a letter to mom

Dear mother:

Thank you for your support for my years and thank you for your education for many years. The ancients said: "Hundreds of good filial piety is the first." However, I did not go to filial piety. When I was a child, I was so ignorant, I thought that I didn’t have freedom, I couldn’t do this, I couldn’t do that, and every time I got to my exam, I would say something to my heart: “When you take the exam, finish it. After the inspection, be careful when doing the questions..." I heard that I started to groan again, and I will interrupt me with annoyance: "I know, I know, it’s awkward." Now I grow up, I know You care about me. Until now, you have been listening to the things I told you about, the troubles and pains in my heart, and now I understand that I care more than just swearing. Listening is also a concern, a kind of silence, love in the depths.

I used to want me to grow up faster and mature soon, and I always ask you curiously: "Why?" You always answer the same answer: "Mom and Dad are old, you have to take care of your mom and dad." "I just retorted: "Mother and Dad are not old!" After you heard it, I always smiled and said to me: "Okay, good, Mom and Dad are not old." Now I understand, I just want to grow up faster, faster. Mature, don't go for a piece of pure land for me to cultivate, only in my heart, in a place outside the world, for peace, growth and innocence.

The results of this midterm exam are not satisfactory, but you will be rewarded with a score that will satisfy you in this final exam.

Daughter: Yan Xuelin

May 16

The first day of Ningxiang County, Changsha, Hunan, China: Yan Xuelin