Relativity of Life

When he was forty-two years old, Lin Chuan's wife said something to him: "It's not that you did anything wrong. It's that something is missing." He couldn't figure it out. He worked overtime until late at night every day, paid off the loan for his family, took care of his father's health, and gave everything he could. What's missing about him? But the wife moved away anyway. Lin Chuan started to look back. He dug out the family photo album and found that his wife and son were in all the photos, but not him - because he had taken all the photos. He looked through the chat history and found that his wife's messages changed from long to short, from short to "oh" and then disappeared. He heard his son telling others, "My dad is very busy," with a calm tone that sounded like he was describing the weather. Only then did he realize: he had been giving, but he was never present. This is a story about "three selves"—— Lin Chuan in the eyes of others: a stable, reliable man who always has more important things to deal with. Lin Chuan thinks of himself: a husband and father who sacrifices everything for his family and deserves to be understood. The real Lin Chuan: an ordinary person who loves his family but doesn't know how to make his family feel this love. All three versions are true. But no one is all. "The Theory of Relativity" is not a story about infidelity or betrayal, nor is it a story about who is right and who is wrong. He is just an ordinary man who spent most of his life slowly learning one thing: Loving someone is more than just running for them. And to be there for them, really be there.