Digression and Regression with Oliver

First, I want to say something. Our parents have worked hard. They've toiled years to make enough money to pay the $240,000 dollars it costs to raise a kid to the age of 18 in California, probably more if they have more. Our parents have worked hard, and it pains me to see that a lot of people don't appreciate just how hard they work.                                              If you are Chinese, then you might be able to relate to this, but do you happen to know what university your parents went to? Is it Qing Hua, Bei Da, Zhe Jiang, or Jiao Tong? Those universities are basically the equivalent of MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, or Caltech. I'm saying this because although my dad told me where he attended university, Qing Hua, I never really processed how great of an accomplishment this was until the day he told me that the next time I see him drinking with his fri...

One day in science class in 8th grade, A funny comment my teacher made, That stuck with me to this day, And its presentation long been delayed. "The Goldilocks Effect!" He exclaimed, "Its the theory of the universe!" He proclaimed, You see, if to the sun, Earth were only 5 miles closer, It would be black burnt toast, Yet if it were five miles farther away from the sun, The icy blizzards would leave no single one. And so, forwards my teacher pushed his theory, That throughout the world, it's seen clearly, We always strive for the happy middle, Even though a maze of riddles, Plague the journey through and through, A careful balance must be made, So that is how the world plays. And I've adopted this queer philosophy, To my own belief, opposite of dichotomy, The yin and yang, all live together in harmony, A happy medium, peaceful, charming. And that is why to this very day, I cannot decide between two s...

So what better to follow my first blog post than to start a second one? By spilling my guts to the entire world. So, I have my own philosophy involving my interpretation of my life's purpose. My life's purpose is simply to make sure that everyone else is happy. I try my best to hold back my annoyances and set back my grievances, although there is a certain threshold I can take. There is no such thing as a perfect person, but I believe that helping and trusting in other people will always lead to good karma and thus good fortune in the future. I know that's a silly optimistic way of viewing the glass, but I'll be silly and optimistic until I die. I am a bit more sensitive to others' emotions than most people. I care a lot about my own image and reputation, but not physically, but status-wise. I must be friends with everyone and make no enemies, but that is simply wishful thinking. Everyone has enemies, even in the brightest of corners, because those people ha...