Sometimes, love can be very simple.
Take for example, a close knit group of friends, as close as family, living in a old, dirty building that badly needed maintenance. Today, it was the birthday of one of the friends, and as such there was a dish on the table that would never have been served under any other circumstances; a plate of deep fried prawns. Facing the big plate of golden-brown, delightfully crispy prawns, the birthday girl was so eager that her want shone in her eyes. Keitaro, pretending not to notice it, put one of the biggest prawns each on the bowls of Naru and Motoko. Naru however, hurriedly grabbed her prawn and put it onto Shinobu's bowl, saying, "It's not easy to digest these prawns, so I'll let the cook and birthday girl help me digest it instead!"
Shinobu, equally hurriedly, grabbed the prawn and put it back into Naru's bowl.
"We only eat prawns once a year, if you, one of my closest friends, won't eat, then I won't eat either!"
The entire table continued in this fashion, and soon everybody's bowl contained a shiny, delicious golden prawn. This ordinary group of people, having an extraordinary meal, had brought to the entire warmth so thick that it was tangible…
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Sometimes, love can be very simple.
For instance, every single morning, the wife always gets up the earliest, working as fast as the wind to get ready breakfast for the rest of the household. However, one day, the wife felt ill at night, and when she opened her eyes the next day, she was horrified to realize that it was way past the time for her to be preparing breakfast. Hence, she hurriedly put on some clothes and rushed into the kitchen, before abruptly stopping in her tracks as she sensed that something was wrong.
Apparently, her husband, Keitaro Urashima, had taken it upon himself this day to cook breakfast for the family, and as the wife swept the kitchen she noticed Keitaro in a corner, carrying a bowl of her favorite noodles and moving towards the table. Noticing her, Keitaro froze for a moment, before smiling at her and saying, "I saw that you were not feeling very well yesterday, and I turned off your alarm clock so that you could sleep longer. I woke up first, and I made this bowl of noodles for you, but I don't know if they are to your liking…"
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Sometimes, Love can be very simple.
A young girl completely failed at her exams, and she was so upset that she could neither eat nor sleep well. Her parents were worried at her reclusive behavior, and they neither scolded nor punished the girl, but instead worked together with their child to help her analyze exactly what had gone wrong leading to this horrible state. From that time on, they also gave up their daily entertainment time spent watching the television to help their child revise her work.
Once, when the father and daughter were out for a walk during the evening, the father held onto his child's hand, saying, "Shinobu, remember this; in the game of life, even if you fall way behind others, your mother and I will always be running to together with you. No matter what happens, we will always stay by your side, helping you, until you catch up to your friends, until you surpass your friends…"
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Sometimes, love can be very simple.
It's the great annual supermarket wide sale again, and every section of the supermarket was filled with lucrative offers in the hope of attracting customers. Naturally, the entire supermarket was packed, but the true monster was at the cashier queues. One of the lines even stretched from the cashier right to the middle of the supermarket! At this moment, a lame man struggled to squeeze over to the cashier, his left arm weighed down with heavy bags of groceries, and his right arm occupied with carrying a young girls with curious blue hair. Sweat dripped down his pale, gaunt face, and even though they irritated him he was too occupied to wipe them off.
Suddenly, the women in front of him called out to him. "Come here, son! I'll let you have my spot."
The lame man hesitated for a moment, unsure of what to do, when suddenly, the man currently paying swept his own items aside and pulled him over to the front of the cashier. "You are queuing here, so now it is your turn to pay!"
The lame man, in gratitude, kept on thanking the people profusely, repeating the words, "thank you," while he made his way, one step at a time, towards the gently smiling cashier…
Sometimes… love can be just that simple.