Find answers in books: about habits, adaptations, life and death

Would love to be part of the community #10MyFavoriteBooks, but I ended up picking only 3.

#01 "People who don't like to wash dishes"

This is my favorite storybook as a child, and the protagonist is an old gentleman who doesn't like to wash dishes. He hates washing dishes. When the sink is full, he puts the used dishes on the bookcase and sofa. When you run out of clean dishes, take soap dishes and ashtrays to eat, and use flowerpots to drink water. Finally, all the utensils were used up, and the old man couldn't think of new tricks. It suddenly rained heavily outside. The old man moved all the utensils to the truck and let the heavy rain clean up!

In my memory, the story ends here. I've been blaming my laziness and my bad habit of always making little smarts on this story for years. As everyone knows, last month, he picked up this book and turned it over again, and the ending was "so he decided to wash the dishes after dinner."

#02 The Wallflower Boy

For a while, I was obsessed with so-called coming-of-age movies, not youth campus movies, but more like exploring the various discomforts of adolescence. Later, I found out that maybe I have been refusing to grow up, so I was stuck in the same problem for a long time. When watching these kinds of movies, especially "The Wallflower Boy", I felt understood while licking my wounds. "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" is a typical coming-of-age work. I watched the movie before reading the novel. One of my favorite conversations in the book goes like this:

Sam : Why do I and everyone I love pick people who treat us like we're nothing?

Charlie: We accept the love we think we deserve.

#03 "After I Leave"

At her daughter's begging, mother Suzy Hopkins wrote this book to tell her daughter how to deal with life after losing her mother. My mother said that on the first day of her death, she came to be a fajita that needs to cut onions (cry by the way), and on the fourth day, she helped her mother write her obituary, and her mother also humorously reminded her of things that don't need to be mentioned in the obituary. The mother also told her daughter that she will have her first birthday without a mother and that she can try to find someone who can replace her. When I miss you, I can still chat with my mother in my heart. Mom gave her own insights on having children, getting married, getting along with siblings, and how to face life and death.

I am very close to my mother. I can't imagine how I would live without my mother. I bought this book as a preview of my mother's departure.

The final author of the book says,

Although my advice is comforting to you, you already know all the answers and you don't really need this book.

 These three books are, to a certain extent, the epitome of my current stage: learning to establish rules and habits, surviving the throes of socialization, finding one's tribe, and facing birth, aging, sickness and death.