My dear sister,
To be honest, I feel quite surprised at the progress you
have made so far!
I used not to harbor any great expectation on your
future development, only thinking that it would be my great comfort to see you
have a warm family with your kids without worrying about livelihood. Of course,
I did not hope to see you live a worrisome and insulted life like your older
sister. However, now I have realized that your talent is far superior to mine
and our older brother’s and I am sure that you would get admitted to university
eventually! From your letter, I can learn that you have had a more insightful
perspective on life, which makes me very excited! To my mind, I think everyone
would encounter a period in their lives during which they would suddenly reflect
on themselves and come up with their own ideas on how to live the rest of their
lives (of course, actually not everyone would have this period). The time for
the coming of this period is quite crucial because it has a significant impact
on our future development. It is actually a time when we begin contemplating
upon what career we would like to undertake and what we would like to be in the
future.
We were born in a poor farming family. However, we shall never
feel ashamed with our born identity, because it has actually brought to us loads
of benefits that we would enjoy during the rest of our lives. However, meantime,
we should know to get rid of the limitations of our identity, abandon the
short-sightedness most farmers are born with, and pursue a better life of
greater significance.
You must know how difficult it will be for us who
were born in a farming family!
First of all, we should get iron-willed
and independent, and confront the unfamiliar world before us bravely without
fearing any hardships! If we can have a right perspective on hardships, they can
endow us with nobility and confidence. My dear sister, how much I wish you could
live a happy life! Nevertheless, if you are doomed to suffer in your life, you
should go all out to bear all pains and persist in moving forward! A famous man
has ever said, “Are the pains we have suffered useless? No, they should make us
stronger!”
Besides, I have learnt a piece of news somewhere before that
is quite enlightening to us: the daughter of a US president, in order not to
rely on her father’s financial support for her education, washed dishes in a
restaurant in her spare time to make money. My dear sister, I am telling you
this story not to compel you to make a living by yourself! Please trust me that
I would send you 10 yuan promptly every month! I am really looking forward to
having a good conversation with you. So please write to me once you have time
and you are expected to use large font in your letter.
