Heart Wants
If I was asked if I wanted to be a scholar or a translator, I would say that I may choose the lator.I still remembered that once in a train, a patrolling scholar when learned that I was a freelancer of technical things remarked in my face that those translation are such easy a thing. I understood that as a humilating. But that would never affect my determination to be a real good translator.
To tell you the truth, I was also once offered good oppotunities to be a scholar. Of course I don't mean that scholar thing are not any good, but I only means that I don't like to be one as a English learner.
For you see, I had also gone through all the way from primary school to middle school, and from middle school to the college. Even when I had worked for more than ten years, I still tried to got back to finish my education as a graduated student. In fact, I think that I had never figured all of these out, I just did what the heart want.
You can imagine what difficulties to face to study after marriage. You have to raise a family besides studying hard. Many said that it is not good to study when grown up. I had dispised this saying, but I had to admit that it makes sense in some degree after so many years. Not to mention the pushing time, but also the bad memory of an adult, my life had been a real mess at that time. I think I own my wife a thank you for her support and understanding all through, technically speaking, she is the one more deserve to be an graduated student. But she choose to back me to realize my dream.
I did it and went to Hu Nan Province, where I studied liguistics for totally three years.
Many of my classmate called me and congratulate me for being the first and the only graduated student in my class. That seemed to be a glamor at that time, which soon dissapeared. I found that there are so many English learners devoted into theoretical studies, but not many went to real and practical things. Many of the graduated students just trying hard to copying east and west for compiling meanless articles and paid for publishing their so called foundings. You may say that they are just learning something proliminary, and being preparing for the future. But I think at least they should at least do some thing for the society when there urgently need good translators and they do have better conditions to be good ones. So after graduation, I again choose to be a translator. Of course I know to be a scholar it means elegance and respect. But I again turn to what my heart wants.
I will never regret.
Wife bless me!
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