I had been reading Gone with the Wind these days. I finished reading 100 pages yesterday, originally I decided to have jogging, but later I was so fascinated by the book and I forgot it. When I finally raised my head and found it was 11 o’clock. Hearing the English noise of my neighbor, I came back from Atlanta during the Civil War period to Shenzhen during People’s Republic of China period.

    For so many years, I had rarely indulged myself in a book like this. I only had this kind of reading passion before senior high school, but during those days, I rarely had books. I had to read a few books owned by me again and again. Since my senior high school days, I never had this kind of reading passion.

I remembered clearly one night during elementary school, I borrowed a book Lord Bao Cases and had to return it to my classmate the following day. I moved my head close to a kerosene lamp and read it eagerly. I didn’t know it was midnight until I smelt burnt odor, suddenly I found my hair was burnt by the kerosene lamp. During those days, I dreamt of having many books to read, but I could only read the book titles in Chinese textbook. When I got a new book, I would forget everything around me and felt myself in the world of the book.

Since I couldn’t afford to buy new books, I often moved my head close to my classmates who were reading interesting books, most of time, they hated to share books with others. Then I had to do homework for them so that they could lend me their books.

When I first read fairy tales Andersen and Grimm, holy Maria, I never believed there were books wonderful like those.

I was going to finish another 100 pages tonight. Scarlet O’Hara was really an amazing woman. She could be strong as a man and tender as a lady. She was true and never hid her intention like other women did. She even killed a Yankee with Charles’ pistol. The Yankee was really miserable because he never believed a tender lady such as Scarlet would shot him to death. Especially during war, woman needed man’s protection. Even a woman as strong as Scarlet wanted the protection of a strong man. She liked to bury her head in the man’s arms and never had to worry about anything again.

My assistant quitted and I was really busy these days, however, I never used it as an excuse to quit my reading and writing. So many things to do, which made me a little crazy during work. I had to do the boring test by myself now and felt it was really a time-wasting thing, but I had no other choice now.

I didn’t care and decided to enter into the world to share the happiness and sorrow of Scarlet O’Hara. I should learn from Scarlet. She always decided to think of sorrows later. Maybe I would think of my heavy-loaded work tomorrow and just enjoyed tonight.