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      <title>The Changing Scenes of Life</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A man can never be permanently cheerful, since it is almost a risky state. When there is a reason to be exalted, it is accompanied by the risk that this elated feeling&amp;nbsp;may be challenged&amp;nbsp;by the suspicion of a contrary reason. When you feel brave enough to conquer any hardship, you will be ...]]></description>
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      <title>Driven by Love</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[At the age of thirty-five, which is not relatively young, I almost feel abashed when I feel  “driven by love.”&amp;nbsp;I can sense it that love despises me when I give myself up to “lying flat”, and mocks me when I make superabundant oaths of resolution. People have experienced love—but I haven ...]]></description>
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      <title>Inward Happiness</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The people living most difficultly are those who never seek happiness from within. They are too often expecting motive force from the outside, from validation to admiration. As Seneca observes,  “A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone; a fool is never more alone than when he is in  ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 07:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>2025-12-12</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The more one is obsessed with competing with others, the less likely they are to win—for subconsciously, people tend not to compete with&amp;nbsp;those they see as inferior.    &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;      Busying   one  self with  &amp;nbsp;futile  &amp;nbsp;tasks is still more valuable than doing nothing at all.     ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 09:58:28 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>2025-12-09</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A writer initially crafts with knowledge, but later evolves to write with consciousness.      &amp;nbsp;      If you know that you take a lifetime to live life, there in your heart will not be much anxiety.      &amp;nbsp;      What makes you is not what you will do or should have done, but what you have ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 08:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Living a Regular Life</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It is impossible for us to live our entire lives with the same precision and rigidity as we did in high school—arriving, attending classes, and leaving at fixed times every day. Many people’s work are called “nine-to-five,” yet they still have “overtime” and “approved leave.” When we talk  ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 13:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Struggle: the Posture of Life</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It makes no sense to be compared with anyone in the aspect of excellence, whether they are better or poorer than you. Moreover, the same applies to comparison with yourself: it is more often than not a fallacy that with hard graft, inevitably you push forward. However, does it utterly prove that t ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2025 10:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>The Depth of Summer</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In the depth of summer, the vigor of everything seems to reach its fusing point. The sound of birds is droopy, the shades of trees shrink, and one joke is that the sun protection masks have prevented leers at many girls whose faces are possibly attractive. However, if a person wants to get some rel ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2025 10:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>The Spirit of Ants</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The way a human lives his life may be divided into two natures: having a superfluity of things to do, and having a scarcity of those. The former makes the man regrettably give up some activities before he could perform the others adequately; the latter deprives gradually the meaning of life, just  ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 06:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Writing Independently</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[These days I am horrified by the way AI scrutinizes my writings, of which every detail carries flaws, and I almost make up my mind to only write in Chinese and translate it into English as if the latter were still written by myself   —  after all, the thoughts and ideas are still mine, so that  ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 13:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Never Look Down on Anyone</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Days ago, I went on a trip to Beijing with my mom and an elderly couple who are our relatives. The elderly have little education, which I understood from the beginning. Although the grandmother was like this, her temperament and character were very good. However, her husband made me furious: his b ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Living a Life of Ease</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Yu Minhong once quoted a popular question in his essay  Living a Life of Ease : What can you abundantly do in one minute? He gave several examples: reading several hundred words of a book, doing dozens of sit-ups, and so on. He then criticized this line of thinking as “lust for quick success.”  ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2025 14:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>The Terrifying AI</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Over a decade ago, with only the aid of a dictionary and largely relying on my own abilities, I wrote my first English article not meant for an exam. At the time, I was quite proud of myself, believing I could continue down this path. As it turned out, I became utterly absorbed in writing, and af ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2025 11:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Love</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Love is the thing I yearn for most yet find most unattainable; I cannot even approach it anymore. Desire and despair are like unbreakable iron chains bound to my head and feet, cruelly dismembering me by pulling in opposite directions. My soul cannot live without love,   like  &amp;nbsp;my life must  ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2025 11:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Illness</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[From the moment we are born, we are “constantly” falling ill, and I am no exception. As the saying goes, “birth, aging, illness, and death” are inevitable parts of life, yet those who “pass away peacefully without illness” are truly rare. Recently, I caught a cold again—it started with a so ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 12:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Mother &amp; Dumplings</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[My mom loves making dumplings—though perhaps “love” isn’t quite a proper word. It’s more like a kind of persistence, similar to how I obsess over English. It’s tiring work, yet she often can’t ignore it. Take today, for example. Once again, “always defying the usual,” she didn’t spend he ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 12:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>The Cat</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[That skinny tabby cat might have passed away, as I didn  ’  t see it today,   while  &amp;nbsp;its physical condition wouldn  ’  t have allowed it to simply wander off temporarily. If it did wander away, it likely went to some secluded corner to wait for its final breath. When it was still around,  ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>To Be Extraordinary</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I have always longed to be an extraordinary person, like a writer, poet, or artist, who possesses a  &amp;nbsp;  unique  &amp;nbsp;inner world that is concretely manifested  —something that   can yield great  &amp;nbsp;piece  s  &amp;nbsp;of work. It is   such  &amp;nbsp;a truth that most people on earth have a gre ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 14:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Pursuit</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[My mother is an ordinary person. When asked about her pursuits, she says   they are all about  &amp;nbsp;  the   happy life  &amp;nbsp;of her son  . There is no greatness more   unadorned in this hope  . I also have my own pursuits. Rather than seeking a comfortable and carefree life or such a philosophy ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 08:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>The Breeze</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The breeze lightly dances    To the melody of itself    I hear the chuckles that travel    By the gaps of leaves    &amp;nbsp;    The trill of a sparrow    Feigns distracting the rhythm    Wait for summer’s ballad    She is on the threshold]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 10:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
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