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Chasing Buses and Embracing Journeys: Finding Harmony in Life’s Flow
It appears that I am perpetually hastening, yet the bus ahead of me still hastens away, leaving naught but my disheartened and weary silhouette. Those exclamations, pursuits, and desperate inhalations persistently reverberate in the desolate platform, lingering, lingering, lingering interminably, akin to despair. Whilst perennially awaiting, destiny wafts past my gaze like billows and vapors, and I am laden with desires as diminutive as ants, an inconsequential and enervated existence, and those fraught with sentiments. Indeed, no one can elude the tribulations and acrimony, and no one can remain indifferent to their own catastrophe. I habitually embark and disembark the bus amidst the throng, incessantly being jostled and metamorphosing. Human…
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Life Lessons on Appreciating Each Moment and Finding Hope Through Hard Times
Some time ago, I received a call from a friend. He has always been an optimistic and sunny person, but when he called me that day, he asked me in a choked voice if I had any money left. His mother had a heart attack and was admitted to the intensive care unit. He urgently needed some money to help her. Operation. After I transferred the money to him, I stood by the window holding my phone and couldn’t help but think of the words “life is impermanent”. We are all pursuing a better life. We want to grow up faster than our parents grow old. We want to mature…
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Moments of Realization: Facing the Complexity of Human Nature and Relationships
“Is this really okay?” she asked, wanting to run away but not determined. It was three o’clock in the morning, they were still awake and tired, she thought she could fall asleep by snuggling, but the boy kissed them. “Okay.” The Bunun boy pulled her up. There was a kind of wildness in his beautiful eyes, and there was a blazing fire in that wildness. She kept looking into his eyes as she ripped off his sports bra, feeling the flames coming out, igniting them, so thick with smoke that she couldn’t see clearly. After graduating, she went to teach in a remote small village. She could advance and retreat…
