Move from XM to SH

Five months has flown away this year since I moved from a small coastal city in the southeast to another port city in the east of China. Yep, I came to Shanghai again.

Once I wrote a journal when I went to Xiamen (back from Shanghai) to look for a job five years ago. At that time, cheap nfl hats, as a Fujian native, I thought I would probably spend the most of my life in Xiamen, but in the meanwhile I had a hunch that I might move to another city –who knows? Maybe that displayed a naughty girl within my body who was not yet ready to settle down.

In the years to follow, I did not have any courage to make a change of the city, although I thought of good impressions and wonderful moments in Nanjing and Shanghai from time to time. Reasons may be that: firstly, Xiamen bears more comfortable climate with better air quality than Shanghai –never too cold in winter, but having no chance to see snow; secondly, life burden may not be easy to take in Xiamen, but harder in Shanghai –just consider the rental cost; thirdly, I couldn’t turn the clock back even if I came back to Shanghai or Nanjing –I  persuaded myself that the discontent about life won’t change as the environment changes; fourthly, it is my parents’ wish that I can live within the province which is near the home –indeed it can bring many advantages; fifthly, I assume it takes lots of work to move away, and I’d rather stay lazy –especially when new job offer is not confirmed; sixthly, to some extent I have already got used to living in Xiamen –not too far to travel in the downtown (island)…Believe I can list a bit more. Definitely, nfl jerseys cheap, changing a city to live is not an easy decision to make.

So what drove me to make up my mind and come here finally? Some friends, hearing of my movement to Shanghai, thought it was sudden. The decision was in a hurry at the end of last year, even with insufficient time to say goodbye face-to-face to some friends. But the consideration was not in a hurry which I took for around half a year –mostly daydreaming, though. The 3-year contract would soon come to an end in the beginning of this year, and I wanted to transfer to another industry or sector. After a little of unsuccessful application in Xiamen, I thought of the previous Shanghai employer which I did fancy when I worked for a few months. Why not have another try? However, I didn’t expect I would really make it. I mean, when going for the interview, I thought it was either OK for me to stay in Xiamen or move to Shanghai. Simply I took it as a life process. Therefore, when the job offer waved its hand, a stream of sadness suddenly swept over me, for I did not make any true mental preparation to leave Xiamen. Perhaps this is exactly the charming part of life...Well, I am not going to take time to write more details, but all in all, I’ve got a precious work opportunity in Shanghai which could never been obtained in Xiamen. Besides, cheap hats, with the status of being single I thought I still had a chance to move before marriage. And I got support from my dear parents. So now, I am here.

Honestly, I am not certain if Shanghai will be the long-term station. Having moved from Xiamen, I do not intend to move again in a short time and do hope Shanghai can be the option where I live for a longer time. Even if it is a metropolitan which is not quite friendly to people from other provinces in terms of policy and high living cost, life stream has already brought me here. I am going to learn to like what’s chosen.

When I lived in Xiamen, I spent little time in walking around the city, as I thought I’d got plenty of chances to visit in the future. Often after work I got tired and did not want to do anything. Now living in another city, do I think of life in Xiamen? The answer is, yes! While I am in the middle of adapting to the new surrounding, I attempt to spend less time in asking and answering if the decision is truly worthwhile and meaningful, for it doesn’t make any sense. What I’ve learnt and what I’d like to learn further is that life does not lie in anywhere else but at the moment. Cherish the present. This may seem cliché, but usually when I'm unsatisfied with the current life, I assume life may be better in another situation. Just as a child who yearns for growing up quickly will not turn happy as well when he becomes an adult, Cheap jerseys, things will not look different if the mindset remains the same.

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I planned to organize more thoughts but that is all for tonight’s writing.