夜回林书

夜回林书

Hi, dear damsel Lin. I am much appreciative of your taking some time to, in earnest, read my story, express your sentiment and share your experience. What a tremendous delight for me to have your confidence by sharing with each other our own beautiful but sentimental episodes in growth.

It’s probably right, as you pointed out, that the little girl may in all likelihood turn to be a stranger when we meet some day. Everything about her and me will be altered in the river of time, except for the remembrances written warmly down in my story of that summer days. This can explain why I have unspeakable sorrow dwelling on my heart after I recollect the glorious hours that had been spent by us together. I will accept your golden advice by heart, to know more other little girls and boys, and to acquaint myself with friends of a different sort.

As I once told you before, you are such a vivacious, diligent and glamourous damsel, that I kind of, to speak the truth, get besotted with you. By-and-bye, regular exercise, as I have observed involuntarily, has given you a well-shaped figure of lovely curves and a sound state of mind, by which you have formed your healthy life. I like for you to exercise, for which is the best way for you and me to relieve ourselves of poisons accumulated in us.

As for the family, I am fairly content with what my parents give me as you are. I have already been a man of more than twenty, who has his own labor for a living, and who can bear family duty for alleviating parents’ toil. We cannot choose to be born; We cannot choose our parents; We cannot choose our upbringings. But we can choose how we shall live: optimistically or pessimistically, courageously or in cowardice, with goal or in drift, nobly or in self-distrust. We don’t need to feel ashamed of inferiority to those in possession of resources and connections, because we are all human beings. Every self-esteemed person can all find the happiness that belongs solely to her or him, as long as she or he was once in the persistent pursuit of happiness.

You have my confidence, my lovely friend, so I’d love to speak to you these sentiments that may look a little odd. I open to you now, my lovely damsel——do allow me call you thus ——please don’t miscomprehend my feelings, otherwise I would rather remain silent.

You, damsel Lin, are absolutely right to regard me as a man of sensibility, because I am feeling now overflowed with emotion like a volcanic outbreak as I write to you.

This is now a middle night. I like working in the night when others are in sleep and I am awake. Only time and darkness bear my company, and my heart that is restless in daytime is getting placid as the sky darkens.

I am kind of out of order perhaps. I hope to see you. I am fervently expecting you to reply to me as soon as possible, of course, on condition that your study must not be impeded or detained. So, nighty night, may the gorgeous night give you serenity and repose.

19th June, 2018