The Closing of 2007—Part II

Year 2007 does not seem like to end peacefully. Benazir Bhutto was slain by a suicide bomber yesterday. For her, all the ambition, ideology, politics, love and hate are over, though more bloodshed will surely follow in Pakistan.

I do not know exactly why, but after hearing the news I start thinking of my father who rested in peace eight years ago after long suffering after a stroke. When I was little, I took everything for granted. I did not how hard it was for him to leave everything behind in China and started new lives for the family in Hong Kong. I do remember my sisters and I love to gather around him listen to his stories growing up in a small village and how he, a poor orphan country boy, courted my mother from a well-off family. I remember the sunny days on the beaches with him and mother, and one stormy day on the beach with him and mother.

Then I grew into a teen who knew everything. Father still tried to pass his invaluable life experiences to me but I was not listening until it was too late. Out of the blue, he had a stroke and could no longer speak. Even nowadays when I come to a crossroad, I wish I could have someone wise like Father to tell what to do. Of course, he passed away. On the second thought, even if he is alive, he will not have all the answers for me. The answers will have to be hard earned like he once did—at least I learned that much from him.

The Closing of 2007

Year 2007 is coming to the end. Life is full of surprises. I won’t have known one of the saddest events happened to me on October this year. Neither will I know when it will be over.

Life is complicated—full of sincerities and lies, kindness and cruelty, love and betrayals. JK Rowling believes the greatest force in life is love. I waited over a decade to read the final chapter of Harry Potter saga in 2007. There isn’t really scientific or historical proof of it, and we all know good doesn’t always triumph over evil (as it ends in her books). Nonetheless I have to believe in her because I cannot accept the alternative--evil.

As the year near the end, I decide to close the year on my own with positive outlook and renewed faith in human goodness instead of letting the sad life events closing up on me with cruel lies and betrayals.