By Vicky Glembocki

Little children look forward to the arrival of lunar New Year,adults to that of spring.Days spent in expectation come and go really very fast.Very soon I finished primary school,went to junior and senior middle school,and finally to college;with ever greater desire for more varied things:for graduation with honours,for an ideal job,for a successful career,for more earnings to share my parents’burden,for a satisfactory life...Climbing the upward steps of hope I had become a fully grown man before I was aware of it,a busy breadwinner with a family on my hands.

Life began to show its various parts.Whether I have turned more vulgar（adj.庸俗的）or great,I have always something to look forward to.It may be arrival of a letter,publication of an article,the bonus-distributing day,a gratifying result of something,a get-together or a pleasant trip.Such expectations serve as a support to a person's faith in life.

A day without hope would be unimaginably pale.There must be something to look forward to each day to brighten one's life and keep it out of shadows.To a person cherishing hopes every morning rises a new sun.Even if it is a fantasy or an illusion（n.幻覺(jué)；幻想）,so long as it shows a ray of hope it still urges you on in pursuit of that little sparkle without letup.

Without moisture （n.水分） content,soil turns into desert.Without hope,what is there left to a person?A small hope support a person for a day,a great one for a lifetime.

Human beings cannot do without something to look forward to.

May everyone have something new to look forward to in 2018.

細(xì)娃盼過(guò)年，大人盼開(kāi)春。在盼頭中，日子真的流得飛快，轉(zhuǎn)眼上了小學(xué)，繼而初中，然后高中，最后大學(xué)；盼的欲望更加強(qiáng)烈，盼的內(nèi)容也漸漸豐富了：盼有好成績(jī)畢業(yè)，盼有一份好工作，盼事業(yè)有成，盼掙錢(qián)替父母分憂(yōu)，盼令人滿(mǎn)意的生活……不知不覺(jué)，天天踩著石階而上，自己竟成了一個(gè)大男人，一個(gè)掙錢(qián)養(yǎng)家糊口的忙碌人了。

生活開(kāi)始變得復(fù)雜。然而，無(wú)論自己是否變得庸俗，還是變得偉大，盼頭依然天天有。盼信件，盼稿件被采用，盼發(fā)獎(jiǎng)金，盼某事滿(mǎn)意結(jié)果，盼一次聚會(huì)、一次旅行……人就在盼頭中找到了依托。

沒(méi)有盼頭的日子是蒼白不可想象的。人，得天天有點(diǎn)什么盼頭，生活才不至于暗淡。有了盼頭，會(huì)覺(jué)得太陽(yáng)每天都是新的。不管是望梅止渴，還是畫(huà)餅充饑，它都會(huì)激勵(lì)你不停手中的槳，去追逐哪怕是一星微小的火光。

土地去掉水份，就成了沙漠；人沒(méi)有了盼頭，還剩什么？小盼頭支撐人的一天，大盼頭支撐人的一生。

人，是絕不能沒(méi)有盼頭的。

愿大家在2018年都有新盼頭。