Poverty and the low educational background of my family of origin and the environment in which I grew up have made it so that at each important crossroads in life, I was never able to mature and think things through in time. In my confusion, I was forced to make one important life choice after another. For example, education, relationships, career, marriage, etc., with no one behind me to guide and help. While children from high-net-worth families understand things in their teens or twenties, we only come to understand them in our thirties or forties. By the time we awaken to the reality, it is already too late. Thus, we make many mistakes, one mistake leading to another, and end up living a life overwhelmed by the accumulation of errors. Our world is like a high mountain; when your parents live at the top of the mountain, you are destined not to live at the foot of it. When your parents live at the foot of the mountain, you are destined not to live at the top. In most cases, the position of the parents determines the starting point of the child's life. To be honest, I am grateful to my parents for bringing me into this world, but sometimes, like this moment in the early morning when I still can't sleep, I quite dislike them. But sometimes, I also envy them; I envy that they have no thoughts, no worries other than money, and only know how to work like cattle, exert effort, eat, sleep, grow old, and wait to die... living like livestock. All conversations forever stay in the mountains of my hometown, among those people and those matters, the trivialities of distant relatives. I love them very much and can understand them; I just cannot understand why people can live so muddle-headedly, obedient like a little rabbit, resigned, hardworking and uncomplaining, with no temper or awakening, sometimes even forgetting that they are human. What has kept them from ever being enlightened? In the same ethnic group in East Asia—Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong—people at the bottom of society have a completely different spirit; at least they can discuss social principles and issues, at least they can think.