I remember seeing a Japanese oil painting when I was in middle school. The title of the painting was "The Season of Dreams". A girl wearing a sea-sleeve-style student uniform, holding a bouquet of white lilies in her hands, stood on the grass of the campus. The girl's pure eyes looked into the distance, as if she was looking forward to the future.
Several female companions surround her closely, and the scene is so vivid that you can hear them singing like little swallows, as if they are congratulating the girl holding the flower...
This painting touched me so deeply at the time that it is still vivid in my mind today, more than 20 years later. It resonated with me, the same dreamy girlhood, the same dreamy season...