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Are you living your dreams? I’ve been asked this question frequently by many of people I met. My answer is always “yes.”

 I wasn’t sure what I wanted to be when I grew up when I was a child but I knew I wanted to live in a foreign country where it snows all winter long. 

Many years later, I moved to the other side of the ocean,  currently living in Chicago where it snows regularly in winter. So, I could say my dream came true. BUT, here is a catch. I like snow but I can’t take long dark winter. The longer I live in Chicago,  the less I feel I live in an exotic place and the challenges of being a foreigner are not getting easier. 

So, the lesson here is, be careful what you wish for. It mat not be what you are looking for. 

Every May, I make a small flower bouquet and bring it by my friend’s grave side. He is just a friend who I went out dinner with other friends, laughed and cried together, or called middle of night when I was having difficult times, or some times we had disagreements. And I thought this norm for us continues for long time, even we get old we do the same.
For our friendship, there isn’t tomorrow, next week, nor next month. Life is unpredictable. Do it now, don’t wait.

On a clear autumn morning, I stood between there used to be the Twin Towers and anxiously waited for a friend to arrive. Since my last visit of 2005, the site was converted into the 9-11 memorial. The monument is extremely simple yet emits powerful messages, two man made waterfalls flow into the grounds, at the foot of the original Twin Towers
As I stood there, I vivid memories of that day came back to me. It has been almost 15 years and I wasn’t even in the New York City, yet I still remember everything I have done from the moment I woke up to the moment I went to bed,

2015 came and went, and I said exactly the same thing at the beginning of 2015. I don’t know what did but I know what I didn’t do. I haven’t written a blog since May. That is not a good thing if I want to keep the readers.

Wish you a happy new year!