Wedding Saying (Sister's Wedding Speech)

Thank you, everyone, for attending this wedding reception tonight.

I've been putting off thinking about this speech tonight until very late.

The topic of "sister" is too big for me to start with. When I didn't even understand the identity of "brother", I stood on this stage and told everyone about my sister, a person only I can understand. The "brother's perspective" seen.

From childhood to adulthood, my sister and I have very opposite personalities: I am quiet and she is active; I am timid and she is playful; I am inferior and she is confident; I am pessimistic and she is cheerful; It is difficult to choose. Two people with opposite personalities have spent the entire childhood and adolescence together.

The starry sky we have seen has changed from the light green luminous star stickers on the ceiling of the bedroom to the sky full of stars looking up at the fields in different places; we have borrowed many books in the library, and we have longed for deserts, pyramids and all kinds of things together. Magical distance.

Common adventures and different personalities have made us a pair of "siblings" who can empathize. The so-called empathy is the ability to understand each other and respond to each other's emotions. I always feel that she is another me in parallel time and space.

This tacit understanding of empathy has often become my lifesaver when my life is at a low ebb.

When I was broken in love and depressed, she would take me to the shopping mall, add everything from underwear, shirts to shoes and socks, make a makeover, and then say to me, "This is not so good! It's much more handsome. Remember. Don't forget to iron your clothes!"

When I couldn't tell what the dinner was last night, she would take me to a restaurant I didn't know, order a few dishes skillfully, and then tell me, "In the future, I can eat pizza from this restaurant in Central, and go to Tsim Sha Tsui. You can drink the milk tea here, and across the street from your company, there is a delicious Hainanese chicken rice."

She would take me to a party when I hadn't seen a real person for too long, and introduce me to my friends, "Hey, he's my brother. He doesn't have a girlfriend yet."

She knows that I like to write, but also knows that I am ashamed to show it to everyone, so she will post for me, start a blog for me, and even pass my articles to her Chinese teacher, just to encourage me to continue writing go down.

Her existence reminded me of another possibility in life. She made me believe that I could become a better person, and more importantly, she convinced me that even if I did not become a better person in the end, She will still be here.

I also want to take this opportunity to talk about our father. Parents are where all sibling relationships start, and the reason I have a great sister is ultimately because we have a great dad.

If someone asked me to describe my dad's parenting style, I would say he was a shepherd. What do shepherds usually do? Play the shepherd flute.

The shepherd basically doesn't pay much attention to his sheep. He just sits in the shade of a tree, letting the lambs eat grass and fight with each other. To such an extent, the sheep even think they are wild.

That's it, the shepherd quietly grew up with the sheep, until they grew up, looked back one day, thought about it, and suddenly realized: By the way, our grassland has never been short of grass, and there have never been wolves.

Thanks to my father for giving me and my sister a very open and inclusive grassland, allowing us to make mistakes and grow up. I also thank my father, consciously or unconsciously, for developing the habit of reading and writing that my sister and I love, allowing us to slow down and engage in in-depth dialogue , And create a full inner world for yourself.

Tonight, my sister is about to start a new chapter in her life, and I am so happy that she has met a soul mate worthy of a lifetime.

Congratulations.

I once heard a saying: "When you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, you want the rest of your life to start quickly." Mr. K, the rest of my sister's life is up to you. I hope you can take good care of her in the future, a hundred times, a thousand times better than she treats me.

I wish you a long life and happiness.

younger brother

09.10.2022
(This article is the original manuscript of the author’s live speech at his sister’s wedding)