Celebrate Her Life
And here she is, sitting in the middle of the night, nine days after a new year, looking back for a while, reflecting on her life one year passed. Too many to share, too many to discuss, through ups and downs, through many crying until she falls asleep, but also happy tears to celebrate. She knows she is too fragile to express what is in her mind, too easy to drown in her mixed feelings. But she has to; because this is the only way she understands that life isn’t that bad, that life gives her so many ways to learn, that life brings so much joy in the middle of desperation, and that life is the way to find the originally-yet-ordinary human being inside herself. All the failures, all the punishments by herself, all the embarrassing things, she faced with a full consciousness. She cried a lot when she couldn’t understand what the natives said to her. She pitied herself when she was too shy to talk in English with someone when she came a long way to a new country. She tried so hard...
