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A new year is coming!
When young, we looked forward to the new year's celebration with great exitement and eager anticipation. New year means red-envelope money, a short vacation, new clothers, best wishes from our parents and friends and also the everlasting new years resolutions. Now, we are quite accustomed to all these.
You don't have to wait until new year for new clothes, which to some extent reduces exictement upon them; at least, it is not a big deal of buying new clothes to you as it was when you were children. When grown up, we change from the receiver of red-envelop money to the giver of it; Sometimes, I am envious of children for that simple happiness and joyness upon receiving a small sum of money although we know our job credits our monthly bank account with much money than that; still, we are never as that happy as children. We are not that easiliy satisfied.
When looking back, I still could recall those best wishes written on the New Year's Cards sent by my classmates; I still kept some of them until today; part of my cherished childhood memory. Today, text messages carrying the new year's messages can quick come and quick go. Don't get me wrong! What I am saying is not that your friends don't sound sincere or true in those wishes. They mean it, absolutely when sending their best wishes around through text messages! What I feel quite disappointed and disheartened is that we are in a throw-away culture. It seems everything becomes disposable. Everything becomes so convenient as to the point nobody even cares to value it, cherish it and keep it for part of memory.
It is the price to pay for growing up! A mature and sophisticaed guy takes the place of the original innocent and easy-to-trust one. Sometimes we konw the original one has never really disappeared but simply buried deeply in our heart, or hided somewhere in our body. And it only emergies once again when we relax, come back home and become children again in front of parents. Before them, no matter how great achivement you have made, or how important an official job you are holding, in their eyes, you are children who need to be reminded of putting on more clothers when the weather suddenly changes or of never forgetting taking meals regularly when overwork.
At home, you temporily throw away the social mask you have been wearing for a year, listening to the complaints from our parents about our ignorance for not taking good care of ourselves, whole-heartedly enjoying the prepared dishes, and most importantly returning to be a child again! And that is what I most look forward to for a new year's celebration when grown up!
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- another new year coming soon. to everyone. always so thought breaks and growing recalling in each new year. wish more gain in the coming 2012, my friend.
