I have not felt so depressed for a long time in the past few days.

But I am so glad that I was reading an autobiography of Katharine Graham, heiress of the Washington Post and Newsweek magazine from her father and husband (Now I know why I like Newsweek so much).

It is a really great thing to know somebody who has gone through even more difficult than yours have survived and strived on from that. It happened that I just read to the chapter where she dealt with an unprecedented label strike and won at the very end after a very brutal and dark period in her life. I got so much strength from her personal story, like from many other’s as well.

It is strange that I never take religion as a source of help during my low times. Maybe I always feel it is more evident if somebody has actually managed to do that rather than God tells you. My interests in autobiography was cultivated by mum who has recommended me people such as 卡内基and哈默。In the later years, I remember I bought Henry Kissinger’s, Hillary and Bill Clinton’s memoir myself. I guess my plain narrative style of writing is also heavily influenced by my reading in autobiographies and newspapers rather than novels.

Another refugee for me is the movie called “under the Tuscan sun” (for story line check yahoo movie). This movie which I owned a VCD copy has given me hope whenever I feel hopeless and it didn’t fail me this time either.

I always remember a sentence from the script: “无论何时何地，都要保有一刻赤子之心。” Life could take many unexpected turns and it will not fail to surprise you.