Fight like a Soldier

2008-04-17 23:31:10 / 个人分类：Feelings

I stretched my body, ran two kilometers, did thirty push-ups and sit-ups and other stuff, which I did almost everyday in the morning. After it was done, I stopped to sit on the stairs in the City Stadium.

The young girl, about 13, who I just got acquainted with two days ago, came up to me and asked if I was a soldier since I often wore camouflage coat.

Her question brought back to my mind one dream of my childhood. The moment I recalled the scene of wearing a military cap given by my father and shooting a toy gun at my fellows when I was a child, I felt proud and excited and happy as I used to feel back then.

There was only a great dream to be a great soldier in my imagination as a little boy. The sight of police or police cars every time made me hot-blooded and strengthened my desire to go for my dream. I just thought that they had guns, got respect and power, could do what others were not able to; they were big potatoes who I admired too much.

In order to realize my dream, a big decision was made to stop smoking after thinking it over because my father said you could only be a tall and strong soldier if you were nonsmoker. I have to say here that I once was a horrible smoker, who, once in a while, stole chicken feed from my father’s clothes while he was sleeping, in spite of a little boy who was about eight, not mature enough to smoke like an adult. In any case, I gave it up for my high-minded dream.

The recollection of childhood was still abiding with me, but the ship’s gone. My dreams have been changing with my age and the living standard in different times. Life is tough for most people, certainly, including me. Sometimes you have to adjust yourself to new situations and give up something, even are forced by circumstances to do other things. Though I won’t be a great soldier of my childish dream, I’m so proud for what I did. From that time I’ve ever not smoked and drunk, I did if I must do. Above all things, though I won’t be a great soldier, in some way I could’ve been a soldier in my heart and I will fight for my life like a soldier for ever.