Didn't we agree to go to Tamale to see the first light of the Millennium? You are absent.
We miss life only once, and 2000 gave us the first ray of sunshine. Then, we missed the fishway in Yangming Mountain and the cuckoo in spring, the egg and snow skating rink in summer and the waves on the north coast, Valentine's Day lit by roses in full bloom and the Aowanda maple leaf in autumn. Your smile was wrong.
Walking on the road that day, I was very excited to see you with your bare diamond on my first Valentine's Day. Do you know how a boy like me who has never been to a jewelry store in his life struggled for the first time? I don't know your exact height, your preferences and your neck size, but I've been looking for a salesgirl of similar size in the store. I chose a diamond necklace and let her wear it. I wonder if the height of the diamond will face the position of my heartbeat when you wear it, so that when we hug, the diamond can remember your temperature and my heartbeat at the same time and convey our unspoken feelings.
Later, I watched a movie alone. I can't forget what the hero said to the girls: If you believe in God, all accidents are coincidences; If you don't believe in God, all coincidences are just accidents. I was in the same class as your primary school, in the same school as your junior high school, and then admitted to the same high school and university. At first, two strangers sitting far away became lovers after graduating from college. Is this an accident or a coincidence? If we are destined to spend childhood together and experience youth together, why is it willing to let you leave me a week before the year 2000, and let us miss the most important and beautiful start in life?
I am used to eating alone, walking through the streets of Taipei where we used to walk together, talking to myself, traveling alone, thinking of you alone. Until yesterday, you called me in tears and told me that the diamond had fallen. I know my habit of being alone will change again. I opened the piggy bank. At that time, after we broke up, every day, I kept money to invite you to dinner, take you to watch the sunrise, watch the movie Titanic, buy you a birthday present, a Valentine's Day bouquet, buy you a plane ticket and travel accommodation ... I used this money to buy a diamond necklace with the same carat and the same length. During the 305 days we were not together, including the missed sunrise, I wanted to buy it back.
I said, I have a necklace. Come back and get it.
Music: A Abandoned Dream-john williams /Y? Yo-Yo Ma/Itzhak Perlman Memoirs of a Geisha