I, go my own way

When Momoko was twenty-four, TV news covered the Olympics in Tokyo.

For players from all over the world who came to Tokyo, she felt that a new era was coming.

After graduating from high school, he worked in the Agricultural Cooperative Association through his father's help.

The mother arranges the blind date, gets engaged, and sets the wedding date.

She can imagine her future life path.

Just like grandmothers and mothers, managing housework, having children, busy farming...

Suddenly I felt that my life in the mountains was too boring, and I decided to go to Tokyo to experience the life of women in the new era.

So she ran away from marriage and went to a strange Tokyo alone.

She works as a waiter in a restaurant. Although she is lonely, she is free to be herself.

Colleagues would laugh at her accent – calling herself Nguyen Ah.

That's okay, before speaking, be careful not to speak the accent.

One night, she heard the long-lost local accent, and took the initiative to talk to the guest who spoke the dialect. It turned out that he was a fellow villager.

Zhou Zao left his hometown and worked hard in Tokyo.

The two fell in love, got married, had children, bought a house, and lived a happy life.

However, Peach prepares three meals for the family.

When my husband goes to work, when my children go to school, and when I do housework, I think about my current life.

That's why she fled from her hometown in the first place, sigh, that's how life is.

Time flies, daughter Naomi and son Zhengsi grow up and leave home to work.

After her husband died of a myocardial infarction, Taozi began to live alone.

In the blink of an eye, she has been in Tokyo for fifty years, and she is already a seventy-four-year-old Momoko.

Naomi is married and has 2 children. She comes here once a week to help with shopping.

She likes to listen to her granddaughter Shayaka's twittering voice.

Since the last time, she has not promised to lend Naomi.

Naomi complained that she was biased and only loved her brother, so she was defrauded of so much money by the fraud group.

Taozi felt distressed for the 2.5 million, and even more distressed that if Zhimei accused her, her face would not look good.

Looking at Zhimei's profile face, fine lines at the corners of her eyes, and obvious nasolabial folds, she was surprised that Zhimei was also getting old.

The cruelty of the traces of the years made Taozi tremble and speechless.

Naomi was dissatisfied, and she didn't come for two weeks.

Taozi wrote a shopping list in the deserted house, and took the bus to buy daily necessities in batches.

Eating a simple meal, listening to the whirring of the wind through the room, mice running on the ceiling.

Listening and listening, she heard her younger self talking in dialect with her grandmother.

After getting married, he jumped on the low table because of the cockroaches, and his husband Zhou Zao helped fight the cockroaches with slippers.

Discuss with your child about going there for an outing and prepare a bento meal.

The lonely grandma Taozi spoke to herself, recalling the old days.

Going to the hospital to see a doctor is not because of physical discomfort, but by returning to the doctor to determine the date and day of the week.

After waiting for a long time, she read a book.

The total distraction looked at the familiar faces on the left and right, and began to play the inner theater again.

At the end of the ten-minute consultation, it was fine, and there was no Alzheimer's disease.

Leaving the hospital and returning the book to the library proves that her memory is still first-class.

Taozi went up the mountain to sweep the tomb of her husband, struggling to walk the hillside.

Peach listened to the voice pouring out, and smiled.

She smiled and took the next step.

Don't be afraid, there are many peaches, and peaches of different ages walk forward with her.

Peaches leaned on Peaches' shoulders, pulled her hand, and pushed her back.

For a while before, for a while after, lively and lively along the way.

After walking this long slope, it was almost time to reach her husband's tomb.

When they arrived at the cemetery, Taozi did not join hands to worship.

She just leaned against the tombstone and looked at the sky with many peaches.

One day, when her granddaughter Sha Yejia came to see her alone, Taozi was startled.

Shayaka said that her mother taught her to take the bus, so she can come to visit her grandmother more often in the future.

Taozi decided to take advantage of the good weather to take Shayajia to the city for a walk around and eat snacks.

"I, Go My Own Way" is written in the first person by Mamaw Peach.

Monologue in the day-to-day life of living alone.

Momoko, who originally thought that getting old is equal to losing and enduring loneliness.

Begin to understand the fun that can only be experienced by a person.

In her twilight years, what she enjoys is total freedom and the most lively loneliness.

I, go my own way

Author: Chisako Wakatake

Translated by: Lin Peijin

Publisher: Yuanshen

Publication date: 2019/06/01