Though the name of the song is Boulevard of Broken Dreams, I listened it a lot of time while I was chasing my dream. I first heard the song when I was in high school. For the whole album, I remembered only this one. Someone interprets the theme of the song as “loneliness and sadness” because of the lyrics “i'm the only one and i walk alone i walk alone i walk alone i walk alone i walk alone”. People who live in an unfamiliar city alone may share the same feeling with the author. Especially when the city is getting dark, people walking to home by himself, it is true that the ideology of the song is about a broken dream.  However I listened to the song each time when I was running. I used to be a chubby girl in the school. After I was laughed by one of my friends unintentional, I decided to start running. It was odd such a song about broken dreams cheered me a lot. I did not feel sad at all when I listened to this song. Actually when I was so tired that I decided to quit, this song made me more energetic.

At first when I decided to use running to lost weight my mom did not support me. She thought being chubby was not a bod thing for teenagers and she also thought running would waste of my study time. I ignored her protest and kept my routines of running every day. Actually running was a very good way for me to release pressure of  my study.Even though my mom did not support me I keep running as a habit as a way of release pressure until now. Like the lyrics of the song, I may be a lonely person while I was running, I did achieve a good result both of my academics and sports.

Common Gestures in My Country

When two people greeting each other in China, the greeting gesture must be shaking each other’s hands without a doubt. Especially for people who work for government agencies, it is the best way to show their politeness the identity they owned and the well education they have received. Unlike people from other countries in Asia like Japan and South Korea, Chinese people rarely bow to each others. I know it is a kind of culture of Japanese people like waiters or sales to bow to customers to show their thanks. In South Korea, women even go down on their knees to welcome their husbands home. Chinese women never do this is mainly because they have their own career, they are not housewives whose living is rely on husbands. Both husbands and wives have equal rights in the family.

Chinses people are usually shy, so we do not kissing and hugging each other when we meet our friends even if we may know each other since we were kids. Shaking hands as a greeting gesture is a more official way to some extent. There is one time my parenets brought me to dinner with their friends most of whom are civil servants. When my mother introducing me to them, some of the uncles skaking their hands with me. I think the scene must be very funny if someone take photos of it. I was like only 15 or 16 years old. I just started to hate things like having dinner with unfamiliar elderships. Shaking hands for me was more like a hypocritical behavior.