I Keep a Gratitude Journal

Brother s leaving tonight and his wife will leave tomorrow for emigrating to another country. Was upset last week seeing they moved out and their room became empty. Tonight I no longer felt upset seeing they leave. This place is so hard and expensive to live in, seeing it declining with increasing manipulation and control from the mainland china; it s better for anyone who cannot adapt to these changes to leave for good. Maybe one day I will leave too. In 28 years, all our history and culture in the past century under the colonial governance would be erased. There will not be any "one country two systems" 50 years after the 1997 handover. By then, the passport, currency, legal system, language, etc. that we have will all vanish. Everything here would become a dream that a minority among the dozen billions of people in this country that have once had. It will be the end of the world that only people who are born and live here would understand.


I should be grateful that my sibling and his wife can leave. And be grateful that I can still prepare to leave.