G2让我伤感ZT

G2让我伤感

今天一大早，打开几乎所有的美国各大新闻或报纸网站，你都可以显著位置看到类似这样的醒目标题：China Passes Japan as Second-Largest Economy，当然，还有无数网民的comments。

作为一个生活在海外的中国人，虽然对中国成为G2毫不奇怪，但是，当我看到这真正出现在头版，并被美国人所热议的时候，心中仍然不免感慨万千。而在这些感慨之中，最让我唏嘘的，是我只能作为一个自豪的旁观者，在海外默默地注视着一切。

在The New York Times上，有一个22岁年轻中国人的comments，我把它全文摘录：

I am a Chinese. I am 22 years and have been living in a city locates in the southwest of China for most of my life. When I was a teenager, not a single Chinese I knew owned a car. Neither my family or I ever dreamed of owning a private car. But 2 years ago, my parents who were in their 50s brought their first car, a Honda. Owning private cars is not unusual to Chinese anymore. Today some many Chinese have private cars that there is even an acute shortage of parking lot in my city. And just this morning, when I commuted to a nearby downtown area, I saw the four-lane road swarming with private cars during rush hours.

Unlike Americans who get their driver's licenses at an young age, Chinese get their driver's licenses at an older age. Because it is still unusual for Chinese parents to buy their teenage children cars. College students here normally don't own a car either. But this is going to change soon. Most of my friends in college are learning how to drive, even though they not yet own a car. It's because they are confident about the future. They know life will only get better.

It reminds me of something my mother once told me. Growing up in Mao's year, my mother said that the best things that a household back then could ever dream of were " a bicycle, a watch, a sewing machine and a radio".

我很羡慕他，羡慕他的年轻。而我自己，最有活力最有斗志的年代，是在国外度过的：完成学业，找工作，结婚生子。和大部分海外华人一样，来到国外后，我仍然和国内的亲人和朋友保持着联系，从中感受他们的拼搏、成功、失败、喜悦、烦恼，祖国的一切都让我挂牵，但是，也仅此而已，因为我不能说我真正做了什么。就我个人而言，国家给我的太多，而我回报得太少，我的所有教育都是免费的，房子单位分的，职称、职务组织评的，我曾以为那些是我应得的，但是现在知道我其实是占了国家便宜的，而且这便宜怕是一辈子也没法还清了，惭愧啊。回头看，我确实错过了参与一个时代的变迁，也错过了很多机会。虽然，机会在高速发展的中国仍然有许多，但是，现实和年纪，已经不容许我走回头路了，我注定只能默默祝福，祝福祖国和人民天天向上。

GO, CHINA! GO!