Enjoy the present

When I was skimming xiaonei (the facebook for Chinese students), I read a survey among my high school friends. In the survey they were asked if you had had a chance to spend a year in senior 3 again with the same classmates and teachers, were you willing to do so? More than 70% of my friends said yes. At first sight I was quite surprised, because almost everyone regarded senior 3 as a nightmare when we were experiencing it. Then I asked myself what I would choose. Thinking of piles of reference books, endless homework, frequent examinations, lack of sleep, so limited exercise time and so on, I hesitated for a long time, however, I still chose I would like to.
When we were in senior 3, all we could feel were press and tension. Complains about these made us ignore lots of meaningful and wonderful things in our live and study. The thought that once we enter university we will be totally free and relaxing urged us to be more fed up with our high school live and envision wonderful university lives. Now we are really in universities. Looking back at our senior 3 live, we begin to fix more attention on the wonderful memories which had been ignored before, especially when compared with our university live.
It is true that we gain more freedom and relaxation when in university. We don’t have to stay in the same classroom and the same seat from 7am to 10 pm every day. Teachers won’t urge us to finish our homework and do as many exercises as possible. No teacher will come to class in a sudden to catch students chatting and punish them. There are not tests every week. No ranks will be posted…… However, when we enjoy the freedom and relaxation, we lose something as well. In senior 3, about 70 students studied in the same classroom for such a long time that we were quite familiar with every classmate. During breaks we had mutual topics and many people would join. We had many responsible teachers who were willing to sacrifice their own time to help us make progress. We could find many interesting elements in even trivial things and laughed for a long time. We had the satisfaction of accomplishing a good test paper. All these little happiness and concern help build our live so colorful. What a pity that we did not realize them before.
These days when my friends and I feel bored and are not satisfied with our current live, we talk about our beautiful memories in senior school. Nevertheless, I can’t always live in the past and fill myself with nostalgia. I have already felt regret that we just complained and did not treasure good times in high school. Now in university there are things that don’t appear as expected, but I have to change my attitude and appreciate good things I can enjoy as an undergraduate. Only by doing so, will I enjoy my university live and not regret.