We made acquainted with each other because of GRE, during the hardest period preparing for the disgusting AW test. What I know then was no more than that her surprisingly large vocabulary, and her busyness about his Mas & PhD—a journal issued on their campus. Amending each other’s writings, discussing about the preparation about the sick test, we keep in touch via internet, now and then, though. She is, a smart person, a reliable friend, from whom you can learn a lot. Her passion towards life, her courage and persistence to struggle for her dream, firmly inspired me at that time. And her communication skill and leadership might be pretty good, resulting to her good performance in her journal work. Generally, she is such an ambitious and outstanding girl.

It’s been long time since we lost connections, until days ago I receive a message from echo saying that she was about to arrive at Jinan, and her ETA was just 1 hour later. She was here for an interview of a job in a hospitals of this city. Tense as her schedule is, she stopped by me, that’s what I really appreciate. Don’t need particularly sensitive, I can tell echo was tired, I mean, the real “tired” in her heart, maybe because of the job-seeking stuff or something that dissatisfied her, just as her failure in TOELF. She even told that she didn’t know what she really wanted. And this indeed pushes me to think about. What’s ridiculous is, among billions of people live on the planet, how many of them do know what they want and they don’t even realize that they don’t, or, whey should we know that? The essence of life is just, to strive for one’s dream, not to try, but struggle. Then, what if one doesn’t know what’s his dream?

Let this mess go to hell. Echo performed her act of worship to the second largest Buddha figure in Qianfo Mountain that evening. May everything goes well to her. And I believe she will do well in the future, no matter in her job or her abroad education application.

And, echo is probably an idealist, I say, probably. Idealism often means completism, means be inclined to pursue things that are perfect. Considering the imperfection of the word, an idealist prefers to be bothered by too many things around. “In order to be the best of you, you need to pay attention to adjust you to the circumstance, and concentrate to what you should focus.” That’s what my supervisor once said to me, and the mean time I wanna talk to echo as a friend.

At last, sorry to left “a pity” to echo, I was too busy to arrange my schedule on the following day. Oh, right, hope she can return to Qianfo Mountain when her wish realizes. Maybe I can make up, haha.