Farewell Message

临别感言

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我必须说，这是跌宕起伏的高中三年。

我们在疫情的幕间迎来建校，又度过数个月晕头转向的线上课程，包括我在内的很多人受到AP考试取消、各种安排被打乱的影响，有一段时间我们每天中午都来A栋做核酸检测。

在这期间，很多人离开，很多人加入，直到今天，我们竟然依旧稳稳当当地坐在这里。

我们，十一个人，还有你们，亲爱的师长、同学，和朋友们。

这是勇气和坚持铸就的奇迹，值得掌声喝彩，不是吗？

我曾经用力地思考过我会成为怎样一个人。怎样一个大人。

我最初的梦想是服装设计师，但我很快意识到那只是我对美的本能追求在作祟，后来我想成为一个编剧，因为我沉迷编织故事的快感。

直到现在，在审视自我与审视他人后，我开始意识到无论我会成为怎样一个人、会做些什么事，只有一个愿望是永恒不变的。

我希望我的灵魂轻盈起来。

我希望能像《百年孤独》里的美人儿蕾梅黛丝一样，逃离被诅咒的宿命，远离低劣的斗争与交缠，像云一样轻轻地飘起来。

不过，我并不想到天上去，我要飘往的方向是人生的旷野。

我知道，这会是一段崎岖艰险的路途，我也知道，我会无数次跌倒又不得不爬起，但是无论如何，我都不想过一种肤浅的生活，我不想寄希望于空渺的乌托邦，我不想敷衍地对待这个世界。

为此，以这里为起点，我决定去认真地体验些什么。我决定去见见这个真实的世界，从网络和奶头乐的迷障中摆脱出来，认识那些住在我的生活之外的人，那些未能体验我所体验的一切的人，那些体验了我未能体验的一切的人。

那些被数万年的海浪冲刷过的岩石，那些冰川、丛林、山峰下的小镇，那些光辉的时刻，那些荣耀的时刻，还有我的呼吸，我的脉搏，我的血液攒攒流动的声音。我的心脏在胸腔里砰砰直跳，就像数亿万年前，这座尚在襁褓中的宇宙对它即将诞生的世界的第一声呐喊。

然后，我决定去思考。

我所学习的一切知识，我认识的一切他人，我经历的一切旅程，它们将延伸至何方，又将被何方接纳？人与人之间那些无时无刻的精妙博弈、斗争、暗藏机锋，还有永恒的友谊，伟大的爱，我要如何举重若轻，又该怎样任其流淌？这个世界的秩序之下隐藏着混乱，混乱之下又隐藏着秩序，我该如何选择，建立秩序，还是忍受混乱？

头顶的星空与心中的道德律令，时代的洪流与历史的漩涡，我们正走向一条独一无二的路，为此，我要审视我所体验的一切，也许我能找到一座灯塔，也许灯塔从未存在，无论如何，思考本身就是明光。

然后，我会经历失败。

我会痛苦，流泪，停滞不前，我要面对无从下手的现实，意识到世界上就是有无论如何都无法扭转的结局。我也许就此拐向一条离奇的岔路，又也许，我重新站起来了。

只是，站起来不是我的义务，我唯一的义务是认清这个世界无论何时都存在一座只属于我的港湾。我的家人、朋友、宠物，或者偶然经过的某朵鲜花。我应该装载回头看的能力，我应该意识到，直线没有端点，它同时向两个方向无限延长。

最后，我要用力地生活。带着世界赋予我的裂痕去生活。就像故意按下发炎的智齿，我要那种烈火，那种激愤，那种力量，我寻求的不是家园，而是永恒的旅程。我的手会抚过一切粗粝的表面，也会创造出一些隽永的、美的东西。

这是我对那片属于我的旷野的畅想，也是我希望你们，我的朋友们，永不停歇的畅想。好消息是，今天就是这畅想开始实现的第一天。毕业不是故事的结局，它只是故事的第一页，我们要踏上新的征程了，为我们的未来喝彩吧。

最后，引用梭罗在《瓦尔登湖》中所写的一段话。

“我步入丛林，因为我希望生活得有意义，我希望活得深刻。汲取生命中所有的精华，把非生命的一切都击溃，以免在我生命终结时，发现自己从来没有活过。”

感谢Ms.Carol，感谢Mr.David Lu，感谢Mr.Hoek和Mr.Santos，感谢Mr.JC，感谢我们的升学指导Ms.Karen，感谢所有教导过我们的老师、支持过我们的家人朋友和陪伴过我们的同窗，感谢我们自己的坚持不懈。

谢谢大家！

I must say that these three years were challenging.

We experienced the founding of Huayao Collegiate during the halftime break of the pandemic and spent several more months of dizzying online classes. Many of us, including myself, were affected by the cancellation of AP exams and the disruption of various schedules, and there was a time when we came to A Building every day at noon for Covid testing.

During this time, many of us left, and many people joined, and until now, how amazing that we are still sitting here today.

We, eleven of us, and you, dear teachers, scholars, and friends.

I would say this is a miracle of courage and perseverance that deserves some applause, wouldn"t you?

I have thought hard about what kind of person, an adult, I would become.

My first dream was to be a fashion designer, but I soon realized that was just my instinctive pursuit of beauty, and then I wanted to be a screenwriter because I was addicted to the thrill of weaving stories.

Only now, after reflecting on myself and others, have I realized that no matter who I will be or what I will do, only one desire remains constant.

I want my soul to be lighter.

I wanted to be like Remedios, the beauty in One Hundred Years of Solitude, who escaped from her cursed destiny, away from the inferior struggles and wrangle, and floated gently like a cloud.

But I don"t want to float to the sky. I want to flow in the direction of the wilderness of life.

I know that it will be a rough and dangerous journey, and I also know that I will fall countless times, but in any case, I do not want to live a superficial life. I do not want to send hope to an empty utopia. I do not want to treat the world perfunctorily.

For this reason, taking this place as the starting point, I decided to experience something seriously. I decided to meet the real world, to escape from the maze of the Internet and tittytainment, to meet those who live outside my life, those who have not experienced everything I have experienced, those who have experienced everything I have not experienced.

The rocks that have been washed by thousands of years of waves, the glaciers, the jungles, the towns beneath the mountains, the moments of glory, the moments of excitement, and the sound of my breath, my pulse, my blood flowing under my skin. My heart thumped in my chest like the first cry of this universe hundreds of millions of years ago to the world it would soon explode into.

Then, I decided to think.

All the knowledge I have learned, all the individuals I have known, all the journeys I have experienced, where will they extend to, and where they will be accepted? How do I weigh the game theory, the struggles, the hidden agendas between human, and the eternal friendship, the greatness of love, how do I let it flow? Under the order of this world lies chaos, and under the chaos lies order. How do I choose, to establish order, or to endure chaos?

With the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me, the torrent of the times, and the whirlpool of history, I am on a unique path, and for this, I will examine everything I experience. Maybe I will find a lighthouse, or perhaps it never existed. In any case, thinking itself is the light.

Then, I will experience failure.

I will suffer, I will weep, I will stagnate, I will face the reality that there is no way to start, I will realize that there is an ending in the world that cannot be reversed, whether how hard I try. I may turn down a bizarre fork in the road, or maybe, I will get back up.

But it is not my duty to stand up. My only duty is to recognize that the world has a harbor that belongs to me whenever and wherever I am—my dear family, my friends, my pets, or a flower that blooms to pass by. I should be loaded with the ability to look back. I should realize that a straight line has no endpoint. It extends infinitely in both directions at the same time.

Finally, I should live hard. Live with the cracks the world has given me. Like deliberately pressing an inflamed wisdom tooth, I want that fire, that fury, that power, that I seek not a home but an eternal journey. My hands will stroke over all the coarse surfaces, but still, I can create something timeless and beautiful.

This is my vision of the wilderness that belongs to me, and the vision that I hope you, my friends, will never stop thinking about. The good news is that today is the first day when this dream begins to come true. Graduation is never the end of the story; it is only the first page. We are embarking on a new adventure today. Congratulations!

Finally, I would like to quote a line from Thoreau in Walden Lake.

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."

Thank you Ms.Carol. Thank you Mr.David Lu. Thank you Mr.Hoek and Mr.Santos. Thank you Mr.JC. Thank you our college counselor Ms. Karen. Thank you to all the teachers and faculties who have taught us, all the friends and family who have supported us, and all the classmates who have accompanied us. And thank you to ourselves who never gave up.

Thank you all!

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昆山狄邦华曜学校

原(昆山市上海华二学校)

2023-2024学年 招生计划

幼儿园至高一 (10年级)

5年级开始提供住宿

2-16岁中外籍学生

由狄邦教育集团与华东师范大学第二附属中学共同创办

以”勇于探索、追求卓越”为使命

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