[Reserved] 18-year-old you learn Lin Yutang霍金巴菲特to
By / Sisy Chen
Celebrities Sisy Chen, Taiwan, 15 in Taiwan, "China Times" issued "to the age of 18 for those who are about to go to college youth, she warned these young 18-year-old is healthy, and youthful. 18 years old, learn Lin Yutang, Hawking, and Warren Buffett. ps. NC, non-mainstream really hope to see more of this article. . .
This letter addressed to the unknown, or you.
You first entered university campus, or still waiting for the school measured one after another, well into the dream campus. However, from Wall Street's financial tsunami in September 2008, Taipei or Kaohsiung, you began to confusion for the future. Four years later in life what kind? Ten years later the world is what style?
18-year-old, just take the acne did not take long, you were meant to throw away a small back tired of schoolbags uniforms, enjoy life. Today, the financial tsunami, the world's "curse" together are not enough to ease the minds of a loss. Four years later have a job? Taiwan that Taiwan do? What did you do wrong? Why be forced to bear all this?
18-year-old, some people have come a long way. 18-year-old, Lin also has just left Gulangyu Fujian to Shanghai St. John's University studying. Lin Yutang is a small village next to the Fujian Zhangzhou Longxi the "earth child" changed his life, his father from childhood to his international perspective. Dilapidated the Longxi country, the pastor of the Presbyterian Church, was brought up in Chinese and English self-taught his son, and Zhun divisions grew up determined to study the world-class university. "Since childhood, since Lin Yutang away from home Jidu Gulangyu schools , a troubled country, a seemingly hopeless children. He endured the loneliness of childhood, by an accidental open piano Island (the Gulangyu alias), and the world quietly link. English, French, Portuguese, Spanish ... consular children, Lin did not leave too much of his childhood records of his classmates, only misses the heart of the father's words, on the other side of the ocean is another world, " Read world-class university. " Lin Yutang later practiced his father's dream, the first in America at Harvard, and then to stay in Germany. He is the world's first Chinese "New York Times bestseller list writer for" The Art of Living "(Importance of the Living) of the continuous landing" New York Times' top 50 two weeks, and text to fill the gap, the words with a sense of humor. Harsh to say that his literary attainments smaller than even the Ku Hung-ming Shen of the same age from the text, Lu Xun, Zhang Ailing, but his status in the world literature far beyond their peers because he has an outlook on the world, especially the ability to write in English.
The 18-year-old, Hawking is still football Benz; he did not expect a few years later, you are going to suffer from muscular dystrophy. When attending the University of Oxford, UK, Ph.D., his brain has been significantly damaged, every day can not speak, the day than the day the hands and feet to shrink until we see today is a "monster". Twist in a specially designed wheelchair, 25-year-old Hawking only through a synthesizer pronounce with the world or universe communication. 18 years of age, he timely pay close attention to the youth, the streets chasing girls, playing football; his life, I believe, the world's biggest mystery is the "universe" and "woman". Often reading Einstein's physics books, left hand resting on a right hand to pick up Oscar Wilde's "moral" literature, mining woman exactly how the case.
18-year-old Buffett has sold chewing gum, used golf balls, popcorn ... buy the stock, make a fortune and lose it ... and when the newspaper delivery Health. He does not like the labor of the caddy class, but love the students of the career of newspaper delivery. He holds a send "Washington Post" route and two route of the "Times Herald", the position of either side of the two reported. The daily newspaper delivery, he always read in conjunction with Roosevelt and news arguments against Roosevelt, and then along the way, "a work, figured out some things", unless that section is only vicious dog ". Buffett was born August 19 and in 1990, counted his mother conceive more unfortunate is yet to come, he was the age of eleven on a Sunday, a person just did happened before and after the big stock market crash in October 1929; Ends Sunday drive home, the radio suddenly spots the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, "a commotion in the car. World War II had arrived from radio Buffett that an even greater disaster to come. Buffett's father was a "big man" in his mind, anti-Roosevelt, also desperate to put into a losing House of Representatives election. The mother plays the organ, but usually only to speak the language the child is full of negative attacks. Buffett biographer he used to talk about his father, or "parent", but not a separate reference to "mother". His friends recall, Buffett was brought up to suffer the humiliation of the mother language, which is both the needs of others he grows up and comfort, but also calm and ruthless power. A love child, the world has a lot of dreams, but no illusions. Buffett, the maternal love is not reliable, who can easily grow up trust? Calm and earnings, and all the "seeing is believing". This is the story of Warren's childhood times with the family for a 18-year-old child too early, but also learned the 50-year-old failed to learn about life.
18-year-old is healthy world economy is sick; 18-year-old youth, Taiwan's politics is aging. 18-year-old, learn Lin Yutang, love the place where you grew up, to understand the culture you taught, hometown but do not be tied down all the courage to go forward to a larger world to explore. 18-year-old, you learn to Buffett, the regret of childhood as a life experience, the more nagging of the mother is more able to experience the god of the investment calm compression. 18-year-old, you learn Hawking, in a timely manner to enjoy the beautiful youth, life there are too many unexpected, do not make distress What happened on Wall Street, to seize the tail of youth, love of your life.
18-year-old, the occurrence of events the Chungli do votes, the world is after the first oil crisis. The toilet paper was hoarding, salad oil vendor hype, up tenfold. The toilet to wipe all Fan luxury, think about it, really feel interesting. What I regret most is the 18-year-old did not learn English well, incompetent written in English; did not travel around the world, still young career in the End of the World. Most pleased that the freshman year the family law articles, and know what a woman marry, nothing, and predict that the law does not fit my early career change after graduation.
The envy of the age of 18 you or you.
