Thirty Ordinary Years
Life rushes by, filled with every kind of joy and sorrow, happiness and heartbreak.
Childhood brings carefree days, along with all sorts of troubles.
Youth brings all sorts of pressures, as well as all sorts of happiness.
Adulthood brings work, marriage, countless choices, and countless temptations.
Everyone's life is different, yet in many ways much the same.
There are all kinds of moments that resonate with us, and just as many that make us sigh.
As an unremarkable person living in this era, my ordinary life has been uneventful and without novelty.
But in other people's stories, we can always find faint traces of ourselves...
I chose to write this story to sum up the thirty years of my own ordinary life.
Since this is a memoir about thirty years, it would feel incomplete to rush through infancy and childhood in a few strokes.
So let's begin on the day I was born...