Life ⁽²⁾

Only when you like someone can you spend a lifetime with her (or him). Only when you like something can you do it tirelessly, never tiring of it. Only when you like your life can you live happily. Liking is the source of vitality, the…

A note: this is an essay I wrote in 2012, a little over a month before my mother's death. Today, for certain reasons, I happened to reread it; after reading I fell into long thought. I have decided to repost the original essay as it…