Written on the occasion of my daughter's 22nd birthday

Baby girl, today you have been fighting in this world for 22 years, so many years, my mother, who is a good teacher, has been nagging behind your back, afraid that you are slack, afraid that you have taken a detour, self-righteously want to teach you how to play with the world, before when I was in front of me, you studied nervously, every day at dinner time, you want to say a few words, as if you can work harder. Later, you went to college and left home, I was worried that you would not adapt to an independent life, but also cherished every opportunity to educate you, and taught you how to get along with your classmates at length, teach you how to pay attention to safety, teach you not to relax and study, at that time, I felt that I had a lot to say every time, and I had to sort out what to say first and then say what to say, moved by emotion, knowing reason, every time I was about to be moved by myself. This year, you are farther away from home, I have long thought about saying something to you on this birthday, really to this day, but now I find that there is nothing to say except blessings and attention to safety. You have grown up, you have read more books than me, you have traveled farther than me, many of the things you face are already unfamiliar to me, I can't teach anything, maybe only to teach you how to face and how to steam when needed.

Fast forward 22 years, I vividly remember what you looked like when you were born, and the time has come to you to graduate from college. You teeth and teeth to learn language, toddler, chengbei kindergarten to learn to sing the song of the seven sons, come back dad sentence by sentence to correct how you should sing, for a long time your dad said that is the only song you can sing correctly, of course, this responsibility is mainly in me and your dad! Party and government organ kindergartens seriously dress up chickens when dancing cute, hands-free on the phone said as rabbits, the scorpion as a small tank, a serious book when telling stories "This story has been circulated for a long time...", this is the most easy to mention a few interesting things in so many years, that year during the SARS period kindergarten holiday, riding a small car back and forth in the alley in front of the house to twist the butt to turn the hula hoop, going to elementary school alone with a small school bag to go to school, carrying a drawing board to learn to draw, you were seven years old at the time and said that there were many eighty or ninety-year-old sisters there were paintings, Make me and your dad laugh, you also repeat is that there are a lot of eighty or ninety-year-old sisters, square school will not roller skate and do not go home stubborn, homework writing is not good by your dad tore up the request to rewrite the thing, many times there is no serious put up the kite, and XiaoLe again and again in the swimming pool fluttering, in Dongling Park successfully with the mud out of the loud pot of the bright smile, and Cong Cong dancing Latin dance in the square of the small dash, the summer vacation of the primary school graduation like to toss cooking at home, in the Beauty of the fitness monthly card, you are afraid of loss, not too tired, Sometimes go to school twice a day, junior high school students who are not good at studying block you to the playground to find you, you break free to go home crying and calling me, and Yang Xin on the way home from school to each other to leave a small happy contact code, high school ride a small bike to school every day, you say you like the small bud bag on the spring tree, Xie Yue said that she thinks about the joy of the small bread in the bag, the joy and sorrow of the two-day college entrance examination experience... Everything that grew up with you is vividly remembered.

Most of the fragmentary memories are your troubles, when the mother wants to help the child to correct every shortcoming, although sometimes it is self-righteous, every little achievement in your growth process can not be forgotten, that is always cherished in the heart of the thing, please your growth on the road to your own efforts, the mother blesses your road to go more steadily.

Happy birthday to you! Healthy and safe and happy every year!