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；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.

細娃盼過年，大人盼開春。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)；盼的欲望更加強烈，盼的內(nèi)容也漸漸豐富了：盼有好成績畢業(yè)，盼有一份好工作，盼事業(yè)有成，盼掙錢替父母分憂，盼令人滿意的生活……不知不覺，天天踩著石階而上，自己竟成了一個大男人，一個掙錢養(yǎng)家糊口的忙碌人了。

生活開始變得復(fù)雜。然而，無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)獎金，盼某事滿意結(jié)果，盼一次聚會、一次旅行……人就在盼頭中找到了依托。

沒有盼頭的日子是蒼白不可想象的。人，得天天有點什么盼頭，生活才不至于暗淡。有了盼頭，會覺得太陽每天都是新的。不管是望梅止渴，還是畫餅充饑，它都會激勵你不停手中的槳，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，是絕不能沒有盼頭的。

愿大家在2018年都有新盼頭。