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Streams of Life (13)
来源：洪恩论坛 Canuck's Comments
日期：2006-4-21
作者：sonnet.
阅读：1075 次
Streams of Life (13)
My friend and I threw a party last weekend. It was casual, homely and only some
fifteen guys attended. My friend had craved for this house-warming party for ages, and so had I, for to some extent the party was a milestone—one way stood for physical, menial labor, the other more interesting, though more challenging as
well, intellectual task.
During the last sesqui-months for boosting up our preoccupying teaching business
, we had managed to transmogrify the empty, banal living room to a becoming, workable classroom. For that, we made ten modular chairs, two coffer tables, and four canvas-made painting frames ourselves. It looked stunningly impressive after
it was finished. Well, it was in my eyes at least. To invite people around, hence, and to have some fun mingling around at our own house was our reward. And I
knew we owned that.
My friend invited his acquaintances and I invited mine, which was meager, one day beforehand. We tidied up the whole house once again, downloaded party music off the internet, went shopping for computer speakers, party drinks and snacks, set up paper towel dispenser inside the bathroom, designed and printed our preliminary business cards, and groomed, polished ourselves so as to get ready for the
exciting, long-expected party.
People showed up at around seven p.m. that very night. The elevator couldn’t be
busier at that time range, and our floor more jovially clamorous. After picking
up guests from downstairs and having the drinks mixed and served, we started to
chatter away with one another. It was hilarious. When people said they really appreciated what we had done and the opportunity for them to mingle around with people they had never met before, we realized that all this was worth our while.
I don’t know to what extent of importance the gathering meant to my friend. But
for me it was way beyond just a milestone for our teaching business. First time
co-hosting a home party, first time mixing cocktail, first time serving self-made fruit desert and being appreciated, and first time having a proper setting tomeet people---All this rolled into the very party. And also because of this, I become more assured about myself and what we are engaging in now.
I think in a way I was too anxious and impatient to see the immediate benefit, with the result that I put a lot of pressure on myself and my friend. I should
have confessed that business setting up took time, as Rome isn’t built in one
day. I worried about our pacing of setting it up, suspecting all went on too slowly. But now as I sit down and look back, I know we have done pretty well. In the past I was just too stressed out to put the progress we had been making at itsdue position. Well, maybe it is as people said: Cest la vie! At times you can never know how long things actually take unless you put your own hands in it.
