Generational Reflections: A Grandmother's Letter to Grandchildren

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To my beautiful grandchildren,
How are you all today? Today is a very special day that you finally found this letter and have chance to read all my thoughtful words. To this point, you guys should certainly figure out who I am, right? Yes, this is your grandmother who is also as known as “Annie mama” and I’m only 18 years old at the moment. Don’t quickly feel awkward, strange or scared because this is what I’ve been planning to show my next generation grandchildren. In this short letter, I would like to share with you all some interesting information about my generation now, how we entertain ourselves, a little bit about my experience in life, and some advices from the deepest part of my heart to you.
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At the moment, entertainment plays a very indispensable role in the world and teenagers like me would definitely not survive without entertainment. Nowadays, when there’s a variety of high technologies were invented, people started to rely on those technologies to work, study or entertain themselves. For this reason, a lot of people including myself, always use smart phones for surfing social networks, reading news, playing online games, shopping, or showing directions. Furthermore, you can also use high technology to support your studying, working or even constructing. Besides those high-tech, going to the cinema on the weekend, hanging out with friends in any coffee shop, going to the gym or attending in any music festivals, are also common ways to entertain for most people in my …show more content…

Being an international student, I have to face many hardships; and one of the hardest things that I have to suffer is to live independently away from home. Living on your own is always the most difficult situation, yet I’ve been living half of the Earth away from my parents for almost two years now. This experience brought me a lot of mixed feelings. Go back to the day when I decided to leave my country for studying, I finally realized that my life was going to be so different. So it turned out that I have to adapt in a strange independence atmosphere, where there was no one to remind me to clean my room, not to forget my breakfast, to take medicines when I was sick, or to drive my to school everyday. At first, my life was too tough and exhausted, I always wanted to give up, to leave this place and badly felt homesick. Sometimes, I just wanted to return back to my own place, where I can be protected and loved my by parents rather than drowning in a lonely place and face many dangerous kinds of people. As time passed by, I finally stepped out of my comfort zone and started to feel comfortable of my life. Furthermore, I’m attending college at the moment, and this is a quiet new challenging environment that I have to fit in. Through several weeks of school, I realized that I need to put a lot more effort to improve myself, for example: my self-learning skills, time management, motivation, to

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