Let’s Fly to Freedom

                                     Let’s Fly to Freedom

Nothing is going to change when someone always lives stuck in the past. On October 1^st 1949, Chairman Mao was pacifically standing in the front of Tian An Men Square in Beijing. Once he declared China is liberated, a sea of faces in the front of him cheered excitedly. That was a new beginning to most of the Chinese, most of them. A new era created secretaries in charge of all businesses of the village areas, and one of them had transformed the life of my father. My father was poor when he was young. The secretary denied my father to attend high school due to his poor family environment. He was forced to give up his education and jumped into rough family farming. Obviously, he became a poor farmer while some of his classmates had already become successful businessmen or officers. It had nothing to do with his talent; it was just his misfortune. As a result of my father being denied an education and the poor family environment in China, we immigrated to the U.S. where he has seen I can be free and build myself a better life.

A shameful mean decision by the secretary caused a tough but positive family. My father started to struggle with his farming duties after the secretary turned him down. He maintained all of the family farming and just got a little reward because of the policy. He continued to live with his poor condition until the age of twenty seven and then had an arranged marriage, which was an advanced age to marry in his generation. Accordingly, he married my mother, who he had never met before. He had to work every sunrise to sunset to support his cherished family. Nonetheless, this was just the beginning of my independence. I started to do my heavy housework when I was ten. My father sighed when he saw the first meal his little girl cooked for him, for his helplessness to create a comfortable family environment for his daughter. As a father, he didn’t want me to do any heavy work. Nevertheless, he just worked as hard as he could, and he had never complained about his unjust encounter. He had never grieved about the past and looked toward the future; this is an invaluable thing he taught me in my unique childhood.   

‘‘Once I have chance to change, I won’t let it slip!’’ my father said that to me when he was recalling his childhood. His voice was clam, whereas the expression in his eyes was intense. My father spent his entire earnings to immigrate to the U.S and he even had to borrow some from his relatives because of he didn’t want me to follow in his steps. He has a tough childhood, which made him as a giant in my generation. He led my family toward boom by his hard work. He always gives me the best, like a candle gives its all to the tiny blaze. I think this is the way he wants to tell to the others; he doesn’t want anyone to look down upon him or his family. His brilliant determination had led my family to face a new beginning of our lives, and nobody can judge him about this time.

Compared to my father, I am a greenhouse flower. Living in the U.S. it is easier to capture the success of my life. I am not afraid of the income; I put whatever I earn into my pocket. I am not scared of the system behind the socialism; I can do whatever I want to do legally. The U.S. is a place where I don’t have to undergo the experiences my father had. The United Stated of America is a free and ideal country, which my father wants to provide to me. I profoundly want to thank my father. I am a fortunate girl who skips in time of tribulation in order to gain a better life.

No one is settled at the beginning of his or her life. To be a person that I want to be is to depend on myself. The secretary changed the early life of my father, yet he modified his older life by himself. Nonetheless, it’s clear that a futureless path can develop to be a splendid avenue. When my father was young, he didn’t grieve about the misfortune in the past. He just looked toward the future and lived positively. He is a good example of how misfortune may be an actual blessing.