June 03rd 2017 Week 22nd Saturday

Truth and roses have thorns about them.

真理和玫瑰，身边都有刺。

Yesterday, I met with a young, beautiful professional lady who works as the senior course consultants at the EF Education.

When talking with such kind of women, I always feel uncomfortable and pay too much attention on my words and behaviours to see if they are appropriate for fear that those discourteous words and behaviours may give a bad impression to them.

In the actual fact, the more you care about your behaviours, the more nervous you will become, and then, the chances of errors will also become higher.

So, just take it easy, when communicating with those beautiful girls or great powers, keep calm and express in a natural way, remember they are nothing but human, the same human as you.

If you always communicate with them in an inferior way, which is really a terrible way of self-discrimination, now that you locate yourself in a disadvantageous status, surely others may have the impression that you are really inferior, naturally you will never exchange your thoughts with them equally.

But such tensions sometimes also do good to us, some people can gain goals and directions from their tensions and actually do better because of them. 

Learn from them, don't be afraid of being hurt by the thorns, once you can bear the pains and grasp them in your hand, you will enjoy their beauty and fragrance.

 

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

生命中最重要的两天，是你出生的那一天，和你弄清楚自己为何而生的那一天。

From Mark Twain.

My parents gave me life, they let me have the opportunity to experience the world.

They have given all they have to me, if possible, they would take care of me for all their life.

But as time goes by, they are getting older, and I am growing up, may be not as strong and powerful as I expected.

They can't provide a life-long shelter for me, and I must build a shelter for myslef and for them, and I must take the responsiblity of supporting a family and taking good care of them, I must make clear what I live for and what I can return back to the world.

But maybe most of us cannot find out why we were born, never mind, that can't prevent us from making our life meaningful.