No one can truly understand what another person is going through unless they have experienced it themselves. He Luoluo is a single mother raising a child with depression. Just past the age of forty, she has already lived through a dramatic first half of her life. The diagnosis of moderate-to-severe depression in her daughter Zimu, at just seventeen, nearly breaks her. She gives in to the torment of fate, losing all hope.
Having made one wrong choice after another, He Luoluo missed out on her first love. For more than twenty years afterward, she searched for someone else while carrying his shadow with her. Her impulsive, hasty decisions made her life increasingly difficult. By missing one person, she lost an entire lifetime.
As she stays by her daughter's side through recovery, memories of the storms she once weathered return amid tears and pain, and unexpectedly become her salvation. She remembers the understanding her parents once showed her, the warmth offered by someone she hated, and how she overcame obstacles she once thought impossible. She makes peace with herself, slowly lets go of her resentment and fixation on reality, opens her daughter's heart, and rediscovers the love that first made her a mother.
Hard work may not change the outcome, but it can keep you from having regrets. With companionship and sincerity, acceptance and understanding, wait for them to come down to earth. Someday, that beautiful day will come.
Written for you, if you too carry regrets in your heart.
