Millennium
July 24, 2006God, please hear the prayer of a humble Chinese…
Negligible though I am, I won’t give up my hope, for there are millions of “negligible” men in this country, whose efforts will never prove futile. I believe, in a few decades or longer, Chinese people will live in a better world, where there are neither luxury vehicles nor impoverished beggars, where life will be fairer, need will be rarer, and greed will not pay. Our freedom will no longer be taken away by any evil regime. No one will depress us, deprive us, or deceive us. And we will learn to be more open and more reasonable to all different ideas. We will not be blinded by the irrational pride and hatred which only belong to the history marked by nationality. We will forgive the crimes a few Japanese had committed in the last century. We will regard Taiwanese and Tibetans as a separate nation, if independence is really better for them. We will not launch any wars or conflicts because all nations are our brothers and sisters, even though we don’t live in the same country…
