Going to the supermarket, people search every can of milk, fish box, and piece of meat like scanning the records of their ex-lover: "Is it expired?", " Can you still use it?", "Just opened yesterday but it already smells bad?". Food is still printed properly.
Just look around, many things in life are quietly expiring without anyone having time to label them as warnings! Like the electric rice pot that he had "sold together" for 7 years, a beautiful day naturally rolls out, cooking rice cannot be turned into rice without a word of warning.
The leather jacket that seemed to be a deadly shield, after 3 winters, began to peel like a snake in exchange for skin. The smartphone was bought and used for 3 years, but after half a year it was hot, slow like a turtle...
Thinking about it, it is easy to understand why objects have a limited use. But in fact, each person has their own term of use, not only biology but also "market psychology"! An employee was once called by his boss as a "companielining pillar", after his boss researched AI, he was invited to "bleep" at home.
A girlfriend who once made the guy write a love poem was suddenly replaced one day with a "young, less dramatic rookie". A dedicated teacher suddenly became "old- school" when students only needed to access YouTube to study all three subjects.
The age limit for use in love is even more difficult to recognize. Some people think they are close friends forever, until you run out of money to buy a drink. Some neighbors often brought cakes to their homes, but then quietly closed the door because their friends' families no longer had "any happy news to hear". People often think that the deadline is when things are broken. But in a relationship, expiration date is sometimes just a loss of interest to stick together.
It is a pity that many people do not accept the truth. They try to keep everything expired. They cling to memories like clinging to canned fish in a cage, hoping "can still eat them?" and then their stomachs hurt all week.
Some people are afraid that their deadline will expire. Fear of aging, fear of being replaced, fear of no longer being valuable. They use moisturizer like bathing, learn new skills like crazy, post photos of "living healthy and beautiful" every day to prove that they are still " delicious and healthy". Unlike objects, people can extend their life by themselves, with love, learning, kindness and punctual humor.
Life is not forever. Everything can expire, from the milk carton to friendship, from work to black hair. The problem is not keeping what is used, but knowing what should be left behind, what should be changed to keep, what should be respected... Because there are things that are not expired, but cannot be bought a second time.
