2/24 to David

David,

As time goes by, you are very nearly to be born to the world. I'm very happy to see it happens and looking forward to see you soon. After your birth, I will get new job title as known as David's Father.

Today is the first working day at the Chinese new year. I read a lot of books, and many of them are history related books. I got an very truly thing and I'll put it as high priority to your education. We said "Hardships died of happiness".

At the beginning, let me explain what it means. People, or all animals, fight for live, for money, for happiness and so on when they need. We have to fight to our enemy then save our family. Once you have your own enemy, you have the reason to fight. But when you lose your enemy, you have no reason to fight. So you will become weaker than before. And you will be no longer stronger. Then you dead.

History books of Chinese empires tell us the story again and again. From 4000 years ago, with different dynasties. I saw that a country become strong because they have to fight to their enemy. So they were never satisfied what they own. They hope to defect their enemy, and they become strong, rich, and aggressive. It's difficult for us to image that such a big empire can be destroyed, but yes they were finally eliminated in the history. And the reason is very ironic, they lost their enemy. Without enemy, or we can use competitor today, we also lose our power to improve ourselves. At the top, it is never easy to find some dangerous is growing in small part. We can't see the new competitor is growing up because we don't believe they can defect us. The similar stories was told again and again in the Chinese 4000 years long history.

I won't give you perfect live because I hope you can always keep yourself be ready to fight. Comfort live only make you weak. You won't be grown up when you know you have a great father who can always provide you great support. I'd like train you and let you have strong mind to overcome all challenges.  

Damon.
2/24  

Change

We assume a person, who is very normal. 

But in fact, he is a little weaker then others.

He usually catches a common cold in autumn.

He runs slower than others.

An idea arise in his mind, I want to change my life.

Then he begin to do exercise, study books and find a consult.

In the beginning, he doesn't find any benefit while doing exercise.

He feels very bad after doing exercise. He wants to give up the changing everyday.

However, he keeps it finally, and get the fruit of succession. 

He has more muscles, not been afraid cold and slept well.

But in the progress of changing, it very tough.

He had to against the lazy of himself. 

But it is the changing.

There isn't any changing without pain.

If you don't have enough courage and faith,

you may choose to keep yourself.

If you want to improve yourself, the only way is to change yourself. 

In Software engineering, we may have lots of performance bottleneck.

In order to solve, we have to re-design whole system.

We need to reduce our data structure or remove useless functions.

It's really a big changing, and your test team wouldn't like you to do it.

They have to re-test all system and we may be worse than the original one.

But without changing, your product will always be the same.

We are not allowed to stay at home in Capitalist society.

No progress is to be rid of as fertilizer
Ancient Chinese culture teaches us "Contentment" does not seem to apply in this society

Taiwanese society is an ancient Chinese cultural tradition successor.
We implement the Western world capitalism.
So, we live in a conflict between the 2 total different cultures.

Change is not necessarily better.
No change is to stay at home waiting to be eliminated

What would you choose?

I chose to change!!