The wind outside seemed to weaken and the rain also eased. Since there was no electricity, I couldn't watch the TV news, and no one knew whether the typhoon had passed or was just a temporary turn.

After listening to Cai Meiwen's story, everyone finally knew an unusual event she had experienced and understood her difficulties. It can only be said that she thought further and more carefully than ordinary parents. Not only did she consider the situation when the pet was alive, but also her daughter's feelings when the pet died.

If you are a lot of parents who are very enthusiastic, you must be open-minded and say that if your pet dies, you will die. As a child, you will forget it after a few days of sadness. What can you do?

But in fact, every child who has raised a pet when he was a child, even if he only kept a pet for a short time, he will never forget the sadness and pain of the pet when he died. The better the child has a good relationship with the pet, the more sad the child will lose his pet. No one can say whether this will have a long-term impact on the child's psychology and personality. After all, the human brain and spiritual world are very complex, and are full of mysteries like the universe.

Cai Meiwen's experience reminds Zhang Zian of Stephen King's horror "Pet Cemetery" that was brought to the screen twice. There are some subtle similarities between the two.

In "Pet Cemetery", the mother experienced a terrible death at the age of 8. The deceased was her sister. She was tortured by illness before her death, which left a deep psychological shadow on her. Therefore, when her father tried to tell her young daughter about her concept of life and death, she became angry.

The young daughter raised a cat and regarded it as a treasure and was inseparable from it. As a result, one day the kitten was hit and killed by a passing car while going out to play. Because she couldn't bear to have her daughter been too sad because she lost her cat, her father made an extremely wrong decision... The rest of the content was irrelevant.

Because of her childhood shadow on death, Cai Meiwen did not allow her daughter to raise pets with a short lifespan. She did not want to see her pets die too early, which made her daughter sad. She had the shadow of the male and female protagonists in Stephen King's book.

If it is just horror, which starts with horror and ends with horror, then it is no different from the fast-food Internet. But as the king of horror, Stephen King actually talks about human nature in his book. Take the book "Pet Cemetery" for example. Under the appearance of horror, it actually talks about the importance of life and death.

Suppose that after the mother's sister suffered from incurable diseases, the elders knew that her sister would die and explained the correct view of life and death to her mother in advance. Then, the mother would not leave a psychological shadow that could not be relieved when her sister died. Then, when the father tried to tell her daughter about her life and death, she would not rudely interrupt her father.

If a young daughter had a correct view of life and death, she would be able to face the death of her cats more bravely, and the subsequent series of tragedies would not have happened.

Similarly, Cai Meiwen's first contact with death turned out to be a cruel murderer, and then experienced the death of her beloved dog. Before that, her parents had never talked to her about death.

It has to be said that many Chinese parents are like this and are extremely taboo to talk to their children about two things - sex and death. In order to think these two things are extremely dirty and unbearable, parents believe that as long as they don’t say it, their children will not be exposed to these two things.

As for when to say it, they probably won’t say it forever. They think that when the child grows up, they will naturally understand it and there is no need to say it at all.

But can they really do what they want? As long as they keep silent, their children will always maintain a simple childlike innocence?

News about junior high school girls giving birth in the toilet or boys killing their classmates dozens of times, is actually common.

Because children are generally precocious now, parents' disclaimers make children often ignorant and unprepared when facing sexual and death for the first time, and it is inevitable that they will make big mistakes, and the root cause lies in the parents.

Many schools now popularize sex education courses, but it seems that schools and parents don’t care about the view of life and death.

Another reason why parents and schools hide from death is probably because they think that death is difficult to explain. Parents have uneven cultural levels and they don’t even really understand death. How can they tell their children and how can they understand it?

Atheism occupies a dominant position in Chinese society, but this also makes parents even more at a loss when talking about their views on life and death.

Parents in Western countries are a little more troublesome. If you want to be convenient, you can tell your children that dead pets and families go to heaven to accompany God, so that children can be more easily accepted and understood. When the children grow up, they can talk about a deeper view of life and death.

What do Chinese parents say? Could it be that they tell their children that your puppy is going to the Heavenly Court to accompany the Jade Emperor? Or the West to accompany the Tathagata Buddha? This seems to be inconsistent.

Maybe the child will cry and ask, will I see it in the next episode of "Journey to the West"?

After all, the Western paradise only exists in people's imagination, and the Eastern paradise has been deeply filmed and television decades ago...

Parents usually make it a stand-alone for difficult problems.

Because of her psychological shadow on death, Cai Meiwen's way of preventing her daughter from repeating the same mistake was to prevent her daughter from raising pets with short lifespans, rather than telling her daughter the correct view of life and death at the right time. This is tantamount to stealing the bell, because as she said, people cannot control death, whether it is the death of others, the death of pets or their own death.

Whether human destiny is dominated by free will or by fate, it is all delusion to dominate death - if you don’t want to die, others may want you to die, others cannot kill you, and natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes, typhoons, asteroids hitting the earth may also kill you.

Zhang Zian could not imagine how much impact his parents would have had their parents' death not when they were adults, but when they were young, because his parents had never told him about the concept of life and death. In this regard, they were no different from most other parents.

Even as an adult, if it weren't for the dream world created by Zhuang Xiaodie, he wouldn't be able to feel truly relieved of his parents' sudden death. If it were a child... whether it was the trajectory of fate or his personality, it would definitely have undergone tremendous changes.

However, living in a pet shop and witnessing the birth, old age, sickness and death of pets in daily life, he cultivated his simple view of life and death in a subtle way. So if his parents passed away when he was a child... his ability to bear may be better than other children, who can explain it clearly?
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