在这个纷纭复杂的世界上，我们都该重温儿时的欢乐。

“Up there!”

“On your back!”

“Look out, to your left!”

A shuttlecock shuttled briskly around the dexterous legs of four zealots, flipping and flopping like a light birdie. Coats off, shouting and sweating, they volleyed and kicked the small piece of rubber with colored feathers, trying their best not to have it fall on the icy ground.

I couldn’t help noticing their live spirit, a strong contrast against this freezing early January morning in Beijing Yuan Dadu park: bare trees withering; harsh winds whining; pedestrians covered in heavy coats --- it is almost picturesque.

However, what striked me the most was that they were four women in their forties, shapes a bit chubby with rugged faces – just like any working-class women in a supermarket or a beauty parlor. They were having pure fun --- as simple as not to have the shuttlecock hit the ground.

In this material world where most people greedily strive to gain luxury and fame, working long hours for the coveted BMW or townhouse, they tend to be stressed out from all sorts of worries, and forget the fundamentals of life – to have some pure fun.

But isn’t that why we came to this world in the first place? Haven’t we all enjoyed a childhood of pure fun – those simple little things that lightened our hearts and made the happiest moments of our memories.

The flying shuttlecock started to bring all those flashback moments of my pure fun --- so close, yet so far away:

Stood on skates without stumbling on an ice rink at age six

Jumped out a second-floor window without being hurt – my first little adventure at age eight

Rode a bicycle with only one hand at age ten

Talked to a cute girl that I had a secret crush on, by borrowing a pencil from her after purposely breaking mine --- my first little love encounter at age fourteen

All of a sudden, my adrenaline went crazy. I would like to relive all those moments of pure fun. Aren’t there ice rinks, windows, and bicycles everywhere?

Life, after all, probably is just as simple as kicking a shuttlecock and having some pure fun.