Birds travel for a long time, they always want to return to their nests

Elyse 2022-03-21 09:01:39

17 year old me

She is a good girl who keeps herself in a small town. Parents arranged everything. Study hard, send interest classes, send key classes, and even the classmates around will be specially arranged by the head teacher as girls. No first love, no bullying, no campus romance with tall and handsome social gangsters. everything is plain

I desperately want to be someone else

I hate the extremely literary and hypocritical name my parents gave me. Since elementary school, I have hated the embarrassment of my classmates looking at me when I read ancient poems in class. I hate that the boy with the same name in the next class always takes my 90-point test paper and gives me 60. Scored test papers. I thought of countless strange names for myself, ready to change it before the third year of high school and start my completely new life. I want to go to America, I want to escape my hometown where I have lived too long.

I want to quickly escape from the three-point-one-line life, I want excitement, I want to see the wider world, I want to go to New York, I want to fly

Finally, at the age of 18, I embarked on a journey of studying abroad alone

Everything is fresh

At the end of the age of 19, I came to New York for the first time and experienced the 24-hour prosperity and convenience of the world's metropolis.

For the first time, I was taken to a nightclub by my classmates to drink and watch people at night.

For the first time, I was very drunk, and while singing with my friends, I took the subway at 5:00 a.m. to go back to my friend's house in Harlem.

At the age of 23, I experienced for the first time what it feels like to be dumped by a loved one. In the early morning of Sunday, I was drunk and walked to the Baptist Church on 32nd Street, listening to the choir singing hymm slowly, New Yorkers were not religious at all, and there were a few blond white families in the sparse seats. The eyes slowly opened, um, the sun slowly leaked from the ceiling. The makeup on my face has been mushy. On the altar, the priestess looked at me and smiled: God loves you.

My tears couldn't stop, I really wanted to go back to my alma mater at that time. I really miss my parents who are far away in China.

24 years old, once said that you can't fall out with each other in your life because you know each other too many bffs of black history and black secrets, and suddenly blocked me. No one will show me the twin rainbows born in the Colorado Heights when the lights in the dark New York night can't lighten my dark heart. No one will comfort me when I'm all crazy and foolish. Not long after I went to Taiwan, I wanted to see her hometown. But no longer interact with me and complain.

At the age of 24, he returned to the motherland. Everything is so unfamiliar yet so familiar.

I used to be the same as Christen, holding my mobile phone and asking my parents to press a number for me, waiting for me to make money to pay them back. I have also misunderstood my good friends, and I have also been hurt by hateful love. I also desperately wanted to get rid of everything and go to New York without risking my life. But on the way to New York, I realized that I will always be the little girl of my parents. Their love will never fly away.

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Lady Bird quotes

  • Julie Steffans: You can't do anything unless you're the center of attention!

  • Kyle Scheible: You're gonna have so much unspecial sex in your life.