Spring is still long

These days she thinks a lot about Lan - her husband, although they still interact every day, they are always in two different worlds. Lan is handsome, calm, and mature. When they got married, Lan's family background was "average" because he was just a worker in a mechanical workshop. Meanwhile, Hoa was the only child of a civil servant in a provincial agency. After graduating from university, she returned to work in the city. The difference in family background, professional qualifications, and work status... caused Hoa and Lan's love to face fierce opposition from Hoa's family. She had to shed many tears to convince her parents to agree. Touched by Hoa's sincere love for her, Lan tried to do everything he could to make up for his wife's losses. Every day, after work, he often took the opportunity to go to the market and cook so that Hoa could have time to relax and rest. On holidays and anniversaries, even though he could not afford to buy expensive gifts, Lan always bought flowers for his wife and cooked some of Hoa's favorite dishes. Although life was not yet prosperous or abundant, laughter always filled their small family.

Last Tet, Hoa went to a class reunion. Meeting her high school classmates, Hoa suddenly felt like she was at a disadvantage, not like many of her classmates. Stories about family, husband and children were freely told to each other. From then on, Hoa knew how big Linh's house was, and how beautiful Thanh's husband had just given her a "four-wheeled" motorbike, and Hong, Tam... today she was traveling to famous places in the country, tomorrow she was vacationing in Thailand, Singapore... "That's how life is really lived!". Thinking about the small one-story house with "common" and old amenities, Hoa sighed deeply.

Since that day, Hoa often said things that rubbed salt into her husband's heart: "Look at other people's children, everywhere they go, there are cars to pick them up. Unlike my child, going to school, he has to expose himself to the rain, sun, wind and dust on the street. It's really different between the director's child and the poor worker's child!", "A girl's life is lucky to marry a rich husband!"... His wife's words made Lan speechless. Gradually, he talked to his wife less and less.

Then the intimacy between them became bland and infrequent. Every day, where Lan went, what he did, what he ate... Hoa didn't pay attention. She only knew that he went to work early and came home late.

Today, Hoa walked around the market, intending to buy something delicious to improve her child's health. By accident, Hoa bumped into a man's bicycle, causing the bouquet of flowers hanging from the handlebars to fall, breaking many of the flowers. Seeing her flustered and apologizing, the man smiled: "It's okay, it's okay... I'll buy another bouquet. Those are the flowers I bought for my wife on her birthday!" Hoa was silent, suddenly realizing that happiness seemed to have slipped away from her. She asked herself, in the end, did she want her husband to live in luxury but with cold feelings, or just a simple life but loving each other like before? Hoa stood still and thought for a long time before suddenly remembering what she needed to buy...

Hoa walked around the market. Today, she bought more than usual to prepare dishes for her husband. As she walked, Hoa silently promised herself that she would change, that she would warm her heart to know how to share and love. Her heart was as happy as Tet when she remembered that life still had many springs…

THU DO