Night Rain 丨 Lei Xuegang: New Year's Message

New Year's

Lei Xuegang

Time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like shuttles. Time is like a filter, filtering out the passers-by in life, leaving behind the most real people. The people who hold up my umbrellas in the heavy rain, the people who come to visit me when I'm sick, the people who light up the lights for me in the dark, the people who help me up when I fall, the people who always think of me first. Whether it is a small matter of raising hands or a great gift of charcoal in the snow, I will always remember it, and I will never forget it in this life. It is a blessing to meet in this life, grateful to have you, grateful to be with you.

Treat gains and losses, successes and failures, right and wrong, advances and retreats, highs and lows, more and less, everything is a definite number. What does not belong to you cannot be obtained no matter how much you scramble; those who are destined to leave cannot be retained no matter how hard they try. But where there is hard work, it is demanded. Looking at impermanence as usual, after all, what is lost is the scenery, and what is left in the end is life.

Wealth is not eternal friends, friends are eternal wealth. Friends are the measure of value in your life. People are grouped, and things are clustered. With a person you have just met, don't listen too much to his self-introduction, as long as you know his circle of friends, you will understand what kind of person he is. A vast sea of people, it is difficult to find a voice. Friends such as the big waves of sand, what is left behind is the truest and best, but also worthy of our cherishing and gratitude!

On the occasion of bidding farewell to the splendid and brilliant Year of the Ox and entering the Year of the Tiger full of beautiful hopes, I borrow the blue sky and white clouds to carry my blessings, I borrow the crystal snowflakes to bring my prayers, and I borrow the fragrance of the plum to bring my wishes: May my relatives, comrades-in-arms, classmates and friends continue to maintain a passion in the new year, forge ahead, make unremitting efforts, strive to create, and write the Year of the Tiger with wisdom and love!

(Lei Xuegang, Tujia, writer, poet, professor, researcher, scholar of contemporary Chinese cultural communication.) ）