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A Lukewarm Moment Although I have recently been under pressure from my three courses leading to less spare time, I keep trying to improve my English, because I like English very much. However, I haven't written any notebooks here over the past few days. Yesterday, I suddenly received some messages from my friend. He wrote that because he hadn't heard from me for a period of time. He decided to go into italki as way of watching over me. Actually, he didn't worry anything of mine, just because italki is considered a place for me to express some of my personal things. Wow, he moved me so! What he cared about reminds me that I am not the only person who is alone, even though I am all by my lonesome. In modern life, we have more responsibilities and problems, but please don't forget simple things in life, such as friendship, neighborhood..etc.. At times, we could boost a lot of get up and go accumulated from those lovely ones.
Oct 25, 2014 4:41 PM
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A Lukewarm Warm Moment

Although I have recently been under pressure from my three courses leading to resulting in less spare time, I keep trying to improve my English, because I like English very much. However, I haven't written any notebooks here over the past few days.

Yesterday, I suddenly received some messages from my friend. He wrote that because he hadn't heard from me for a period of time, he decided to go into italki as a way of watching over me. Actually, he didn't worry anything of mine about me, it was just because italki is considered a place for me to express some of my personal things thoughts. Wow, he moved me so!

What he cared about reminds me that I am not the only person who is alone, even though I am all by my lonesome. In modern life, we have more responsibilities and problems, but please don't forget the simple things in life, such as friendship, neighborhood..etc. At times, we could boost a lot of get up and go accumulated from those lovely ones. At times, we can receive energy and support from these loved ones.

 

Lukewarm is a temperature between cool and warm. To describe with 'lukewarm' is a negative quality, it is saying the moment was colder/less pleasurable than it could have been. (A common phrase is 'a lukewarm reception' meaning a meeting between people was not too friendly, cool.

 

This seemed redundant so I removed it: "even though I am all by my lonesome"

Also, "all by my lonesome" or "all by my lonesome self" is a funny colloquialism that I have never seen written, only spoken. I wonder where you ever heard it!

 

 

November 1, 2014
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