Translated…
It’s really rare, that a man started crying like hell at a wedding, especially when he’d rarely shown his emotions from a day-to-day basis? Could it be, that he’s unwilling to let go of his lover from a past life? “No, I’m just, very happy, that my daughter had found a man she loves and married.” He put his arms around his wife’s shoulders, came to our table, and offered a toast to a group of us, all ladies at the table, “Thanks to all of you, my wife’s best friends, you’d been, a lot of help.”
Wen-Hua was a former classmate of her community college, they’d known one another for over forty years, they’re closer than sisters. After she married, she’d married a man who works in the computer industries, who has a great bright future ahead of him, afterwards, she’d had a son and a daughter, she’d stayed at home, kept the household well, learned to cook a variety of cuisines, making the baked goods, and, whenever she’d hollered, we would all become her lab rats willingly. She has a long rectangle dinner table, ten people can fit, the seats were spacious, we’d called it, the “Besties table”, and the seats were almost, filled up completely.
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Wen-Hua’s cherished son is tall and handsome, is the man on his school campus, once he’d rode up to the northeast corners to rush on the freeways at night, got into a crash, and died at the scene. Wen-Hua was completely shattered, she’d started crying all day long, and, there was, no more freshly cooked meals on the table, or the aromatic baked goods either, the oven was forgotten, in that corner, as her husband and daughter returned home hungry, she’d not noticed, just bucked down, and scrubbed the kitchenware hard, like she’d wanted to, shed a layer of her own skin off. Her daughter saw her like that, and felt heart wrenching, her husband didn’t know what to do, so, he’d called us all over.
The group of us, best friends are all here, and, we’d started, talking, like it was, usual. “The dead is gone, and there are, those who are left behind, do let go, of that persistence.” “Have you considered, how much your loved ones would hurt, seeing you like this?”, “You’d already lost a son, would you want to lose your other daughter too?”, we’d started, saying these things over and over again to her, god knows how many times, and, don’t know how much time went by, and she’d finally, regained her stance, and started, focusing her attention on the only daughter she has left, and started, getting choosy over the boyfriends her daughter took home, said, that she will NOT allow her daughter to date or marry some poor guy who rides a motorcycle, waited until the guy saved up enough money, bought a car, she’d started picking on how her soon-to-be son-in-law is slightly shorter than her daughter, how he’d become, somewhat bald, how he’s just an unimportant employee at some smaller-scale firm………she’d kept picking and choosing, her daughter almost left their home, and her husband was stuck between the mother and daughter, having a hard time to appease both sides.
And, the group of her best friends were once again, called, and, we’d started, using our persuasions, “Nobody’s perfect!” “Don’t be so shortsighted, so long as he’s kind to your daughter, that, is what’s most important!” “What are you, a member of the Appearances? Can a pretty man be relied on?” Wen-Hua called her daughter over and asked her, her daughter started tearing up and said, “Mom, I really do love you, but, he’s the man I want to marry, so, please accept him, and I shall be thankful to you for the rest of my life. I promise you, I will, live happily ever after.” And finally, Wen-Hua finally caved in. And, the group of us, her best friends, became, the biggest group of matchmakers.
And so, this, is on supporting their friend through her hardest hour, and being there for her, as she made the life decisions, and, it’s great, that this woman can have this huge supportive network of friends who are always there beside her, supporting her.
Life, the Obstacle Course 