# rain on someone else's shoulder By [raindrop](https://paragraph.com/@raindrop) · 2022-08-10 --- ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/f3dfede07495fb40caf3e9bd571f4ae4bcb9a66cf472fbe3c21fbd54b9621efe.png) It was raining that day. There were two people approaching, a couple, very young. They walked in a hurry, talking as they walked. The two of them shared an umbrella, and the umbrella was in the woman's hand. The men were tall and fat, and the women held the umbrellas high and deliberately tilted the canopy to the side of the men. The man just walked forward, talking to the woman as he walked. ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/8ab557f9060febaf7889c7e99e91c1b1c083d547f25e9a2b5f985469549aebdd.png) ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/f3dfede07495fb40caf3e9bd571f4ae4bcb9a66cf472fbe3c21fbd54b9621efe.png) As they passed by, I saw a shoulder of rain falling on the woman's right shoulder. However, the man does not know, the man only cares about talking and walking forward.  In an instant, life passed by. Then it rained, then it was sunny, and then the rain on that shoulder dried. As long as the woman doesn't say it, the man will never know all this.  The protagonist of the following story is a young man. In a misoperation, he was crushed by the factory machine and his legs were crushed. For this, he had to fight to the death for a long time. During that time, his mother was trembling and carefully accompanied him. ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/5b1505b5996e1ebb43c863176eaa235385a48bc1a7ef7f9dcdf2cca079907526.png)  Finally, he emerged from the shadow of this disaster and began to shake his wheelchair around. Some people persuaded the mother, saying that while the child is young, take him to see the beautiful and fun scenic spots, and see more of the world, maybe, he will be better. Mother shook her head and said, "The house is fine, and we don't want to go anywhere."  At first, the young man didn't care. He listened to what his mother said.  One day, the young man was stunned by a set of photos on the Internet. He suddenly said to his mother, "Mom, I want to go to Huangshan!" Mother was startled, stayed for a while, and said, "Son, we're not going anywhere, we'll be fine at home. ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/bd719f6d596286de14d3b4fca27f9a48ec22c4d648a054e9ea2f41e17d13328b.png)  Who knows, this time the young man suddenly became angry, he roared and said to his mother: You are not taking me anywhere, you are trying to drive me crazy, I think you are reluctant to spend money!  Mother seemed to have done something wrong and stood aside, not daring to say a word. In the days that followed, he would play tricks with his mother at every turn. However, no matter what he did, the mother just kept her head down and didn't say a word.  People say that this mother is too stingy!  A few years later, he became a family, had a wife and children, and opened a small factory with good profits. One day, at the dinner table, the family had dinner. He suggested, "Mom, now that our family is in good condition, let's go out as a family, there are many famous mountains and rivers, we haven't seen them yet. The mother sat there, weeping big and big, and nodded again and again and said, "Yes, child, it's time for us to go out." Then, tremblingly, he found a package from another room.  The mother opened the bag layer by layer, and there were several thick stacks of renminbi wrapped in it. With tears in her eyes, the mother said, "Child, it's not that Mom has no money. In those years, I really didn't want to spend money if I didn't take you out. Mom just didn't dare. Mom was afraid that you would see others jumping around, and you wouldn't be able to think about it...  When the young man heard it, he was stunned for a moment, and then he hugged his mother and cried. How could he know how much bitterness and grievance his mother has suffered for him over the years.  In our life, many people hold an umbrella for us, whether it is tangible or intangible. More often, we have dimmed our gorgeous life and made our wonderful life normal, just because we have lived too carelessly, never realizing that there is this umbrella above our heads, and never paying attention to the falling of the umbrella on our relatives and friends. Or that shoulder of rain on someone else's shoulder. --- *Originally published on [raindrop](https://paragraph.com/@raindrop/rain-on-someone-else-s-shoulder)*