The spring festival was approaching. It occurred to him that he didn’t go back home for a very long time when he saw an old woman hugged a young boy with tears in the chill evening. Yes, he didn’t go back to his hometown for 3 years after graduation. He studied pedagogy in the university but he decided to do business. His boss asked him to undertake the business during spring festival for 5 years in exchange for a promotion to the general manager of a branch. To a man like him, it’s a seductive opportunity. He took it though the spring festival was the only holiday that long enough to go back home. With 3 years passed, he now lived a perspective of great paradox. On the one hand, he need to be wary of everything at anytime when he was in the company. He was afraid to be dismissed before his boss could have the chance to fulfill his promise. On the other hand, he seemed to be set adrift in a sea of unknown people. Everyday he ate alone, walked alone and smiled alone. His phone rang. “It must be my father”,he thought.
“ How are you?
“ I am fine, how are you? Is mother there?”
“ Your mother let me ask you when do you come back, she is on the bed.”
“ I..., is she watching TV, please ask her to take good care of her eyes. I remember”
“Go back home in this spring festival. I think this will be the last command if i haven’t lost prestige in this family in your mind.”
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He didn’t want to be on the defensive of his condition. What his father did is only to express their yearning of the only son. He didn’t feel it demean to let his parents to find a presentable job for him in his hometown, but the failure of self-realization made him breathless. After all, he worked in the company for 3 years. Yes, the job was both a detriment to him and his parents. It made both of them in the throes of separation. At last, he went back home.
It’s sorrowful to work outside without any achievements, but no one knows how grief will he be if he turned to be a teacher as the way that his father had paved for him without having to try to pursue his dream.。