In Islamabad, I always liked thinking of the meaning of life. My Pakistan friends had their faith and could live happily. They had prayer several times per day and I thought it was a waste of time at first, now I don’t think so. If you don’t pray, then what will you do? Watching movie or shopping? Is that a waste of time? It just depends on you.

    The purpose of life is simple, having a simple and healthy life. Everybody has his own way of life and we can’t judge which way is the best. I always like making meditation. Since we all have to die one day, so what should we do before that? Of course living one’s own way is the best so that he won’t have any regrets. Nowadays, I read Water Margin. Probably my reading passion isn’t strong enough to conquer the heat. Anyway, having a good rest is the basic part of life, but my education always told me to struggle hard regardless of the health. The story of Premier Zhou working overnight, ancient people learning with light of firefly, snow or a hole in the wall, by which I was deeply moved once. Now I want to make sure food and rest are OK at first, then I’ll do something. No input, how to expect output? I don’t whether I’m right or not, but I’ll stick my way.

    My happiness can comes from reading and writing and both of which are for thinking. So I guess it’s easy to be happy under the precondition of healthy food and good rest. About reading, I only need to have one mobile phone to contain all books I like; about writing, I only need to have a note book and a pen or a laptop. I can afford that without difficulties.

    I only read soul-shaking books. Four great classical novels, Lu Xun works, nice. I can read those books again and again. About other books, I only read them once. Anyway, I know what I need to read so as not to be misguided.

    The purpose of reading social books is to get wisdom to deal with human; the purpose of reading natural books is to get wisdom to deal with nature. At the same time, both of which can make your brain sharp. You don’t need to have a noble background, rich family and good looks, but you should have a sharp brain.