Chapter 8 The Secret of Preserving Marshmallows

If we can find a way to preserve our happiness and good feelings for a long time, it is like being able to preserve cotton candy for a long time, making it fluffy, sweet and shiny.If so, we can. When I was a child, I liked to go to the zoo with my parents. At that time, the zoo located in Yuanshan was very narrow, and every kind of animal was imprisoned in cages, which stink depressingly.The main reason I go there is that there are always vendors selling cotton candy, pushing a simple sugar machine on a bicycle, and coming to places where children gather.I like to watch his process of making marshmallows. First pour coarse sucrose into it and heat it, and soon you can smell the sweet and warm caramel smell, which I interpret as a happy smell. Every time I smell it, I feel my cheek Slightly sour, with the desire to cry.Then, a miraculous thing happened, the heated sugar flew out of the machine like pieces of tulle. The peddler took a thin wooden strip and wrapped them layer by layer, forming a big snow-white ball. The fluffy, fragrant cotton candy.

I will never forget the experience of eating marshmallow for the first time. I buried my whole face in it and took a big bite. The marshmallow quickly melted into a slight frosting in my mouth. I swallowed in surprise and swallowed it. That’s it. ,there is none left.I felt melancholy, staring at the long-awaited cotton candy, it turned out to be like this.It seems that it is not as good as rock candy.At that time, my classmates taught me to eat rock candy in my mouth, cluck, cluck, a piece of rock candy can be eaten all morning.Some classmates also invited me to eat cube sugar, which was so sweet that my scalp would fly away.

The first melancholy did not disappoint me. I am still a supporter of marshmallows. Sometimes I have a whim, why not eat it, and appreciate its shape and smell.However, my wishful thinking was quickly shattered, the wind and the sun eroded it a little bit, it shriveled and deformed, curled up in a pile and shed sticky sugar juice, and it was destined to be sent to the trash can after all. When I grew up, I once talked with my friends about the relationship that just ended. I had been looking forward to it for so long, I thought it was a match made in heaven, I thought there would be no other love that could love so deeply and meticulously, but it still ended. Still passed.The friend laughed knowingly and said, "Yeah, isn't it like cotton candy?"

It's like cotton candy.The anticipation and fascination for marshmallows is probably the experience shared by everyone in childhood, so longing, so lost. After growing up, we are still looking for our own cotton candy in the world, an imagination of an ideal life.Our hearts were once coarse cane sugar, raw and baked without smell or shape.Then, because of the touch of someone or something, we are tormented by heat, both joy and pain, but willingly.We are willing to change shape, a lighter shape, close to flying shape.In order to be accepted, we are also willing to be detained and controlled into a fixed shape, just like cotton candy.However, when we get close to the person or emotion we want to get close to, we will feel that everything is not as good as imagined. In fact, there are too many difficulties and hardships.We held a stick of deformed marshmallow, neither wanting to throw it away nor tasting it.

Many people have dismissed marshmallows and happiness altogether in the process, thinking that they are nothing more than figments of fantasy that are not real at all.And what I question is, is there no place for sweet and romantic dreams in the real world?I know marshmallows can be frustrating, but what if I found out how to make marshmallows? I don't have the secret of keeping marshmallows, but I know how to find new happiness and beauty after waking up from old dreams.