August 07th 2017 Week 32nd Monday

Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.

生活只是由一系列下决心的努力所构成。

Some people say it is not your abilities but your decisions that determines what your life is and what your future will be.

Nevertheless, to some extent, I have some reservations to this opinion.

Actually, I think it is a chicken and egg problem, our decisions and our abilities are constantly interacting with each other.

Strong abilities lead to better decisions, and good decisons can promote the developments of one's abilities.

Now that my abilities are not strong, and I always think I had choszen the wrong decisions on some critical moments in my life, maybe the important thing I should bear in my mind is that I must avoid making negative decisions in the current low time, and I should improve my abilities so as to choose the right way in the next crossroad.

Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods.

The storm will pass, and the spring will come.

 

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

我不同意你说的话，但我会誓死捍卫你说话的权利。

From Evelyn Beatrice Hall.

This quote is very familiar to most of us, but I didn't know who said it, now I know.

Besides, for quite a long time, people think that it was said by the famous French writer and thinker, Voltaire.

In the actual fact, according to some historic researches, Voltaire had never said it, and it first appeared in the book, The Friends of Voltaire, written by Mrs. Evelyn Beatrice Hall, an English writer.

In other words, it was fabricated by Mrs. Hall.

But the thoughts it passed to us are quite right. We must always pay enough respects to other's rights, even we cannot say yes to their views or their claims.

If we can't do that, we may miss the potential chances of understanding the same thing from different angles, and we may lose the opportunities of letting other people understand our opinions.

Respects and empathy are always multilateral.

Never forget why I started, and then I can accomplish my mission eventually.