with an orchid

When I first heard the song “with an orchid,” I was busy preparing for SAT and the enormous vocabulary requirement really drove me mad. Facing Barron Critical Reading and Core Vocabulary 3500 all the time, spending every night in a single room in a library, being frustrated by the score after finishing every practice test, I was really bored and thought life plain. I started to lose the idea why initially I decided to prepare for SAT. People that kind of situation fickleness. I could hardly find a reason to keep fighting.

That was a summer night when I finished a day’s assignment and started to randomly listening to programs on iTunes. I came across the song “with an orchid.” The beginning of the song was like a storyteller slowly saying “A long time ago…” in a quiet background. It was also like the narrow and shadow origin of a stream. I expected the stream would gradually follow wider, but there seemed to be an unexpectable steep cliff—the melody flew suddenly and naturally into a vast plain area, and then it deepened and deepened, sometimes jumped like a naughty child. The night was silent and there was wind. I was guided into a wonderland following the melody.

Just like a cool breeze in the hot summer, or a clear stream going through a desert, the song reminded me of the beauty of life and my dream to explore the outside world. The later part of the song which was magnificent influenced me to look further, beyond the practice themselves to pay more attention on the beauty of the language and the beauty of the writing skills. In that way, the song changed me.