Right Here Waiting Beside The Tree
( A new Chinese idiom story“守株待兔”)
Little White has experienced many love stories. After he loses his last love, he
art broken, he decides he is finished with romance. He is a handsome white rabbi
t: kind-hearted and full of affections, but always he has appeared like a play
boy. This time it is strange, even he himself cannot believe it is the new lost
love that makes him feel so sad and alone.
A Chinese poet says,“月上柳梢头,人约黄昏后 ”----
When the moon moves to the tips of willows,
Dusk becomes the perfect dating time for lovers.
Tonight Little White hates the moonlight,for he has lost his love. Wandering a
bout abstractedly, he comes to the big tree under which he used to meet his girl
lover.However, "where is my love? I know I am not perfect, I am careless, and
some of my playful words and actions may have hurt you. But why not give me th
e chance to say I really, truly, love you! If a parting time is needed, I hope
it will last ten thousand years!? "
He says it to the big tree ,but there is no response at all. He has tried many t
imes to call her, but the mobile system said: " the subscriber is powered off"
or "end of the service.He has tried many places to look for her, but she hides h
erself somewhere, and never wants to see him. Looking back on the happy times he
shared with her under the tree, Little White's tears fall down upon his furry w
hite cheeks. In order to stay with his love, he even give up the chance to study
abroad. "Now I am jobless and out of love. Why is it me who gets hurt every ti
me?!"
Thinking about all the sad things under the tree, Little White feels the end of
love, and the end of his world. The idea of suicide suddenly strikes him and th
en he suddenly begins bumping his head heavily against the tree......
Just at this moment, out of the moon flies a fairy in white. She reaches quickl
y for the rabbit, opening her warm arms wide. The rabbit rushes to her breast.
She saves Little White!
Little White has fainted. He is lying in the arms of the fairy just like a baby
. The fairy looks down upon him and smiles with eyes full of tenderness. Soon L
ittle White regains full consciousness. Then he jumps quickly away. He asks wit
h surprise: "are you a ghost, or a human? What are you going to do?"
The fairy smiles and tells him gently:"I am a fairy called Chang'e, I live in
the Guanghan Palace of the moon. I am a sad and penitential woman because mee
ting with my husband is forbidden by the Emperor in the sky. I become even m
ore lonely now for my Jade Rabbit is missing! Are you my Jade Rabbit?"
Listening to Chang'e words ,Little White feels as though in a big dream. Just b
etween the seconds of life and death, he has come to deeply comprehend the true
meaning of life and love. All the happiness and bitterness now seems to have ha
ppened long ago and far away. On the wind he hears a special song "Memory"wafti
ng from somewhere:
"Memory, all alone in the moonlight. I can smile at the old days, I was be
autiful then. I remember the time, i knew what happiness was, let the memory l
ive again.
Day light, I must wait for the sunrise. I must think of a new life, and I mu
sn't give in. When the dawn comes,tonight will be a memory too.
And a new day will begin! Burnt out ends of smoky days. The stale cold smell o
f morning, a street lamp dies, another night is over. Another day is dawning.
Touch me, it's so easy to leave me. All alone with my memory,of my days in t
he sun. If you touch me, you'll understand what happiness is. Look, a new day
has begun."
The forest is bathed in the moonlight and breezes. All the world seems so peace
ful. In the moonlight,in memory, Chang'e is flying for the Moon Palace with
her new lovely white rabbit......
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In the moonlight and memory, the rabbit gains a new life. Does Little White fly
to another love: a virtual romance or a web love? :)
As a matter of fact, they all still live in the moon today, at least in Chinese
fairy tales.
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