Three bowls of thin beef brisket noodles on demand: Lin Yilian "Only Live Once"

I haven't played Cantonese songs for a long time. Today I suddenly remembered an old song published in 1987. "Only Live Once" by Lin Yilian.

This song is the theme song of a Japanese drama " Dancing Horse " broadcast on TVB Jade Channel in 1987. Jumping Horse tells the story of Japan's first female reporter, Ono Ziguling. Gu Ling grew up in a samurai family before and after the Meiji Restoration in Japan. After she graduated from elementary school at the age of fourteen, her family arranged for her to get married at the age of fifteen. But Gu Ling was reluctant to accept her family's arrangement. With the encouragement of missionary Matsunami-sensei, she was admitted to Sendai Girls' High School. After a series of struggles, she finally got her wish and became the first female journalist in Japan.

I was just a junior high school student myself when I watched Jumping Horses for the first time. Not all of the storyline can be understood. In particular, Japanese dramas are characterized by a large number of episodes, and the progress of the plot is relatively slow. A lot of times I miss a lot of story details because of my lack of patience. After a long time, my memory of this story began to blur. But I still remember that I was disappointed when I saw that Gu Ling's husband was not Teacher Songlang. After all, the girl's feelings at that time always had a romantic longing for the teacher-student relationship.

I think of this song today and want to play it here on demand, mainly because I was moved by Feng Jinghui's lyrics. I listened to this song when I was a student and only thought of it as an inspirational song. However, seeing that there are more and more social rules and regulations, personal life choices, especially women's life choices, moral kidnapping and emotional blackmail are everywhere today, and the lyrics of this song are more worthy of scrutiny:

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The cold rain accompanies the irony of the world

like telling me not to try again

Trends are made by people, rebellion is useless

A heart still persists

I missed a few times and I was sad many times

But make a mistake, change it again, try again

Even if I lose this time or not

Tomorrow I will roll up my ambitions again

Survive only once

You can't go back if you want to regret it

Do your best to make your own meaning in this life

Write down my poems in the time

Survive even once

I am also willing to continue to try regardless of the wind and rain

Whether it is success or failure, who can predict the fate

Only know how to live once

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What can you get the gist of this song? In 1987, I heard inspiration and struggle. Today, what I heard was rebellious, persistently rebellious.