There was a whole day blackout  yesterday. The daytime with the absence of electricity doesn’t seem to be any abnormal or unfavorable, but when the dusk is falling down and the things in the room as well as everywhere outside begins to fade away from your sight, a strong sense of fear and loneliness will become overwhelmingly strong in your heart. This is especially true when you are alone. That is what I had vividly felt yesterday from the dusk to the midnight.

Darkness tends to prompt the thinking of things that are long forgotten and ignored. For the purpose of shying a way from the strong fears, I turned on the radio, which served as a loyal companion to me before but has been long ignored since I had access to the internet. Suddenly, I developed a sharp regret for my little radio. Such a feeling reminds me of the origin of buying it, when I was a freshman, having an ardent affection for English and was determined to understand the news broadcast on BBC. Back from such reminiscence, I was aroused by the “earthquake” program. So many people lost their lives, supposedly, in a horrible darkness like what I am suffering now. Thinking of this, I began to imagine that if I were in the earthquake, what I should do and think first. Like those young heroes, saving their fellows from the verge of death, or escaping by myself? Cherishing the old times that I spent with who and who? Who is who? I wonder? As I lay on the bed, listening to the more and more remote sounds from the radio, I began to feel sleepy but still couldn’t fall asleep. Sleeplessness really tortures…

Such a power failure of yesterday night offered me a good chance to cherish the lovely brightness I am enjoying right now. I would try harder to read more and learn more with the presence of light. Above all, don’t neglect the value of what you own and realize its importance until you lose it. That is probably the best lesson I learnt during the blackout.

 

Having watched the movie “pursuit of happiness” (translated into Chinese as “when happiness knocks on your door”), I was, just as many other people who had ever watched it, deeply touched and inspired by the leading actor “Chris”. In a country like America, life is extremely hard for the poor, especially for the black poor. Chris, a strong-willed but without a decent social status, has to struggle with the incessantly emerging difficulties and obstacles in his life. Many people in this fiercely competitive world choose to succumb to the various hardships they meet rather than fight off them, But Chris by no means belongs to that class. Like a worm treaded upon by the ruthless rich and the cruel society, he tried every means to struggle out of the adversities and reach out for the happiness of himself as well as his son’s, with profound perseverance and, of course, outstanding intelligence. Such two factors also constitute the final happiness he has been pursuing.

Oftentimes, I would consider whether happiness must be obtained invariably with arduous efforts and severe solitude as the exchange price. “You get a dream, you have to protect it”, when Chris solemnly told his son with these words, some sound seems to echo in my ear. People, who hold remarkable dreams and ambitions in their mind, in many cases, would meet with mockeries, suspicions, and even jealousies. So people who firmly believe that their dream will one day come true have to face up to enormous stress in the course of struggling. Actually, the only thing worthy of fear is fear itself. No one else can defeat you unless you give up on what you do. People who want to achieve success should prepare themselves for a life in solitude, in weariness and in boredom, for few achievements are accompanied by applauses and acclamation before they are really realized. When people around us, well-intentioned or ill-intentioned, may persuade us into forgoing what we are engaged in, it is a time to test our will and capabilities. What we need to do is bear in mind what we are going to reach and how we shall distinguish ourselves from the mediocre. Apart from that, we need to take concrete actions rather than make our pledge a blank note. Only though this way can we attain the happiness we have been longing for as our ultimate ideal.

I am, as a matter of fact, far from among the ones who are able to adapt to any adverse circumstance without any favorable conditions. I am far from like those who see being alive with their mouth enough (not delicately) fed and the most basic physical need met as the top priority. To me, living, dignified with my highest ideal realized, is what prevails. That’s why I cannot endure to live in the upcoming slum-like staff dormitory located on the attic of SCIENCE SUPERMARKET “endowed” by the majestic college authority. What I can only say is “Oh, your majesty, thank you so much, but I’ don’t need that.” I am by no means a waif dog that has to beg for food in exchange for the right of living.

In Chinese there is a proverb, “穷则思变”, I might as well comprehend it as “ Change or you’ll die.” You can never find anything more astonishing and ridiculous than seeing a COLLEGE TEACHER living in a ghetto-like dormitory. Of course, here “college teacher" should be prefixed by “so-called”. China, for a couple of decades, have been advocated “尊师重教”, which means revering teachers and putting education in the first place. Right now here, in this uni as well as its inferior college, such a motto serves undoubtedly meerly as words rather than deeds.

Whatever, after all, I have every reason to strive out of here. I can never live in such a slum. I’ll spend every penny I earn to rent a decent house to allow me a good environment to study in, thus to change the current condition. “To adapt to it if you cannot change”, as some hypocritical ones told me to, is absolutely nonsense. Leave me alone!

 

It is a presumptive concept in my mind that every satisfying outcome of victory is bound to have some tormenting adversaries leading the way. Such an idea derives probably from my painful experience in the failure of the first high school entrance examination. I have always assumed myself far from a girl so lucky to gain something rewarding without paying any price. On the contrary, every fruit I gain have to be paid a heavy price. Admittedly , I’m not among the most unfortunate, because , I believe , I can always reap what I sow , sooner or later, rather than end up in vain. That’s why I have always borne in mind my goal without ever thinking of giving it up. Recently, some sorts of disturbance showed up so abruptly that I felt smotheringly depressed to face up to them. It is consoling, however, that I tend to distance myself from the crowding nuisance, with the strong belief of the destined final triumph. Sometimes it is so suffocating to keep silent that I’m inclined to burst into a screaming cry to relieve myself from those repressing emotions. A couple of trifles happen recently so funnily and ironically that they simply serve as catalyst to strengthen my faith in leaving here, which is definitely not a place I belong to. Literally, I don’t like being secluded from the crowd mitigating all the time. The point is, only through this way can I seek some internal calmness to allow some rationality as an indispensible impetus to move forward.

Keep silent before you are distinguished from the mediocre. That’s all that I can do in the darkness before the magnificent SUNRISE looms. P.S. thank you my darling, you are my tenderest company whenever i feel lonely.

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     终于到了6月1号了，终于可以名正言顺，理所当然地不要塑料袋了。每天都要到超市买上点东西，可是那收银员总是很自觉地给装在塑料袋里，我真是“盛情难却”啊，可是心里却是极度的不愿意。有那么几次实在不愿意接受塑料袋了，便自己随身携带若干。可是结款时发现自己像个“异类”，好像很做作，说了一声“我这里有塑料袋”，装上东西便灰溜溜走了。心里自我解嘲道，我是环保主义者，我管那么多。现在收银员问起“要不要个塑料袋啊”，终于可以“自豪”滴说“Of course not!",当然还是用中文，嘿嘿。

     我们坚决不要塑料袋，做个时尚的环保主义者吧！儿童节快乐！