THOUGHTS ON DUTY
Today is my turn for duty. I sit at my desk and remind of many things in the past,especially on time's memory.
Not so long ago, I am a aggressive college kid filled with enthusiasm and ideal, like a lot of young men, feeling confident in the future.That time I seldom thonght of someting impossible.I usually considered that I was strong and powerful enough to accomplish my initial goal.
In those days, the sky was so blue, the wind is so warm, and the whole world was so fine. Nearly I lived in the fairy tale. My head is pure and quiet, with nothing else but to commit myself to the study body and soul. ...I believed that I could reach the summit eventually.
Now, as time goes by, I grew older. Though I have not in the least changed my original intention, all my efforts seem useless. The reality is like invisible mountain on my way to the peak. It makes me know a lot. Especially, I realized that I was like a drop in the ocean and was nothing to speak of.
Maybe I can not climb up to the clay dunes, let alone a peak of the mountain, although I have been working hard. However I still remember the proverb "No cross, no crown". I will do my best to realize my dream. To be engraved on my mind that, at least to absorb nutrients from that"
Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world -- the fight for the liberation of mankind. "