Letter to a child graduating from high school

Flavio 2022-03-23 08:01:04

To Zou Xi:

Thank you for accompanying me through a year and seven months. These days are short, but they are the little sunshine in my heart. I wanted to write about your impression of me, but I couldn't, because people are constantly growing, especially children of your age. Maybe the next time we meet, it will be a different scene.
Happy and sad. Happy because you are about to enter high school, new classrooms, new teachers, new dorms, and new classmates. There are so many people graduating every year, and so many new students every year. This time of year is filled with repeated polite words and repeated parting words, but every year is so different, because we are all ,people.
Seeing this, you may be wondering why I wrote this, because I don't want to talk to you about those messed up realities. I am an idealist, I have all the vain thoughts, and I have practiced them. I have also experienced the days of the five ridges and six beasts, so I want to say, study hard, the score is the only criterion for admission, but also Don't pay too much attention to it, I think it's okay for your brain to deal with some exams, but please hold on to the ideal in your heart, that's your motivation, that's what separates you from others, maybe it will also Help you in the days to come. Please don't take me too realistic. You have to have your own criteria for judging. Don't follow others' opinions. There will always be a group of mediocre people who follow the crowd. In fact, they don't want to. It's just the reality.
My ideal has existed since a long time ago. To be a writer, a prodigal son, the ties of the world, and the evaluation of the world on me are only one aspect. If the world is really that big, I would like to go for a walk. Those beautiful scenery, I also want to see.
Maybe many years later, I will still be here as a teacher, maybe I will teach in a different environment, or maybe I will travel around the world with a backpack and photograph gorgeous scenery. But in the end, it's still just a teacher. Believe me, please cherish these three years of high school, those times that are about to begin, only once in your life. It's normal to get lost, pick up the phone and tell me. Communicate with adults more, because those real adults will always tell you the safest way. If you need unreliable answers, please come to me, because I am a writer.

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  • Napoleon 2022-03-26 09:01:14

    Poetry is really beautiful

  • Anthony 2022-03-23 08:01:04

    I am a writer. In fact, we don't need each other at all.

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