Serenity

(Originally written in 2006/12/22)

Summer’s Left is the name of one of my favorite piano songs. About three years ago, I found a rearrange piano album named Kanon Air Piano Arrange Album “Re-feel” (also known as Re-feel for short) on the Internet. I loved this album very much, so I asked my friend’s help to buy this CD from Japan because it didn’t sell in Taiwan. The price index in Japan is higher than the one in Taiwan, so I paid about NTD 700 which was the double of the normal price for CDs in Taiwan, however, it was worthy! I have listened to this album for hundreds times.

Bulletin Board System (abbreviated as BBS) is one of the services in the Internet. It was invented from a western country, but it was populated in Taiwan. Foreigners don’t understand why Taiwanese like to use this service so much because it is not convenient in deed; however, it has a kind of magic power.

One of my younger friends had read the book Into the Wild and he seemed to like this book very much, so I went to the library and borrow it. There was a story about why this book was published. At first, there was small news about an anonymous young man who died in Alaska, and then his friends identified who he is. The young man, Christopher McCandless, is well-educated, smart and strong in sports. Nobody knows why he went to the wildness in Alaska and finally died there. Therefore, Jon Krakauer, the editor of Outside Magazine, wrote a report on this. Many readers wrote mails to Jon after they read this report. Some of them gave positive comments such as brave man to the young man, while some of them gave negative ones such as reckless and arrogant boy. On the other hand, some of the young man’s friends shared what they knew about Christopher and they wanted to know why Christopher died there because they thought that Christopher was strong enough to live everywhere and he definitely didn’t go to their suicide. This brought Jon an idea to dig out what happened to Christopher.

( This articled have been revised by Magar. )

Speaking of making money, why should we care this so serious? Sometimes people chase the way of making money and lose their ways in life. Therefore, before we start thinking of how to make more money, maybe we should think what life is first.

When I was a boy, I only knew that I should study hard and get a good record of formal schooling, so I can have a good salary. However, because of many people have the same thoughts, there are more people have college degree than before. What’s worse is that even master degree is not valuable as before.

Recently there is too many things to do, and I found that I was lack of the power to execute all things soon. Therefore, I go to the library to borrow the book “Execution”. I think it may tell me how to execute well. For example, how can I live with more energy, or tell me a story that makes me have new positive thoughts. In fact, I was wrong; it is a book about management.

When it was winter, I didn't like the cold weather, and I thought that higher temperature is better than lower one. But now I think cooler is better than hotter.

When we were children, we were on the road which our parents had set up. Sometimes the road is similar to others, or we can call it the road of the expectation of the society, for example, having a master or doctor degree.