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.
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