Well, 20 years later. Hum… I should be already 35 years old at that time. I hope I will have married at that time or I parents will try to kill me because my father should be 71 years old at that time. I think the life won’t be too hard at that time, because at that time I’m 35 years old, that means I’m not a fresh man in the society, I have job and I don’t need to worry about looking for a job. If I’m lucky, I can even buy a house, that’s great, but I know that’s very hard. You know the price of house in Shanghai is… HeHe!
I hope at time, I have got a stable job and had a good salary, of course, if the job is IT engineer then it’s wonderful, because that’s my dream. I hope I have married at time like I have said at the beginning, the best condition is I already have a kid at that time, that’s the wish of my parents. You know, Chinese have strong idea of family, especially the elders, their children and grandchildren’s life is the most important thing in the world for them.
I think if I have got these at that time, I’m already very happy at that time. If I’m not happy at that time then, I think that maybe because of I’m not an IT engineer at that time and I’m doing something that I don’t like to do. So that I may have to give up the job of me at that time, and go back to the way of looking for my dream, IT engineer. Of course that should base on if I gave up my job, my family and me can still have a good life quality.
This is the generation collage of mine. I chose seven, E… six pictures for this generation collage. First I chose Gangnam Style, the song of Park Jae-Sang. That is such a crazy Hip-hop song, but I like it, although my parent don’t think so, they think there is something wrong with the brain of Park Jae-Sang. The second picture I chose is the logo of World of Warcraft, the game of Blizzard. Although I’m already AFK (away from keyboard), it accompany me for a long time, 3~4 years and gave me a lot of unforgettable memory. The third one I chose is the night view of Shanghai. There are two reasons for me to choose this one, the first is Shanghai is my hometown, and the second one is the high buildings and lights on the picture show the life quality of us is rising. The forth picture of this generation collage is the logo of 2010 EXPO. The biggest event that happened around me that I can think about. Although Olympic Games in 2008 is also a big event, I didn’t went there because it was held in Beijing and I lived in Shanghai. The fifth picture is QQ, in China, almost everyone knows this little cute penguins, and it’s the Skype of China. In some of the people’s eyes this penguins is an evil, Ma Huateng (The boss of Tecent) gets billions of money from it every year, how evil it is! Last but not the least, the sixth one is two game machine. One is xbox 360 of Microsoft, the other one is PS3 of Sony. I put these two guys to show the new technology in. these years. Hum… Maybe I should put a picture of iphone 5s or maybe a photo of Steve Jobs works better.
I don’t think Mitch is happy with life, because in the “The Student” chapter we can find out that Mitch had a lot of resistance for him to do things follow the life. And after his uncle died, he gave up his dream and started to work for money. I don’t know what the feeling of giving up dream because of some reasons is, because I haven’t tried it yet, but I don’t think I want to have a try, that should be very painful. Although he earned a lot of money, he didn’t felt happy at all, in fact, he used almost all of his time on working, that almost him crazy. (I think if I was him, I was already crazy.)
In the college his dream is to become a famous musician, but when he graduated from college, he met a lot of problems, he’s uncle died, he found out the world is not wonderful and kind like the world that he imaged in the college. He got married but he didn’t have so enough time to stay with his family so that he didn’t get any warm from family. When he was in the college he hated rich people, he thought a shirt and a tie were prison cloths for him, but after he gave up his dream. He became one of the evil rich man that he hated in the college.
I think now Mitch needs to go back to his way to follow his dream. He needs time to have a rest, releases himself from hard working and gives himself a chance to think about his life and self-question and tries to find his dream back. And maybe he can also use more time on his family, I think this may also make him feel better.
Before the visiting, I was a little nervous, because that’s my first time for meeting a nursing house. I don’t know how to communicate with old people.
When we start to interview, the biggest problem I met is the old people’s ear is not very good, they can’t hear clearly so we need to say the words for many times. She’s name is Han Ping Mei. A normal Chinese name and is already 87 years old for now. So her memory is not very clear now, she can’t remember the things that happened when she was young. That’s cause a very big problem to us. But she is very kind, we knew a lot about her, she has 5 sons and also granddaughter and grandson. She is very kind and also very patient, although she couldn’t listen clearly and her memory is not clear too, she still tied her best to listen to us and answered our questions.
We found out her birthday is in December, so that I plan to visit her at that time. I think that’s a good idea, because the nursing house is not so far away from the school that means we can go there easily.