A World That Moves Half a Beat Too Slow

There are people in this world who are talented and walk in a hurry, while there are also people who are clumsy and slow and take every word seriously. Seven-year-old Chen An is a child left behind by the world. What others see as regular writing seems to him to be fighting and running around; he sees the rhythm that others follow casually, but he can't catch up even with all his strength. Everyone said he was stupid, slow, and couldn't keep up. No one saw that the child with empty hands and no certificate secretly wrote down the tenderness of the forty-two people in the class with a worn-out draft book. He remembers who gave him candy, who smiled at him, who helped him, and who praised him. Everyone in the world is chasing results, speed, and future, but he is the only one who is clumsily catching all the small kindnesses in the world. It turns out that a child who is slow is not unable to keep up with the world. It's just that his tenderness lasts longer than anyone else. Those who run fast rush to the future, while those who run slowly catch all the tenderness.