Silent Folds

This essay uses an old school uniform as a guide to unfold the silent grievances in the original family. The mother's barbed words, the father's heavy silence, the suffocation at the dinner table, the crushed diary and secrets constitute the delicate pain of growing up. But at the end, the twisted scarf in the suitcase and the secretly stuffed motion sickness medicine reveal the clumsy tenderness of family affection. The author finally understands that those folds that cannot be smoothed out contain the unspoken love and estrangement between two generations, and he can finally learn to reconcile with the past and illuminate the shadows.