Sophie did not even raise her head as she replied, " There is no progress at all. I have not found him from the videos yet.” 2
Helen said seriously, "Some things are entirely dependent on fate. If there is no fate, then no matter how hard you try, it will still be useless. However, if the both of you are fated, even if you are not trying to look for him, he will still appear in front of you." 5
At this time, Sophie did not hesitate at all as she said," I do not want to leave everything to fate. That is simply too unreliable. There are so many people in this world. Aside from the neighbors who are right at our doorstep, the probability of two people who have met by chance in a foreign country meeting again coincidentally is close to zero. If I do not take the initiative to look for him, I am afraid that I will not ever be able to find him in this lifetime." 3
After that, Sophie became a little sad and depressed a s she said, "A human's memory in itself is already not that good. Not many people will be able to remember everything. Humans can only remember certain things more clearly by using repetition to deepen and etch them deeply in our memory. This is similar to how we used to memorize our textbooks when we were young..." 3
"In the first few days after returning from Japan, our benefactor's face and appearance were still clearly etched in my mind. However, after so many days, his appearance seems to have become increasingly blurred. I have been trying to constantly think of him s o that I can have a deeper impression of him etched into my memory, but it does not seem to be working at all. I am afraid that I will forget how he looks like after awhile..." 2
As she spoke, Sophie raised her head and looked at Helen and Jaime before she asked, "Mom... Brother, have the both of you ever felt this way before? You want to remember what a person looks like, but it seems as though it is even easier for you to forget it, then?"
Jaime thought for a while before he said, "I think it depends on the person. If you see someone often, you will not forget what a person looks like. If it is this kind of person whom we have only seen and met once, I will not be able to remember his specific looks and appearance after a long time. I will only have a vague memory of that person's appearance."
Helen also nodded and said, "Sophie is right. A person's memory has to be constantly deepened so that something can be inscribed and engraved in our mind."
When Helen said this, she was thinking about Curtis.
She had loved Curtis so deeply in her entire life. However, throughout the past twenty years since
Curtis's death, if it weren't because Helen had been constantly looking at pictures of Curtis when he was young, Curtis's image and appearance would have gradually blurred in her mind.
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: The Man in Power After Being Married into Her Family