Time goes on as it always does.
I find myself less conscious of the exact date of each day. I get up by the calling of the alarm clock, dress myself, head for my office with little notice of the surroundings, pass by the same gate where comes the same sigh of sympathy from the same old porter, and greet silently any colleague into my eyes before seating myself at the desk. Fortunately I am able to concentrate upon my work but in fact it is much too difficult to make any mistake, as I have nothing else in my mind.
But today I have asked for leave, to relax myself for a whole day, reviewing the spots we have been to and the people we have stayed with--- every bit of the past is always so pleasant and nourishing, from which I can get all that I need for another three hundred and sixty-five days.
It has been totally 3 years since she left me.I fell in love with her at first sight, while she told me later that she hadn't noticed me at all that time…
Time: a cloudy winter morning. Place: East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
I was to take the Japanese Efficiency Test. The examinees were notified to get to the destination before 8 o’clock, at exact which time I arrived there and found the actual time should be 8:30. I as well as many others had no place to go except to stand here and there waiting for the opening of the gate of the classroom building. “There she is!”
I was about to complain about being kept waiting so long when a figure caught my eyes. In an opalescent coat she stood there alone and silently with a black leather bag in her hand, slim, middle height with an oval face, shoulder length hair falling naturally. I seemed to see her cleverness, quietness, self-improving with a noble taste and working in some office with some paper work.
I stared at her, forgetting where I was and what I was doing until the crowd began to pour into the building. At the same time I found I had lost all trace of her!
I knew clearly that it would be next to impossible for me to see her again. Thus everything returned to its normal state soon. I continued my work as well as my happy life every day, enjoying hard work, playing balls and going on a trip now and then at my leisure. What was more, I thought I had forgot her completely for I didn’t find her in my dream, even for a single time!
I was with a Japanese enterprise, little pay but much work. The only point to attract me there was that it provided enough opportunities of further training abroad mainly for which I worked hard.
The time finally came!
I was the only one to be chosen to get further training in Japan in the next three years. I deserved it. It came after numerous efforts and pains. I knew a new life was waving at me!
Nothing good goes smoothly. The day I said goodbye to my workmates came silently. But I was informed I had to go to Japan alone as I had a good command of Japanese and was familiar with the one in charge in Japan. I hurried to the airport and was told coolly by the pretty girl behind the computer that no ticket for the next flight to Japan could be available any more. I had to make an emergent call to my old classmate, who worked in the airline company. He called back and said there was a ticket because someone canceled his or her flight just the moment I phoned him.
The minute I was lucky enough to be able to get a ticket, the other passengers had all got on the plane. I ran all the way to the plane and found my seat, which had belong to someone else.
You know what will happen next. That’s the coincidence of life, or to say, the destiny of life.
