Sky of a foreign land

Author: Qiu Shi
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: 23 women drifting in a foreign land, feeling the sensation of walking on the road of a strange place. When I pause my steps and look up at the sky above, I discover a deep blue I have never seen before. This is the sky of the foreign land, just as vast as the sky of my hometown, even more magnificent and colorful. In pursuit of dreams, one often drifts in a foreign land, and that feeling of drifting is etched in the heart. The hardships of the career and the setbacks of emotions fill life with rich colors; the joy of meeting old friends in a foreign land, the melancholy of missing home during the Mid-Autumn Festival—on the road of life, one keeps writing one's own words, revealing the true taste of life in the strokes of the writing. The sky of a foreign land is not only loneliness and helplessness. At least, like many others who drift in a foreign land, my daily life is so happy. The friends I meet in a foreign land may not be able to speak our hometown dialect with me, may not be able to accompany me in recalling the little moments of home, but it does not affect the understanding and affection between us. Because we are all in a foreign land, we understand and cherish each other even more. We speak Putonghua with our respective accents, vividly describing the days, places, years, and scenes of our hometowns. We use our shared understanding to grasp each other's longing for home. We promise to visit each other's hometowns in the coming years to experience a different local culture and customs.