美文欣賞：給自己的圣誕禮物
有時候，你送給自己的禮物才是最好的禮物。那個圣誕節，我送給自己的是肯定和許諾，肯定自己過去的努力，許諾自己將不懼一切，奮勇向前。那是我曾收到過的最好的禮物，我最珍惜的圣誕禮物。
that christmas eve, the streets of boston were clogged with tourists and locals bundled in wool and flannel. shoppers, hawkers, and gawkers whirled and swirled around me."frosty the snowman," "let it snow!" and "jingle bells" played in stores; on the sidewalks, the street musicians did their best. everyone, it seemed, was accompanied by someone else smiling or laughing. i was alone.
the eldest of a puerto rican family of 11 children growing up in newyork'scrowdedtenements, i'd spent much of my life seeking solitude. now, finally, at 27, a college student in the midst of a drown-out breakup of a seven-year relationship, i contemplated what i'd so craved, but i wasn't quite sure i liked it. every part of me wanted to be alone, but not at christmas. my family had returned to puerto rico, my friends had gone home during the holiday break, and my acquaintances were involved in their own lives. dusk was falling, and the inevitable return to my empty apartment brought tears to my eyes.blinking lights from windows and around doors beckoned, and i wished someone would emerge from one of those homes to ask me inside to a warm room with a christmas tree decorated with tinsel, its velvet skirt sprinkled with shiny fake snow and wrapped presents.
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