When she was seventeen years old, Lin tide wrote "I want to go see the sea" on the back of a piece of paper.
At the age of twenty-eight, she met Chen Mo at a blind date corner. He said, "I don't have much ability," and she said, "Me too."
At the age of thirty-five, she turned the Kanhai Fund into her son's bilingual kindergarten tuition.
When I was sixty years old, the day after I booked my flight, my son called me: "Mom, help us take care of the kids."
In front of the seventy-five-year-old hospital bed, she clutched the yellowed draft paper in the iron box, and the sound of the tide when she was seventeen years old could be heard outside the window.
Later, while sorting out his belongings, his son found a line of small pencil writing:
"The sea is yearning, and you are the return port. I used the dream of seeing the sea to move into the world with you."
I kept thinking: This article has been revised since the end of 2025 until now. When can I get rid of the problem of constant revision? Very angry, very angry! From the initial writing to revision and revision of this article, the number of words has been reduced by 10,000 words. After reading the last version and putting it up, I feel empty in my heart. I want to ask myself, why do you want to modify Lin tide's life again and again? Is this really her, the one you want and are satisfied with? At this moment, I knew that I had missed the best version of content, and what Lin tide wanted me to show you, her life. One of my worst habits in revision is to revise the original document, so that after revising it thirty or forty times, the content of the first version can no longer be found. When I start writing the article later, I won't change anything except for typos, incorrect sentences, and unreasonable content. Finally, I apologize to Xixi. I am sorry for repeatedly revising the content and experience of your life, but I think this is the best ending after all.
Xixi, I hope you can grow up by the sea and be with the sea in your next life.
Reading tips:
BE does not equal tragedy. Lin tide's life is complete: marriage, children, family, and love. She exchanged her dream of "going to see the sea" for another life scenery. This exchange is not a failure, but the real life trajectory of most ordinary people - choosing responsibility and love between ideals and reality.
Therefore, be here is "the unfinished beauty" and "the perfection in regret."
Intention: In the pull between ideal and reality, see the tenacity and glimmer of ordinary life, and gently reconcile with unfinished dreams and eventually the ordinary but unique self.