Yeah, go abroad to see the world and broaden your mind.

Today's communication and technologies make us feel our planet shrinking and we all are living in a tiny global village, but nothing can replace the first-hand experience to get the look and feel about different cultures, customs, landscape and seascape. if you are not there, can you imagine how you feel when you are sinking at the bottom of the Grand Canyon and gazing upward? How romantic Venice is? How majestic Niagara falls?

Ideally, you will stay at one place for a few months and move on to another, living and working there as a resident rather than as a tourist, because as a tourist, it will leave the confused memories of the places where your time goes too quickly and swiftly.

When you set foot on the strange, foreign land, your number one enemy is loneliness. That is up to you to overcome it. Sooner or later, you will get over it, making new friends, soaking up the view of astonishing strange land, getting yourself lost in the new culture, immersing yourself in your study and your work?

My dad once told me that when you are young, it is time for building up your memories by exploring the world! When you are old, you will be sitting in the garden and digging them up to remember.

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Yeah, listening to the old songs like Yesterday Once More, Those Were the Days My Friends ... always stirs something up in me, and hopelessly see my mood drifting away, somehow, I would let it (my mood) be and set it free most of the time, for those small things and scenes are worth being revisited and replayed, which would be flowing through my head, like a movie ... ... playing at the street corner when we were kids, lying on the gentle, green hill, wandering at the beach and letting the sea water massage our feet and the breeze take away our pensive moods.

"It is not a lack of beauty of life.
It is our lack of discovery"

Great! Those two lines were written with compact and strict formation. May I take them apart and put them together in different form as its theme remains? Yeah, there are much more things to meet our casual eyes than we think, if we pause a little bit longer to look and feel, if we see our surroundings with a sense of wonder and excitement. I am lucky to meet quite a few people who are able to generate the excitement about things I take for granted ... like ...

Looking at an eagle spreading its wings, circling in the blue sky, how elegant, how majestic ...

Emotional Life

Its impossible to control and its hard
everyday I seem to let down my guard
I get hit with the unthinkable challenges
And in the end nothing balances
Loss job, lost relationship, lost family where does it stop
I lose my mind and eveything just drops
Insanity and fear takes over my mind
Im in a horrible bind
Trying to escape the rath of no return
But I continue to burn
I think positive and then it turns
my stomach churns
Im screaming from the inside but noone hears me
the pain wont let me be
Failure outweighs my happiness
Im on a stage in front of a society that is clapless
Then I move on
And Life seems like a good bond
then in a split second things change
Everythings out of range
It feels all too strange
How can you be happy
Then the next day feel so crappy
I guess its just the fact of life
I just got to continue on with all my strife
Forget the guilt and the hurt
And try to convert
Into someone more likely for bliss
In a world full of confusion, hate, and hiss
I must be strong and persist

Toying with a word, "run" - doing my English homework

I have been going through these lines over and over, and fancied myself poking around the idea to get my first hand experience.

Here is a word, run the basic meaning is to move using your legs, going faster than when you walk. Yes, I am able to see a vivid picture of someone running. As I was exploring "run" a bit further with a handful of examples, some patchy fog started to roll into my mind.

1. He is running for the president? (a campaign as a long distant race, make sense).

2. The road runs parallel to the river. (a road as a moving object, make sense)

3. He was running his eyes all over her. (an eye as a moving object, make sense, NOT sure?)

4. Running the big department store is a tough job. (a big department store as a soccer field? partly make sense, NOT sure. or compare a big department store to something else? Although running means managing in this sentence, I can't get a firm grip on it because I can't get a clear source image to which my target one (a big department store) maps. I'm afraid that I won't feel comfortable to use it.)

5. Mom, stop running my life. (same as #4, my life as a soccer field? Doesn't make sense, or compare my life to something else? Although running means controlling in this sentence, I can't get a firm grip on it because I can't get a clear source image to which my target one (my life) maps. I am afraid that I won't feel comfortable to use it.)

6. We ran out of fuel. (make sense)

7. He ran out of ideas (idea is some sort of fuel, still make sense)

8. The course of true love never runs smoothly, quoted from a Shakespeare play. (lovers embarking on the lifelong journey or something like that, make sense, wish I could come up with some beautiful verse like that.).
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999. The farther and longer I am running, the more exhausted and confused I am. You see, I'm taking a short break and pondering if I am on the right track, asking why and how?