It is quite common to see that, a long queue wait outside a new restaurant. If you ask any one of them, he or she will tell you, “It is said that the dish here is unique.” Or, “My workmate had just recommended it to me.” After tasting the great new flavor, they all look so satisfied. But do all of them enjoy it? I don’t think so, since every one has his own preference. Then why every one behaves like this? That’s the power of popularity.
Watching the TV show which you are not interested in, listening to the music which only let you wonder if the composer is trying to murder all the listeners, waiting outside the new Japanese restaurant to eat the newest sashimi, which really makes you feel disgusting, all of the activities, you are doing these not for enjoying your life, but for looks like the same with everybody else, so you could be popular too. You don’t want to be a weird guy who knows nothing about American Idols.

For every festival there would be a problem on the presents. Different people prefer different things. If you are going to send various gifts to lots of people, that’s a hard job.
First of all you have to figure out every one’s habit. Who likes playing basketball, who prefers jogging, and who enjoys cooking?
Then you have to know what things they already hold. No one would be happy to have the same thing as the gift. This job is even hard. We are not spies, if we are not very familiar with each other, how can we know what they already have?
OK now you know what you are going buy. Then you have to check your wallet to see if it is thick enough to pay all these. Maybe that’s the hardest part of all these?

Generally speaking, if you are invited to a ball, the invitation will come to you a week or two earlier than the party time. If this is a form party, the invitation will come even a month earlier. If you haven’t got the invitation 3 days before the party, you will realize that you are not welcomed by the host. Every body knows this, but hardly anyone dare to admit this. People will find lots of excuses for the host, “He would call me at the last minute and give me a surprise.” “He is too busy to check all the invitations. He must forget about sending mine.”
How about there still is no invitation till the party time? Then they will find other excuses for themselves. “Such party is too boring.” “I won’t go there anyway.” They try to behave like they refuse the invitation, but we all know that’s not true.

It is the common sense that we need to pay for the stuff we buy, we need umbrellas when it rains, and we will get praised when we do something good. What will happen if the world is adverse?
Maybe we don’t need money at all! When we buy a book, we don’t have to pick out our wallets, in the contrary, the cashier will give you a bunch of cash. If you order a new car, you don’t need to worry about the bill anymore. When you get the new car, you will find it is full of cash. The only thing you need to do is to find a place to store the money. There are beggars too, but they are begging you to take some money from them since they can not find anywhere to store it.

For lots of cases, when we want to make judgment to someone to see if he pay enough attention to his duty, we will consider what an ordinary person in a like position would exercise under similar circumstance.
But how can we define “an ordinary prudent person”? Dose Mr. Ordinary always behaves like a model citizen? Maybe Mr. Ordinary is living a life which we can easily find in the text books. Mr. Ordinary gets up at 7 in the morning, and then he takes a shower. After the shower, he sits before the table with the breakfast on it. While having the breakfast, he will watch TV to see what’s new in the world. He will care about the economical new, and the political head lines, but he pays no attention to the entertainment.
While Mr. Ordinary is working in the office, he won’t flirt with the ladies, but just pay undivided attention to the paper work. He has no bad habits, he never smoke, although he will drink a little before sleeping. Can such a person be called an ordinary prudent person?

Can you dance like no one is watching? I can’t.
It’s a nice day today. The sky is so blue that reminds the pure water, the sunshine is so bright that I would like to lie on the lawn. But as you know, I won’t do that. No matter how I want to dance with the falling leaves, I won’t do that. I always remind myself that I am no longer a little girl.
But while I was walking to the classroom, I saw some one dancing there. That’s a young girl. 7 years old? She looks so cute. She turned round with the rhythm of the leaves, moving like a fairy. People stopped to watch her, but she didn’t mind that all. She was so deep in her own world, no matter what was going on outside.
I envied her.

Someone is crying everyday, “I am too busy. I don’t have time for this, I don’t have time for that.” It seems that this guy is always doing something, and he really spends much more time than other before the computer. But if you pay attention to what he is doing, you will be doubtful. Clearly, he may use 1 hour or two to receive the e-mails, and most of the emails are junks. Then he starts to collect information from the internet, while he may log on to an entertainment website to relax for a while. Soon the morning is no longer here.
The lunch time, he may have a date, and of course it’s for business purpose. The afternoon, he has to waste two hours to recover his computer operating system. It’s too slow! Finally the computer is OK. Then he repeats what he dose in the morning.

Now we all think that Angela will give up. She said she will. She said she had no inters in others’ things, no matter how attractive the things will be.
After the date, Angela hasn’t talk to us for a whole day. That’s too strange. She is such a talkative girl, no matter where she is, her sound and laughter will fill the place. But that day, she refused to talk to anyone.
The next day, she came to me.
“I made my decision.” She said, with every word so clearly.
“Well?” I looked at her strangely.
“I will go on date him.”
“What?” I was totally shocked. That’s doesn’t sound like Angela.
“I’m sorry. I know it is not right. But I really fell like that we are made for each other. I can’t just give up like this.”
I don’t know what to say. Should I support her? Should I ask her to stop?

Since our family recipe, I do enjoy spicy food. A curry dish is almost my favorite. And if I could choose, I will put chili as much as I can. Yes the spice may make me can not feely my lips, and I will sweat, my nose will turn to red, my tear may even get down. But I still can not resist the joy spicy food brings. Especially when I feel down and blue, it can really cheer me up and let me feel alive again. I don’t know whether this is because the taste can bring me back to my childhood, or the tears went down and the sweat streamed out take away the bad emotion.
But unfortunately seldom friends can share the joy with me. Instead, if someone has some spicy food with me, he often complains to me that the chili is playing hell inside. What a pity.

Jasmine is in bad mood these days. She finally said good bye to her boyfriend. They broke up with each other not for feelings, they still love each other and this could easily be told. But they have different life targets. It is too hard for them to share the rest of life together.
It is not easy for them to make such a decision. We all see how weak Jasmine became.
Recently, Jasmine spent a lot time with us. Sometimes she came to our party, and just sat there without any word. She used to preferring alone, and apparently she didn’t enjoy our parties. Maybe she is just too afraid of being alone. We all know that who she wants to see, none of us could make her feel better.