I was working carefully on my final paper when the postman called me to get the parcel. It is a book from my best friend Chen. The cover of the book is very simple and clean, I like the design of this book. There is a sentence at the back of the book: “in some sense, our lives just like a complete liquidation, like a war we need fight unremittingly against our nature, even like an unanswered question about ‘know yourself’. During this long course, we need liquidate our unwise, more important, we need overcome our foibles. Of course we can choose seek help from the ancients, the contemporaries, relatives, friends, even strangers. But ultimately, no one can depend on.”
While the language of this book is schmaltzy, it got me thinking about life and knowing myself. I have to have the courage to examine who I really am, to find out what I really want, to come to terms with the dark corner of my own soul. We live in an era in which information speed around the global, every hour of every day. No matter how unfair or wrong, whether we like it or not, all of our fortunes are tied together. Maybe we can choose shake hands and move on, or we close our eyes and pretend to go to sleep. The author of this book told us a story: he has a dog, it always trusts everyone, and shows the soft abdomen to people who want to touch it. Such unquestioning trust is a point of the utmost jealousy. And I believe once upon a time, we can trust anyone just like the cute dog.
The name of this book is You Never Could Wake A Person Who is Pretending to be Asleep. If a person chooses to pretending to be asleep, maybe that means he chooses not to believe.