Tomorrow Dad is going back to Taiwan again, and there's a certain sadness again.
We had a good talk last night, he showed me this quote in a book he wrote, and wanted me to
understand it as well. You see, my dad is quite a scholar and he loves language as well, he has a
profound master of Mandarin and it is his passion. I only wish I can one day be as fluent in his
understanding of the language of it. He loves to talk about literature and loves explaining and
describing it to me. For I believe this is a lost art, for he can write Chinese in proverbs that I
can only dream of doing.
But I am my father's son after all, and although I do not have profound master of it, I do love the study as well.

The quote he showed me was in Chinese, and at first I thought it was a conjecture he had made, but
later on I realized that he was quoting from another, let me seek if I can remember it in Mandarin
in the first place and translate it to English, he really loved the quote in Chinese and was
wondering if I can translate it for him...

Life is such...

Once in the world we are like water caught in between rocks and we jet forward, bravely and daringly
leaping through air, flying to clear a waterfall, we continue on as a current that reaches a wider
body of water, more stable and more established, the tide becomes more manageable until it becomes
peaceful and pacified. For hence, once we reach the sea, we leave no traces as we become one with
it and the definition of self slowly diminishes.