美文欣赏：给自己的圣诞礼物
有时候，你送给自己的礼物才是最好的礼物。那个圣诞节，我送给自己的是肯定和许诺，肯定自己过去的努力，许诺自己将不惧一切，奋勇向前。那是我曾收到过的最好的礼物，我最珍惜的圣诞礼物。
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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