August 1
Edited English version based on the Chinese original. Read the Chinese original
This may be the most painful thing I have experienced since the college entrance exam. I slept and got up again, but after waking, I still felt that dull ache. If I had to describe it with a lyric, it would be: “A beautiful bubble, like fireworks that vanish in an instant.” Right now, G.E.M.’s song “Bubble” captures how I feel better than anything else. I can hear in it a pain like mine, one she went through years ago.
Today was actually incredibly full, and time seemed to stretch. Tomorrow is Sunday. It all feels a little dreamlike. Then again, what does not feel that way sometimes?
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