The stray dog in my thoughts

Chapter 1

On a certain day of a certain year in a certain place

The girl said that she and the person she likes can't be together now, but she hopes that someday, somewhere, they can start over.

Is it really possible?

When we talk about a certain year, a certain day, and a certain place, we always have a hope, but also a bit of despair. If we can do it now, why wait until a certain year and a certain day?

Who knows what day it is? Sometimes, the time is right, but the place is wrong; the place is right, but the time is wrong; the time and place are both right, but the mood is wrong.

Now she's not free, and she can only hope to start over with him someday, somewhere. Perhaps, when he's free, she won't be; when she's free, it'll be his turn to be free. When they're both free, they'll be in different places and won't meet. If the location were right, they would both be free, but by then, they would both have changed.

Didn't they say "on a certain day, in a certain year, in a certain place"? It turns out that was a spark of hope in a time of despair. I love you, and I deeply believe our fate is not over. Someday, on a certain day, in a certain place, we will meet again. Live well... We say goodbye with tears in our eyes, striving to live on and welcome the moment of our reunion.

Unfortunately, all reunions are more beautiful in imagination than in reality.

The two people, longing to reunite, had each fallen in love with someone else. Until one day, in another place, they met again, and only then did they remember the promise they had made. Happiness was always overwhelmed by longing.

Taiwanese writer Hsiao Yeh wrote the lyrics to this song in his novel *Love Liberation*. I found them very moving, so I copied them down—

Why is the feeling of happiness always overwhelmed by longing?

Why is it that the promises we desire are only brushed aside with a smile?

What does physical intimacy matter if you can't have someone's soul?

If you can't have forever, why stay together forever?

You can relive your first love, but you can't relive your regrets.

You can repeat your regrets, but you can't repeat your greatest love.

The feeling of happiness is often overwhelmed by longing, because longing can sometimes be bitter.

A promise can only be glossed over with a smile, because he doesn't want to lie. Not wanting to lie, he can only use a smile to replace a promise.

Without a soul, intimate moments become ugly, but why can some men live without a soul?

Sometimes, being together forever doesn't mean it's eternal. The person he's thinking about might be someone else entirely.

The feeling of first love might return, but you'd better not fall in love with the wrong person again. Repeated regret is too frustrating.

After wisdom comes, it doesn't mean you can start over. There's only one true love. No matter where you are in the world, there's only that one person.

Are you happy today? Has the feeling of happiness been overwhelmed by longing? When you hear a promise, can you only smile? Just believe it.

A twenty-year-old girl fell in love with a man eighteen years her senior, divorced, and with two children. He told her he loved her deeply and even asked her to live with him. However, four months later, he broke up with her. He said she was too young and not right for him. He has now returned to his ex-girlfriend.

When they broke up, he said he would never disappear. He would always be there for her when she was down. However, she received an email from him yesterday saying that they should stop contacting each other.

She was heartbroken. All her friends told her that the man was playing with her and that he didn't love her at all. But she said she was sure he had loved her. She could feel his love in the way he looked at her. Shouldn't she trust her own feelings?

Since that's the case, just believe it.

Whether he ever loved you or not is irrelevant to your friends, but it's very important to you. So why don't you trust yourself? Believing you've been loved is always better than believing you were played with emotionally.

Jus

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