The summer rainy season, I used to not like it much, feeling it was too gloomy, always giving people a sense of drowsiness,

but now, past thirty, I surprisingly like it more and more, feeling that in such midsummer, quietly listening to the rain, drinking tea, daydreaming, reading books is such a wonderful time.

I read Lin Yutang's "Biography of Su Dongpo" for the second time,

a dear friend gave it to me when I was struggling, there are many books about Su Dongpo, but I particularly like this one. Because the Su Dongpo in Lin Yutang's pen is not the eternal literary giant in everyone's impression, but a complete, rich, flesh-and-blood person.

In fact, if measured by secular standards, this guy Su Dongpo actually had a pretty miserable life:

extremely gifted, extremely famous, yet long trapped in party strife; he could have held high office, but always faced setbacks due to his personality, political views, writings, and ways of dealing with the world.

After the Wutai Poetry Case, his life fate took a sharp turn for the worse, and later he was continuously exiled to even farther places.

Lin Yutang's perspective is: these places of exile became where Su Dongpo truly completed himself.

You see a person, when the external world does not go according to your or his script, or even collapses directly, yet he can continue to live, continue to express, continue to learn, continue to love, continue to cherish life, continue to create systems.

He sees through many things, yet does not make himself very hard, cold, or bitter; he never lets suffering destroy his sensitivity,

which is very difficult, because I have experienced similar moments, I have gone through such times, and felt such warmth, at certain stages one needs to be incredibly strong inside.

Of course, this kind of Su Dongpo is the one I like, and perhaps what I like is this kind of myself.

So now I often say: being content brings happiness, finding joy in oneself, and helping others brings joy is very good.

The important thing is, not to dwell on the past, not to fear the future, not to waste the remaining life, what you have in the present is the best:

Without worry or fear, one can be free from attachment,

Only by enjoying the moment can one maintain mindfulness.

Being healthy and well is the best season in the world!

I wrote a piece with a heavy old Deng flavor,

thank you for reading this far,

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