Her Expressions

S takes a three-month vacation from her work that she has been dedicated herself to for almost over a decade. She takes this interval as a chance to join the course of Japanese learning she has been hoped for over a long time. Now the course has reached its halfway.

For the past one and half month, I’ve watched her study hard and take efforts to strike a balance between her school life, family life, and occasional office work. It has never been easy given that in the past few weeks our whole family was under brutal flu attacks. I have tried my best to assist her to lessen her load both physical and spiritual. Yet perhaps out of exhaustion, we haven’t talked to each other intimately as long as her course lasted.

Yet it’s been only so up to tonight.

Tonight she suddenly dropped by in my study and we enjoyed a happy moment of conversation. Most of the time I was just listening. She happily talked about her classmates, their shared experience both of suffering from hard study and overloaded homeworks, and of taking pleasure in some dumb things they have been done and through.

I watched her facial expressions, so various and glamorous, and felt her happiness and excitement in being a student again. There’s something on her face that will make the moment unforgettable.

Now I start believing that whatever hardship will be over someday as long as people keep faith in love of each other. Sincerely wish her a happier time for the final half part of her course and wish her a life whose felicity will never end.