Sit in silence and reflect on your own faults; when chatting, avoid gossiping about others' wrongs. One who can endure suffering is a person of ambition; one who is willing to take a loss is not foolish. Showing respect to gentlemen reveals virtue, while fearing petty people is not incompetence. Taking a step back opens up a vast sky and broad land; yielding three parts brings peace of mind. If you wish to advance, think of stepping back; if you start, consider letting go. If you are successful, do not overindulge in the past; in all affairs, leave some room. Gold is precious, but peace and happiness are worth a thousand times more. When faced with a crisis, thinking thrice is best; when anger arises, forbearance is the highest virtue.
If the years are peaceful and good, nurture your body and mind; if the times are dark and gloomy, seek more trials and tribulations. The greatest confusion in life is not that no one understands you, but that you do not understand yourself. Without letting go, how can you possess? Without enduring loneliness, how can you witness prosperity? However beautiful the past may have been, it is now just an empty talk; however difficult the path under your feet, it points directly to tomorrow. Whatever fate gives you, good or bad, much or little, face it earnestly and respond calmly. A life filled with regrets is called living; occasional flaws make it real.
Time flies, and moments vanish like smoke. Looking back through the cracks of the years at the path we have traveled, we find fewer moments of inspiration and expectation. In our busy days, we only look down to rush along the road, inadvertently missing many beautiful scenes and unable to capture their beauty in haste. After the繁华 (splendor) fades, only tranquility remains. On the stage of life, we perform to our heart's content—sometimes with emotion, sometimes with surprise, sometimes with tears. Every small highlight and every small gain is a gift from life. Always believe that goodness is on the way.
Most people in their lifetime have never stepped on a synthetic running track; fewer than five thousand people in the whole country practice hurdling, and many county seats don't even have a proper athletics field. Making Liu Xiang bear the burden of 1.3 billion people from 56 ethnicities is too exhausting. This is the same logic as expecting the national football team to win championships when fewer than ten thousand people in the country practice football. Gold medals are not the hard truth; popularization is the hard truth. If the Olympics ever include mahjong as a competitive event, no matter how biased the referees or how negative the foreign media, we will surely be the champions. Liu Xiang, life goes on.
Life itself is a series of goals. A life without goals is like a ship without a captain; such a ship will only drift in the sea forever, never reaching the shore.
I asked Worries about you. It doesn't love you at all, so I told it not to delude itself. Health asked me to send a letter to you: it is faithful to you for a lifetime!
