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发信人: tst (洛知秋), 信区: English
标 题: autobiography(3)
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Fri Mar 31 14:31:47 2000), 转信
[1994-1997]
Enan High School was a boarding school and to some extent, it
meant that I was to leave home to live independently. The curiosity
for a new circumstance overpowered my cultural shock
temporarily. But my parents couldn't bear the departure of their
son. They felt the house was almost empty suddenly. My absent-
minded father even went to the school to see me just on the next
day. I was afraid to be laughed at and pushed him out of my dorm.
Many a year later, I think my action at that time must have been
prude and stupid. Maybe I will face the same dilemma when I
become a father.
The competition in this school was oppressing and ruthless.
Score was the autocratic emperor, worshipped by everyone and
resented by everyone. The best students from the Region were
drafted here to create the wonder in the history of exams. They
were demons, wizards, exam machine, or every other thing but
human being. I felt shameful when compared with them. The first
term afflicted me most because I had to undertake the high
expectation of teachers, who would soon find that my quality
didn't live up to my score in the entrance exam. It was the most
gloom time in my life. I began to look down upon myself and felt
frustrated. Fortunately, my parents gave me comfort and tried to
lighten my pressure. By and by I elbowed through this period and
restored my confidence. I told myself: " you are not the best,
neither the least."
I also had my first love experience at that time. I hopelessly fell
into love with a girl in class in an outing. I didn't know why I liked
her. But love came and surged. I didn't know what to do and
became sentimental. I wrote my first poem on a notebook prepared
for her and indulged into romantic literature hopelessly. My poems
were quite appreciated by the girls in class and were circulated by
them. I felt somewhat happy because I believed she could have an
opportunity to read my poems for her. I began to send slips to her.
She also wrote back. But we never talked when face-to-face met.
She was a shy girl. That kind of secret correspondence lasted for a
term until she left our class to major in literary subjects. She
seldom contacted me from then on and told me we were too young
to talk love. I felt desperate and anguished. The busy assignment in
study distracted my mind and I managed to pull through.
The factory my parents worked in bankrupted in 1996. My
parents were flung into unemployment, which was called by the
government as 'laid-off'. They became the unlucky generation in
the world------a hungry childhood, a chaotic youth, and a helpless
middle age. We had been poor for twenty years and would be
poorer! My relatives gave their hands to us but it was not enough.
And I knew that there was only one way leading out------go to
college and support my family, especially my sister. I was a man
and I had to take the responsibility.
The pressure of study, the obligation of family, and the strike of
an abortive love made me think more deeply about the life itself. I
became more and more mature, physically and mentally. I read
when I felt lonely. Lu Yao's The Common World and Huo Da's The
Moslem's Funeral moved me to tears. Hai Zi, Bei Dao and Gu
Cheng's poems told me rebellion. More reading I did, more
suffocating I felt. I was shrouded by darkness and cried like a
wounded animal. I found that the original view of the world
crumbled. The world in fact was so ugly! I had been cheated for 16
years! No way out. I became radical, sentimental, doubtful, and
irascible. What the history book told was nothing but nonsense.
The political leaders were liars. The local officials were corrupted.
The education I had taken was good for nothing! I wrote my
bewilderment and anguish into that notebook, which was still
preferred by girls. But I didn't count on finding a friend from my
readers. I just wanted to find an outlet for my feelings. That's
enough.
In the 1997 College Entrance Exam I got a narrow escape from
the twelve years' dehumanizing schooling. I scored 582, not too
good but not too bad. I was accepted by Harbin Institute of
Technology and majored in English as hoped. My parents were
very contented with the result. They took out all the savings to pay
the expensive fee and insisted on going together. Mother had never
been out of Hubei Province. She needed to have a look at the outer
world before it was too late. Moreover, they wanted to stay with
me for a couple of more days. Sister couldn't go because of the
new term had begun.
We arrived at Harbin on a rainy day. Everything in school was
okay and they left soon when I was settled. I wanted to see them
off in the railway station. They refused. I only saw them off in the
bus stop. They waved from the back window of the bus. I turned
around and let the long-waited tears rolling down. I went back in
the beautiful but melancholy dusk, suddenly feeling everything in
the city was so strange to me. I was unloaded in the city and was
deserted here. I halted to wipe off my tears and went on.
I was 18 years old then and it was September 13th, 1997.
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