Something to look forward to

By Vicky Glembocki

Little children look forward to the arrival of lunar New Year,adults to that of spring.Days spent in expectation come and go really very fast.Very soon I finished primary school,went to junior and senior middle school,and finally to college;with ever greater desire for more varied things:for graduation with honours,for an ideal job,for a successful career,for more earnings to share my parents’burden,for a satisfactory life...Climbing the upward steps of hope I had become a fully grown man before I was aware of it,a busy breadwinner with a family on my hands.

Life began to show its various parts.Whether I have turned more vulgar（adj.庸俗的）or great,I have always something to look forward to.It may be arrival of a letter,publication of an article,the bonus-distributing day,a gratifying result of something,a get-together or a pleasant trip.Such expectations serve as a support to a person's faith in life.

A day without hope would be unimaginably pale.There must be something to look forward to each day to brighten one's life and keep it out of shadows.To a person cherishing hopes every morning rises a new sun.Even if it is a fantasy or an illusion（n.幻覺；幻想）,so long as it shows a ray of hope it still urges you on in pursuit of that little sparkle without letup.

Without moisture （n.水分） content,soil turns into desert.Without hope,what is there left to a person?A small hope support a person for a day,a great one for a lifetime.

Human beings cannot do without something to look forward to.

May everyone have something new to look forward to in 2018.

細娃盼過年，大人盼開春。在盼頭中，日子真的流得飛快，轉眼上了小學，繼而初中，然后高中，最后大學；盼的欲望更加強烈，盼的內容也漸漸豐富了：盼有好成績畢業，盼有一份好工作，盼事業有成，盼掙錢替父母分憂，盼令人滿意的生活……不知不覺，天天踩著石階而上，自己竟成了一個大男人，一個掙錢養家糊口的忙碌人了。

生活開始變得復雜。然而，無論自己是否變得庸俗，還是變得偉大，盼頭依然天天有。盼信件，盼稿件被采用，盼發獎金，盼某事滿意結果，盼一次聚會、一次旅行……人就在盼頭中找到了依托。

沒有盼頭的日子是蒼白不可想象的。人，得天天有點什么盼頭，生活才不至于暗淡。有了盼頭，會覺得太陽每天都是新的。不管是望梅止渴，還是畫餅充饑，它都會激勵你不停手中的槳，去追逐哪怕是一星微小的火光。

土地去掉水份，就成了沙漠；人沒有了盼頭，還剩什么？小盼頭支撐人的一天，大盼頭支撐人的一生。

人，是絕不能沒有盼頭的。

愿大家在2018年都有新盼頭。