things that are not needed at home. The best friend found out that some of them were given by her before, and then she began to send back all the gifts from "others", which triggered a series of stories.
In fact, when I was a child, I preferred the process of choosing gifts when giving gifts. Gifts are just carriers, and the preparation before sending them and the other party's reaction when they receive them are more important. After that, I really became more and more lazy, or I can't say lazy, but everyone is more and more convenient. There is always nothing wrong with giving girls lipstick and perfume.
The steps of preparing carefully and guessing the other party are omitted. Wouldn't it be nice to just ask the other party what they want?
It is enough to give gifts without mistakes, there is no need to play surprises.
But seriously, it's nice to just ask, and I like it. The joy of receiving gifts hasn't changed, it's just that the joy I had before in the step of "giving" hasn't become a bit routine.
It seems that people become more and more selfish as they get older. I am too lazy to guess what the other person likes, and I am too lazy to make new friends.
It is too troublesome to meet a "new" person. Even a lazy person like me who left a message in the comment area started to find an acquaintance to reply.
When I was in college, I wrote regular emails to my girlfriends every year on their birthdays to recall the little things of the year. After work, I set an alarm clock for blessings at zero o'clock.
Obviously, the relationship has not faded, why is it that you are becoming less and less concerned about interpersonal communication?
The mainstream public opinion environment is also touting that the more mature people are, the more they can get along with themselves. If there are any conflicts in interpersonal communication, most of them are also telling people to be happy alone, and there is no need to wrong themselves.
However, it is impossible to have any things and relationships that are only happy!
And there are no contradictions in the current relationship, I just regret why I am more and more stingy with the expression and dedication of emotions.
After the opening became tighter and tighter, although there was no trouble or pain, happiness seemed to become more and more stagnant.
When I read this book today, I felt inexplicably like a stream flowing gently through my heart.
ah! When I promoted this book, I actually felt a little ashamed that I still like such simple words.
But no matter, my girlfriend¡¯s birthday will be soon, and this year I must tell her again that she has been the most important part of me besides my family since we met in the first year of high school.
I hope that if a friend reads this book, he can also express his feelings to the person he likes.
It's Children's Day, it's not a bad thing to be naive once in a while!
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