很久没碰过书架上那些书了。一抬眼看到一本发黄了的大学教材《美国文学选读》。最近的应试英语真是让人乏味之至，随手抽下来翻翻，也许能唤回一点当年的“灵气”。

看来这个动机有一些回报，我又一次读到了非常喜欢的爱默生的一句话：

I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provencal minstrelsy; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low.
我不要求伟大、遥远、浪漫的东西；不要求在意大利或阿拉伯发生的事情；不要求希腊艺术或法国南部的歌谣；我拥抱平凡的事物，探讨熟悉的低贱的东西，坐在他们的脚下。

与其去深究句子中薄古重今的含义，倒不如来欣慰地感受一下，这句话对一个平凡人的现实意义。

What happened in my past year seems to be a reflection of the above sentence. No big things, no romantic stories, everything is so ordinary, but still I'm satisfied with my life in the past year, and, so indebted to all what I gained.

So, I would like to explore some of my trifling things in the past year when a new one comes:

·Spare some time to share with your friends no matter how busy you are. Just a  dinner could keep the warmth. Don't come to your friends only the time you feel lonely or depressed.

·Keep in touch with your family, pay enough attention to what happened to them, especially at the separate time.

·When you become so convinced about one thing, it's maybe the time for you to reconsider it, cause we usually draw a conclusion subjectively or only by our limited experience. It's so easy to overlook the truth underneath the rational reasons.

·Go to a book store sometimes, select a book about something you are interested in, or you want to probe, even something you never heard of. Modern lives are liable to land in monotonous, a book could be the perfect adjuster.

·Don't complain there are alwayls endless works to do, keep feeling unsatisfied with what you've been paid is furitless, fair and unfair is relative. Today's hard work may be neglected but we'll find its worthwhile tomorrow.