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Hello love: Happiness

MOTHER'S ROSY CHEEKS

Báo Đồng NaiBáo Đồng Nai16/10/2025

“Beauty is not in the rosy cheeks of a young woman, but in the eyes of a lover.” Dad often teased this whenever he saw Mom putting on makeup. Mom would shyly glance at her husband through the mirror on the wardrobe and mumble something in a low voice. The rustic couple didn’t have a single wedding photo, just quietly being together with their simple love.

I remember back then, my mother’s makeup kit consisted of a box of whitening cream that also served as a foundation, and a pink lipstick. Every time she went to a wedding or had a gathering with friends, my mother would only lightly apply those things on her lips and face, but my father would always have to turn around to look at her for a long time. I’m sure that even if my mother had no makeup on, my father would still give her his full attention.

The makeup box was my mother’s treasure, even though it was only smaller than the palm of my hand, it could be used for years without running out. My mother said that at that time, having a makeup box was a dream for women. So, after buying it, she used it sparingly. Because in addition to the “rosy cheeks” of a young girl, my mother also had to look after her hungry children. Everyone wanted to be beautiful on the outside, but the beauty of a woman’s soul when she was with her husband and children was the most attractive and lasting trait, even after decades of wrinkles on her forehead.

Mom doesn’t use perfume, but she always has a pleasant scent. When I was little, I loved rubbing my mom’s cheek and inhaling that fresh scent. The distinctive scent of the lotion mixed with the soapberry that she used to wash her hair, I nicknamed it “the smell of mom.” Later, when mom wasn’t as healthy as before after several surgeries, her scent was mixed with a bit of green balm oil or the bitter scent of traditional Chinese medicine. Every time I hugged her thin shoulders and inhaled her scent after treatment, my eyes would suddenly flutter as if they were falling into a haze.

Mother's foundation and natural beauty products did not have eye-catching packaging, nor were they advertised loudly. They quietly permeated into the lives of women and mothers' dressing tables, and accompanied countless families back then on a journey of growing up full of memories. Now, holding in their hands the old jar of mother's whitening cream, all of us were moved to tears.

Mom is old now, and dad has been “resting” for more than half a decade. Mom kept the cream box neatly in the drawer, as if wrapping up the youth of a generation. Perhaps Mom’s rosy cheeks were in Dad’s eyes, and for Mom, applying blush was just to look more beautiful in the eyes of her lover. The makeup cream box was a way to express love, preserve affection and strengthen the relationship between parents. Sometimes I saw Mom take out the cream box and look at it for a long time. The lines or engraved letters on the lid also gradually faded. For Mom now, perhaps it no longer exists solely as a makeup item. The blush box is still here, but the person looking at it has gone forever.

Mom's makeup box is a witness to the love of "grandparents" time, simple but lasting with time.

Today, the cream box from yesterday was unlocked by my mother and placed on the table next to the makeup mirror. My mother said that tomorrow was my parents’ wedding anniversary. My mother’s hand caressed the cream box, as if greeting an old friend. I could not see my mother in her wedding dress, nor the rosy cheeks from the old cream box, nor the rosy lips from the lipstick. But from my mother’s cloudy eyes, I could still see the happy smile of the young bride from that day. A happiness mixed with a little nervous anticipation, lingering on her rosy cheeks.

Perhaps, happiness never disappears, whether it is a smile or a tear. Happiness is still somewhere in the memories, the nostalgia... It is a stepping stone for the future, helping people learn to appreciate the present. Like the happiness that parents have built for decades, without the word "love", but everywhere you look, you see love.

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