Newcomers in the family

Author: Wu Bin
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: When this book was completed, my son had just celebrated his 20th birthday. So, this book can also be seen as a birthday gift for him. At the age of 20, one is filled with dreams and bathed in sunshine. When telling the story of my son at 20, it also reminded me of my own 20-year-old self. That year, I solemnly had a commemorative photo taken in a photography studio and wrote an almost slogans-like phrase in my diary: "At 20, one is truly young." At that time, at least to myself, I was brimming with youthful confidence and pride, and even more so, I was filled with optimism and aspirations for my future. Strangely enough, at that time, I was working as an apprentice in a lesser-known enterprise in a remote mountain valley in the Liaodong Mountains, with only a junior high school education. The monotonous work, the mundane and hard life—it could be said that I had almost nothing, let alone a clear future. So, how did I have the courage to live, how did I have confidence and aspirations? It was simply because I was young. Youth is one's capital, the very foundation that one can rely on to dare to compete with the future and hold the belief that one can win.