Flashes

We often imagine to be someone else while aren’t aware how unique we are and end to be nothing. 

We can never get to know a person completely just according to appearance, Can We?

• Pretend

Pretend too much to remember the Original Being.

How to hide the inside desire is most difficult.

Anything will not last if everything based on various lies even if you may like to name them as “White Lie”. Who is the Judge?

So, Are You Being Yourself?

• Open-Minded

It’s (more like) an attitude when you are certain something is not going to work (Or something great you have expected will not happen) but you are still willing to continue your devotion.

It already goes far beyond the result but more like a Long-Term Vision or Prospect.

So, Are You Open-Minded?

• Be Kind

I used to read these dialogues:

“I asked a wise man, tell me sir, in which field could I make a great career?

He said with a smile, be a good human being. There is a lot of opportunity in this area and very little competition.”

We don’t need a lot of effort to be polite and kind but it never means this is going to be easy.

So, Are You Kind?

• Continual Learning

We will meet numberless people, good people, terrible people, supportive people, indifferent eople, irrelevant people… from whom we can always learn something new which can be either how to be great from good or how to be terrible from appealing.

So, You Are Not Going To Be Someone You Always Loathe?

• Think Profoundly, Act Flexibly

Different people have quite different characteristics so sometimes we do need to compromise this or that to be closer to them that we can more easily reach acertain consensus.

It’s not easy to bend or low ourselves but it’s a profound understanding about Humanity.

Take it as an effective way to get support from people around you.

So, You Can Be a Person as if Flung Out Of Space but Not Let It Block You In Thehe Meantime?

English Original E-Books’ Sharing

Feel free to WeChat me for free E-Books from these recommendation and I will try to keep the list updated from time to time.

• 《Lean In》by Sheryl Sandberg

We shall always think farther beyond our duties and many of our peers have surpassed us because they are willing to devote more than being required. 

It’s really not easy to grow to be a powerful female leader in a certain field considering of many facts.

Definitely worth a read.

There is audiobook @喜马拉雅APP

• 《The power of habit》by Charles Duhigg

Various habits are affecting our lives while we are totally unaware of any of the clues.

This book can be helpful for knowing how our habits being formed and how we can make the most of our nature.

• 《For One More Day》by Mitch Albom

Even if it looks like the whole world has abandoned you, there’s a reason in somewhere for you to continue your life.

A powerful book for reading especially when you feel depression, desperation for life.

There is audio book @ 喜马拉雅 APP

I don’t have E-Book but only paper book for this one.

• 《Letter from an Unknown Woman》by Stepgan Zweig

Really a letter of 14 pages and really a touching story.

It’s so amazing that love can be so pure, personal and intense. 

It was first made to movie in 1948 and leading casts are Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan then it was second made to movie in 2004 by 徐静蕾, but I haven’t watched any of them.

• 《Love Begins in Winter》by Simon Van Booy

It’s a book of five stories and very easy for reading.

Simon’s words are healing, warm, delicate and touching.

Definitely worth a read.

I hope you can share with me another book by him 《The Secret Lives of People in Love》if you happen to have this one.

• 《Revolutionary Road》by Richard Yates

I always felt so angry with April the leading role in the book when I was reading it and I didn’t take Frank’s (April’s husband) side but purely disliked April’s personality and her way of solving conflicts in marriage.

For most people, marriage is very realistic because romance or romantic relationship requires too much patience and substances which both are not affordable for normal people.

One person’s reaction in any relationship (especially in love relationship) can be traced to his or her upbringing.  

This book was made to movie in 2008 with same name and the leading casts are Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio 

There is audio book @ 喜马拉雅 APP

• 《One Day》by David Nicholls

David’s way of writing this book is kind of fresh, it likes a memoir of 20 years’ growth, changes and correspondence happened between two leading roles-Emma and Dexter.

How could it take 20 years for two people in love to realize the inseparable relationship between them, and how could it be so cruel to separate them when everything just started to be perfect.

This book was made to movie in 2011 with same name and the leading casts are Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess

There is audio book @ 喜马拉雅 APP

• 《The price of salt》by Patricia Highsmith

I have to say Ms. Patricia is a very great writer, her way of expressing peoples’ emotion, the detail is very delicate, inspiring and profound.

It’s a very touching story about two women’s love happened in the 1950s America.

This book was made to movie in 2015 with name “Carol” and the leading casts are Cate Blanchett (my favorite actress, Cate is so interesting and smart, aren't she?) and Rooney Mara

There is audio book @ 喜马拉雅 APP

• 《The moment in Peking 京华烟云》by 林语堂

I always want to read this book and finally finished it during the 2019 CNY holiday.

You can always get some inspiration from Mulan, Yao the leading role in the book as well as the three respectable families‘ (Yao姚，Zeng曾, Niu牛) rise and fall.

It’s also a good description about changes of the times, from the end of Qing Dynasty to Modern Society.

Many people like to compare this book with《a dream of red mansion 红楼梦》but I want to say this book is much more modern and simpler.

This book was made to TV series in 2005 with same name but I did not quite watch the TV. And you will find the TV series has changed a lot compared with the book.

• 《Island》by Victoria Hislop

A story happened in an Island to where people got leprosy at that time would be sent. 

How the pandemic triggered panic among people and affected their lives which should have been tranquil, especially considering that we are still in COVID-19 pandemic.

• 《Normal People》by Sally Rooney

Two young people from quite different background tried to explore their positionsin families, communities, societies and love.

People keep growing whether you like it or not and it’s a painstaking progress for most of the time.

This book was made to TV series in 2020 with same name but I haven’t watched the TV. 

There is audio book @ 喜马拉雅 APP