86-Year-Old Grandmother and Shiba Inu Capture the Four Seasons in Bloom, Moving 700,000 People: A Peaceful and Beautiful Life with My Old Friend
This long winter has finally passed, with vegetation sprouting and cherry blossoms blooming, the warm sunshine warming the earth, everything is becoming beautiful.
Not long ago, Qi Pang just saw a group of photos of an old grandma and a Shiba Inu, a happy smile, and gentle and clean pictures, simply healing and healing and healing and healing.
Looking at this scene, it’s like waking up from a long sleep, and my heart is about to be warmed.
In the cherry blossom forest, grandma and Shiba Inu sit on the bench, leaning their foreheads together, cuddling together.
In the forest path, they sit on the ground, grandma plays with Shiba Inu, Shiba Inu also looks at grandma affectionately, their eyes only see each other, with a warm atmosphere surrounding them.
Grandma's eyes are full of love, Shiba Inu turns his head to look, has already understood grandma's affection, seemingly saying: I won't run away, I'll be where you are.
The photographer Yasuto took these warm pictures.
The old man in the picture is grandma, the Shiba Inu is grandma's most intimate companion, it has a down-to-earth name called Afu.
Photographer Yasuto said that he actually felt very guilty in his heart, and there was a regret that he had always kept.
His grandfather was a photography enthusiast, and he would take pictures whenever he had time.
Perhaps influenced by his grandfather, Yasuto also loved photography since he was a child, and developed it into his profession.
Yasuto often works busy, running around, countless photos saved in the camera, but until grandfather's death, he never took good photos for grandfather and grandma, not even a decent group photo.
At the grandfather's funeral, someone told Yasuto that the grandfather's remains were taken by himself.
Yasuto looked at the grandfather's remains, and was very sorry, and his heart was full of sorrow.
I don't know what kind of mood his grandfather had when he took pictures of himself, he should have been looking forward to his grandson being beside him.
This became Yasuto's eternal regret.
In order to avoid the same mistake, Yasuto cherished the time he spent with grandma.
Once, before a business trip, Yasuto rushed back home to meet grandma and made an appointment: ‘Grandma, when cherry blossoms bloom in the second year, I will come back to take pictures for you.’
Grandma was overjoyed like an 8-year-old child, eagerly looking forward to that day.
Yasuto was brought up by his grandfather and grandma since childhood, and had a very good relationship with his grandfather and grandma, even if he was busy working, Yasuto never forgot his promise to grandma.
When cherry blossoms bloomed, Yasuto brought grandma and Afu to the cherry blossom tree, leaving these beautiful pictures.
Cherry blossoms are often the witness of love, symbolizing romance. But at this time, grandma's smile, Afu's cuteness, cherry blossom's colorful, how not to be a beautiful scenery to enjoy.
It is said that children are like angels, with a smile without any impurities, and the white-haired grandma is also such.
Grandma was kind and warm, time was fleeting, and years were peaceful.
Yasuto decided to take grandma to see all the four seasons’ flowers.
In March, cherry blossoms are colorful, in April, purple vine waterfalls, in May, English roses, in August, sunflowers, in November, ginkgo leaves fall.
Grandma was holding a small bag on her arm, touching the flowers like a young girl.
Everyone is beautiful, grandma's face was covered with wrinkles, but it made the pictures even more full of the texture of years.
Grandma would stop to look at Afu when she was tired, and Afu would actively approach grandma’s side, smiling and letting grandma touch her.
One old sewing machine, is grandma’s dowry when she married, accompanied grandma for 64 years.
Grandma was wearing glasses and was carefully repairing and mending, and Afu accompanied grandma quietly.
Grandma was tired, she would stop to look at Afu, and Afu would actively approach grandma’s side, smiling and letting grandma touch her.
One old man and one dog, lived a simple life, but they were very satisfied, often smiled at the camera.
Just as in the book ‘People’ it said: ‘Sometimes beauty is wonderful. Sometimes emptiness is also beautiful.’
These photos Yasuto posted on the internet, unexpectedly attracted widespread attention, later even entered the Tokyo Photography Club Exhibition.
Maybe life is like this, when you put your most sincere feelings into something, maybe you never expected to get something in return, but heaven gave you a different surprise.
Grandma and Afu’s series of photos not only touched our eyes, but also touched our hearts.
Life is impermanent, the most afraid of is leaving a permanent regret, unable to make up for it.
We always yearn for poetry and faraway places, increasingly enthusiastic about tourism, thinking that distant places are the best, but we were really all out of love for the scenery, out of curiosity about the destination of travel? Or did we just go because others have seen the world, and I should also go? When others have seen the sea, I can't not see it?
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Yasuto
