That year, I used the radio.

After dinner, the moon shines brightly on the earth, and the sparkling stars, like gemstones, are embedded in the vast night sky. I am accustomed to a person strolling in the community outside the Century Avenue, watching the colorful neon flashing, any pleasant spring breeze blowing cheeks, enjoying the modern leisure lifestyle. A person walking day seems to be able to think of anything, what can not think. Along the way, everywhere can see the crowd walking, as well as large and small scale square dance scene, I can not help but sigh: now the pace of life is really different ah!

You are my little apple suddenly came from not far away familiar and pleasant song, follow the sound looked, see an old man holding a pocket radio is coming towards me. Seeing this, my soul was suddenly touched, as if to see an old friend who had been absent for more than twenty years, the Butterfly radio I once owned and brought me a turning point in my life.

High school graduation year, my English single subject scores seriously fall behind, leading to the first year of college entrance examination and university missed. During that time, I was very depressed and listless all day long. Faced with a bleak future, helpless how I yearn for English scores to a higher level, to one day round my dream of college ah!

After the college entrance examination failed, because of the limitations of family conditions, I had no choice but to choose the contract teacher profession. During those substitute days, I never gave up my English study. But suffer from no one counseling, progress is always not big, the future is still a bleak, the heart urgently hope to be able to through the radio and other audio teaching assistance, for their English learning can help.

In those days, most people married about three turns (bicycles, watches, sewing machines) and one ring (radio), which shows the importance of radio in people's lives. At that time, ordinary families can have a radio, it is simply a fantasy.

One night, the moonlight was so clear that the stars blinked in the sky. Occasionally, one or two barking dogs could be heard. People had already fallen asleep, but I didn't feel sleepy at all. I vaguely heard the voice of English conversation on the radio from my neighbor's house. My guess is that the neighbor's owner has fallen asleep and forgotten to turn off the radio. Hungry for English, I got up quickly and tiptoed to the alley, listening carefully. I stood there for two hours until the radio stopped, but I still didn't feel sleepy. I was intoxicated by the English conversation on the radio. Since then, I have been itching in my heart, always dreaming that one day, I can really own a radio of my own. But such a dream for a family like ours, is it not an extravagant hope?!

Finally, one day, I came to a pre-emptive, in the absence of parental consent, on their own initiative with the usual savings of 45 yuan money, to the county town to buy back a Shanghai-made butterfly brand desktop radio. Just bought a home, before I had time to appreciate it, I was severely criticized by my uncle and others, saying that I didn't know how to gather money and save it for building a house and marrying a daughter-in-law in the future. No matter how they said it, I ignored it. Anyway, I was Zhang Fei's iron heart and wouldn't go back. In fact, how can they know that I insisted on buying a radio with good intentions ah?

With the radio, I seem to have found a treasure, love. When you have free time, turn on the radio and listen to programs such as novel simulcast and famous book critic Shan Tianfang's Biography of Yue Fei and Yang Family General. Every night, people were already asleep, and I kept listening to English programs on the radio. Over time, I gradually have a perceptual understanding of spoken English ability and improve, but also to their future return to school to continue to make up for the college entrance examination firm confidence. Hard work pays off, that year to participate in the college entrance examination, my English score unexpectedly got 97 points (together with additional questions total score of 110 points), so that teachers and classmates cast admiration and envy eyes, that is, that year I got my wish to enter the university, round my life dream.

He always listened to the radio when his father was alive. Since I went to college, the radio naturally became my father's loyal partner. Every morning before dawn, he would turn on the radio, listen to the news of the day, weather forecast and Liu Lanfang's comments, etc., and go to work in the fields during the day. The radio also accompanied him all the time. My father told stories about me and the radio to everyone, and whenever he mentioned his son in front of relatives and friends, his face always wore a proud smile.

That year, my mother was seriously ill in hospital, feeling irritable, and the empty room was full of the smell of disinfectant. Mother sighed every day, clamoring to be discharged from the hospital, not cooperating with the doctor's treatment. Suddenly, I thought of my radio, mother loves to listen to opera, I give her a good channel every day, let her listen to a quiet paragraph. Mother lay quietly on the bed, her face a little comfortable. Soon, my mother recovered and was discharged from hospital. She and her father often played a small farce in the family because of listening to the drama or listening to the news. That year, my radio became a family regulator, which also made my family occasionally noisy and occasionally laughed, making life full of happiness.

Every winter and summer vacation, the first thing I do when I get home is to pick up my favorite radio and play with it, and I still love it like that.

After several years, after several moves, inevitably have to deal with some old things do not need to use, everything else can be discarded without hesitation, only that radio I regard as a treasure, has been retained to this day, although it has long lost its proper function.

Now has entered the network era, such as mp3 players, mp4 players, walkman, car radio, theater, high-definition video players, elderly radio, singing, square dance and other electronic products overwhelming, traditional radio seems to have withdrawn from the historical stage, but I still have a special liking for it, this is not only nostalgic, but also to remember the happy time it once brought me. Now, this happiness still occupies a corner in my heart, every time I recall it, it is like a stone falling on the water surface, rippling. On weekdays, walking on the road, whenever I see old people carrying pocket radios in their hands or pockets, pacing while listening to news, music, etc., that leisure and comfort makes me envy very much.

In fact, the advantages of radio are many, compared with the current electronic products, one is small radiation, no harm to the human body; the other is not to use flow, save costs, and so on. Although the traditional radio has long been replaced by smart phones, information transmission is many times faster than the radio era, but I still love it that year, I used the radio, because it once accompanied me through the long nights before the college entrance examination. Without it, I wouldn't be here today. Thank you for everything life has given me. While we are feeling the earth-shaking changes in life, we must not forget the hard-won happiness of life.

That year, I used the radio, carrying my dreams, it is my happy partner, it is the cradle of my dreams, it brought me the most abundant spiritual meal in life, it is a recorder of historical changes

Time passes like water. I really want to stay away from the hustle and bustle of the city. I want to walk alone in an empty place, holding my beloved radio and playing with it to my heart's content. I want to find the happy time it once brought me again.