I’m always desperate because there are so many unlucky things for me to be. I’m 26 years old, still achieve nothing. My girlfriend just broke up with me. I have no unique skill to support myself. I work in the company without any brilliant future and my dream just seems so far away. Now I can only earn money enough for several square meters per year, no hope to buy house… Thinking of all those things, I seem not to have reason to be optimistic

Today I just watched the TV drama about Lu Shang again during lunch. When he was thirty, he began to learn Taoism and kept learning it for forty years. When he was seventy, he came down the mountain. He had neither career or love. Finally with the help of a friend, he was able to get married at 72 years old. He just tried all kinds of things to support his life, but failed all of them, finally even his wife deserted him. He had nothing, even the youth (×He owned nothing at all, not even youth).

But he was never pessimistic and still ambitious. When he was 80 years old, he just used angling as an excuse to attract King Wen and finally started to serve him to make contribution glorious for thousands of years. It would never be too late even he did a lot of things before and none of them fitted him. I’m still not 80 years old now, so why do I need to be desperate? Even I’m 80 years old now, so what? Lu Shang still can be successful, I have no reason to be desperate.

Never be pessimistic while you’re alive. If you try your best, chance will come sooner or later, maybe some people get it earlier, only you get it late. By the way, it’s also important to know what things are appropriate to you.