In "Dance of Time", Anne Taylor, a famous contemporary novelist, tells the story of Vera, an ordinary person who can count the decisive moments in life with one hand. While taking care of a young woman she has never met before, she finds herself back.
Ticks imitate clocks. The arm is a pointer that swings forward with time, just like a clock hanging on the wall of a primary school classroom, stuttering. When three girls are dancing the dance of time, it's like jumping out of Vera's life: stuttering.
When she found comfort and satisfaction in Baltimore, she thought that if she arranged the dance of time, her version would be a woman spinning from left to back on the stage. The audience could only see a blur of color, and then she disappeared into the side curtain.
When she knew her true self and learned to love herself, Vera, 6 1 year-old, found herself. She wants to be the dance of life arranged by herself, and the stage of life follows her innermost thoughts and does not please others.
Vera, 1 1 years old, took care of this family together when her mother ran away from home. She washed the dishes yesterday, but dad didn't say a word of thanks. She hid her worthless feelings and only saw the tears on her face in the mirror.
Vera, 6 1 year-old, received a strange phone call saying that her ex-husband's girlfriend Dennis, her 9-year-old daughter Cheryl and a puppy named "airplane" needed her care. Her first reaction was that she wouldn't go. But when she thought about the feeling of being needed, she happily thought, what will happen if she goes?
She takes care of her family and gets along well with her neighbors. She likes the atmosphere here. Near the day of going home, both Daniel and Cheryl hoped that she would not leave. She followed her heart and stayed to take care of their mother and daughter.
In The Little Prince, the fox said to the little prince, "If you tame me, we need each other. For you and me, each other is unique in the world. " Vera and Daniel's family, like the fox and the little prince, were awakened by the need for her sense of value.
Vera, 4 1 year-old, gave up her activities for her husband Derek's company party. Even though she thinks Derek's colleagues are difficult to communicate with, she dare not refuse. She wants to be a good wife. In an overtaking, Vera didn't dare to stop Derek who died in a car accident.
Peter is Vera's second husband. Because of his crazy love for golf, Peter moved his family to a golf community in the suburbs. Here, Peter plays sports with his golfers for several hours every day, leaving Vera alone, without relatives and friends, and without a job. Even so, he did not object to her husband's decision.
Vera, 6 1 year-old, returned to her hometown under the arrangement of Peter. After the plane landed, she didn't hear from Peter. This time, she was not lost. She felt very satisfied. At the last moment leading to the airport exit, she decided to buy a ticket and return to Baltimore. She followed her inner voice and found herself.
"The Courage to Be Hate" wrote: It takes fearless courage to live for yourself and undertake this freedom and responsibility. Vera, 6 1 year-old, finally has the courage to live for herself.
2 1 year-old Vera gave up her dream of becoming a linguist in order to marry Derek. In college, exploring languages opened a new world for her. She can listen to Dr. brogan's interesting stories about linguistics one day. But she didn't follow her inner choice and gave up her favorite linguistics.
Vera, 6 1 year-old, told Denise's family that she knew five languages and loved linguistics, and finally learned to teach English as a second language. After starting a new life, she plans to teach immigrants to speak English, teach Cheryl's classmates to speak Spanish, and try something new that she never thought of before. She feels that there are infinite possibilities waiting for her.
"If the egg is broken by external force, it is the end of life; If the egg is broken by internal force, that is the beginning of life. Miracles always begin inside things. " Vera of 6 1 broke the eggshell that protected her for the first 60 years of her life and started a new life.
Concluding remarks
Taylor's dance of time makes an ordinary person and ordinary things so charming. In this paper, we intercepted some small things that happened in Vera 1 1 year, 2 1 year, 4 1 year and 6 1 year. Such an ordinary story seems to let me see myself.
I have been looking forward to the earth-shattering reversal, but I failed to do it. So ordinary but so profound, when a woman wants to find herself, she doesn't care about her age. As long as you dare to think, she can find herself.
The stage of life doesn't need others to tell you how to jump. It belongs to you and should be defined by yourself.