Jojo over heaven

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14If I am allowed to say something a bit prejudiced, her refinement anddignity and that piety of hers were at the very least not born out of poverty......They must have been things born out of a life of luxury. But why would such awoman marry that father or why she fell into this miserable town, I cannot callanything but mysteries.Speaking of which, my father once told me something while drunk.Something about him eloping with my mother. And, "How's that for love andromance?" and some worthless drivel like that...... I dismissed it as drunkennonsense, but I don't know whether or not it was actually really true. I ignored itas it seemed like an incredibly hard story to swallow, but although I can't confirmit as true, it may not have been nonsense either.Perhaps that father of mine said something truthful...... Though there'sno way to find out now."Dio, don't blame your father. Your father is really a kind person. He justshouldn't drink. If he'd only quit drinking, I'm sure your father would workdiligently."Now this was nonsense, I thought. My mother said such things to mewith a serious look on her face...... It took all I had not to cry out against that. Iwanted to ask how she could possibly be so foolish.He's really a kind person?If only he stopped drinking?How or where could you look or in what way could you try to explain itin order to think in such a way......? All I could think was that my mother had losther mind from being beaten too much.If one assumed that, one could even say that they were actually a verywell-matched couple. But really, no matter how you thought about it, they werean incredibly mismatched couple.Despite living as the wife of that low-life father, for my mother whomade it a principal to do good--- who aimed to go to heaven, must have beentantamount to torture.Or perhaps for her, that was the most "charitable" thing she could do.

15Perhaps she thought that getting close to that father of mine, to remainmarried to him for life, was a mission given to her by God. Something along thoselines.It's an audacious hypothesis I have no basis for, but unless I think it wassomething like that, I really can't understand it.Her life was far too incomprehensible.She was the laughingstock of the town, but she still tried to help him.She was beaten bloody by him, but she still tried to serve that father of mine.Every day, she worked to the brink of collapse. And seeing as one dayshe really did collapse and passed away, I really can't understand her.In the end, I wonder if she did get to heaven?I don't think she did.Surely, she couldn't go anywhere.She had nowhere to arrive at and nowhere to go back to.

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Perhaps she thought that getting close to that father of mine, to remain

married to him for life, was a mission given to her by God. Something along those

lines.

It's an audacious hypothesis I have no basis for, but unless I think it was

something like that, I really can't understand it.

Her life was far too incomprehensible.

She was the laughingstock of the town, but she still tried to help him.

She was beaten bloody by him, but she still tried to serve that father of mine.

Every day, she worked to the brink of collapse. And seeing as one day

she really did collapse and passed away, I really can't understand her.

In the end, I wonder if she did get to heaven?

I don't think she did.

Surely, she couldn't go anywhere.

She had nowhere to arrive at and nowhere to go back to.

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