It was Sunday today, there was no need for me to say, it was Sunday indeed. I tried to read something, but felt sleepy. It was a strange thing, probably I was old? I never felt sleepy before while reading. I had a nap and continued to read my books, but then felt sleepy again. I read and read again without knowing what I was reading about, so I called it the end.

I thought my reading spirit was low, originally I thought probably the books weren’t good. Just thought of Chairman Mao, I should learn his reading spirit. Reading was the biggest pleasure of his life, I couldn’t attain this kind of status, but at least I should try. Now I sat in my little room alone and heard some children playing happily with each other. I was once a boy by myself and played happily too. I had nothing then, but I was happy. Being happy was only a kind of feeling without the need of too much external things. If you want to be happy, you can be happy even though you own nothing; if you don’t want to be happy, you can’t be happy even though the whole earth is yours.

It was a dark night because there was no moon in the sky. Moon is a good thing and always a topic in literature. I had an hour remained for me to write something. Recently I felt I didn’t want to write things about a specific topic. I just write randomly and don’t know whether it’s good for me or not. When I finish this article, should I edit it from A to Z? I don’t think it’s necessary. Maybe I should edit something later, but not tonight.

I finished Andersen’s fairy tales today, actually I read the Chinese edition during elementary school. The book influenced me a lot and I learnt European culture from it in childhood. I also read Washington Irving’s prose today. I found the guy’s prose could be compared with the prose of Zhu Ziqing. Zhu was really a great master on prose, after finished several of his prose, I wonder how could a man create so beautiful articles? No need to talk about the content, the words talked by themselves. Common scenery, common people, common things are all so beautiful in Zhu’s prose. I never found another one could create prose more beautiful.

What should I say next? Could I be possible to write beautiful things? I don’t know. Probably a casual guy like me won’t able to create so beautiful articles. I’m a taster instead of a cook. I said I liked history most, but for several months, I never touched a bit of history. I’m not gonna say I’m ashamed, because I’ve said it for so many times.

I always wanted to read Chinese history from slave society to now, which was an ambitious plan. I bought a suite of twenty-four histories, only managed to finish Records of Kingdoms. I used them as stool for me to have dinner instead of books for me to read, however, there is no need to regret. Regret can only waste my time more without bringing me benefit.

There’re so many things in the world, one life is really not enough to research them, that’s a good thing. As long as life has mystery, it won’t become boring. Suppose one knows what happens ahead, I doubt he has the courage to continue his life.

Tomorrow is Monday again. I have to work, or else how could I support myself? Whatever you do, whatever you think, you have to eat at first, so you have to work to support yourself. Talking about work, I’m afraid I have to talk about skill again.

Being a man, having a skill at first. If you don’t have skill, it’s really hard to earn bread to make you stay away from hunger, no need to say other needs. Talking about myself, technology is a skill for me. English is a hobby, I don’t need to think about other skills, these two skills will take all my life to sharpen. There is no need to talk about technology here. Technology is a thing to make some people comfortable and some people painful. In clear words, it makes consumer comfortable and engineer painful. I only talk about technology during work because it’s my work. Now it’s non-work time, so I should talk about English instead.

Language is really important. How to learn it well is also a big problem. Just take English for example, when you write something, you always worry about errors. Who cares? Expressing yourself freely is the most important. After you can express yourself freely, you can think about how to beautify your writing. Everybody learns to read before write. Reading is also a kind of knowledge. Reading something for pleasure is the peak status for reading.

I only read something for pleasure while in childhood. Hope I can read something for pleasure…At least I can write something for pleasure now…