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Sunday, July 08, 2007 Ack Windz beat me to 500 posts. So, uh, congrats! Even though I think I started my blog before his, but I've got 1.5 years more of NS than he does. Well, whatever. Anyway it is impossible to know what is happening just from reading blogs, especially blogs like yours and mine, that weaves the words into a screen, that blurs reality for public consumption. So I told D and PF once, that I do not assume people read my blog. And it doesn't really make a difference even if they do. And since it doesn't matter, then it doesn't really matter whether I blog or not. Because I did have something to blog about in the morning, before the family went to the park, but now I can't get the feeling across right. Anyway, it's impossible to convince oneself to be happy or not. When things happen to make one happy, then one is happy. What makes the difference is how we react to the bad things that happen. 常言道：知足常乐, when we are content with what we have and what we can get then we do not feel sad, then we will only enjoy happiness. Whereas if we let the bad things get to us, sometimes to the extent that it overwhelms whatever happiness we do feel.. Hence the talk about convincing oneself to be happy: things happen that make us happy, but we're so engrossed in our sadness that we think our happiness is artificial, and in a way we hate ourselves for feeling happy (as in "发生了这种事你还笑得出来") and everything goes downhill from there. It's a sign of maturity, I feel, to be able to take life's many disappointments with equanimity, not just in appearance, but in the heart as well. It's something that I doubt many people are able to do, regardless of their age. It's another sign of maturity, when we do not let life's bitterness numb our senses to life's sweetness, that we do not let ourselves wallow in self-pity and misery, that we do not turn turtle whenever we suffer a prick, but continue to make our way through the world with our heads held high (of course, be smart enough to do something about it, like wear some armour or something).
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