Grandma is buried in Jiangyan. I miss her, and I also find myself thinking about the relationship between life and the universe. Though the place remains and everything else has changed, Grandma's traces will stay in time and space forever. Humans cannot go back to the past, but everyone's trajectory leaves a mark on the universe. I believe that one day, I will meet Grandma again in some way.

The heated debate these past few days over whether it's 「于是人」 or 「于斯人」 got me thinking about my grandma again. I really want to go back to my hometown and dig through my old books, find my middle-school Chinese textbook, and see what the original text actually was — seeing is believing, after all. My grandma is in Jiangyan, and all my childhood textbooks are there too; she kept them all at home. Sigh, but sadly they're gone now, one after another. The home is gone, my grandma is gone. Those connections have been severed beyond repair.