Written by Pham Thi Le Na
This is my special gift to our beloved students, and hope that we will all fly like dragons this year, guys
I am extremely surprised with the news that this year is going to see an exponential rise in the birthrate in Asian nations, typically, China and Vietnam for the belief that any child who comes in being in this special period is endowed with a lucky life. For years, dragon has been regarded a legendary animal and associated with power, activeness, superiority and other good traits. Hoping that their off-springs to have the same life as the dragons’, millions of young couples try their utmost to have babies and problems, however, remain that the population explosion might happen. According to several experts, this rage is likely to result in a gloomy picture, though.
First of all, that people think children are born this year are lucky purely originates from the unfounded belief, without any empirical research. Second, as they grow up, ready to take the entrance exams and seeking for jobs, competition between babies of this year escalates ceaselessly. The higher unemployment rate on the horizon is imminent, let alone probably an increased crime rate and the shortage of housing. Perhaps, to people working in the real estate, this could be a positive signal, as a result of the fact that the demand for housing during that epoch is on the climb, pushing the price to the rocket and greatly benefiting them while their parents who dedicate their lives to buying houses for their dragon-year-born children are dissatisfied. Put in this context, little kids and then dragon adults are, instead of enjoying a life of a dragon as claimed, working laboriously to be able to find a lucrative job and then purchase a house. Others subscribe to the mindset that owing to the fact that dragons are unreal animals, kids are supposed to be impractical, living a life of everything in between, barely possible to adapt to the harsh realities and ending up in rags, unfortunately. Too, in case of numerous females or males being born in this year, the matter of marriage imbalance, again, crops up, driving their parents and themselves nuts.
On the other side, optimists hold the idea that the undeniable and higher rivalry between dragon kids and grown-ups is a catalyst for the growth. From the early childhood, these children are conditioned to train themselves in a competitive environment and learn the idea “the survival, the fittest”. The entire society, also, work hard to make sure that to winnow the best one among the capable dragons, the organization of entrance exams and recruitment prove transparent. Once the real estate is gaining its gear again, the world’s economy is booming, casting away the cloudy frozen market that we are suffering right now. At the same time, the population imbalance in gender is not always that bad, and on the contrary, the international marriages to compensate the lack of dragon males or females in Vietnam or China are inevitable, strengthening the next generations’ genes and cementing bilateral relation between nations. More dragons, more saviors, as said in the old story “The dragons fly in the sky, and later swing down to rescue the needy”. That is the main rationale that despite the desperate picture some pessimistic flesh out, children of dragon years are still born, increasingly. Well, the arguments for or against this trend never end, and it is up to each person to choose to give birth this year or not. The most important, after all, is that the child is born hale and hearty.