What is the secret of health?

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What is the secret of health?

Not everyone needs an aim in life.  They are living very well.  And they don't need a meaning in life. And for many people, the only meaning is money. So the secret of health may not be the aim of life.  There are many medical guidelines for a healthy way of living.  And I dare not to argue with them.  They must be right.

But if you do have an aim in life, I believe it is helpful for your health.

However, the aim should be single and solid.   Some people got their aims from their parents.  But the aims are divided always,  your father tells you one thing and your mother tells you another.

People with a split aim in life are not healthy.

So the Chinese always believe in the term "One heart, one mind".  (一心一意)

When you are single minded and strike forward, you'll be successful and healthy.

And the opposite is "Three hearts, two minds" (三心兩意).   The result is obvious.

The secret of life is in the aim of your life.

Many of the Chinese people in Hong Kong say blessings to each other in the new year.

Most people only have a wish of healthy life, rich life, wealthy life;   But they never mention the aims of life.

The culture will be changed one day and China will be really strong.

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The Queen and I

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The Queen and I

The story happened in a remote kingdom. I dare not tell you the name of the kingdom.  It was not real and it was so unreal that if I tell the fact it would be embarrassing,  not to me but to the King.

I thought she was the most beautiful lady i've seen for my whole life.   I have never saw a lady so pretty and so appealing.  May be that was because she was selected from millions of beautiful girls by the King.  No one can have such time and effort to search a million pretty girls and found  one.   It was only a king could do that.

The story is about how a reporter like me to help the Queen to leave her King.

It was complicated and long story and it needs a  complete novel to finish it.   It was not only the story itself important,  but the scenes are so beautiful that you can never forget about them.

Yes, a beautiful scene is just like a fresh flower. You will be dominated by the beauty if you are the right one.   If a film writer wishes to reproduce the beauty,  he needs money.  For a few seconds of beauty which can burn into your memory for your whole life,  it takes a million.

But this is a true life experience and you just felt the beauty by your fate, not by a film.

She was jogging among a group of young people outside the Palace.   I saw her and she saw me and she smiled.

It is the kind of smile which can turn over a whole country.

I was knocked down and the light was pierced deep into my mind.   Although I could still be standing.  But I am not me anymore.......

The story could be long and very long.

You'll see how a reporter sneak into the Palace and make friend with her.

And that is not important.

Important is how can the reporter to encourage her to leave the Palace?

It was by one sentence only.

He said: "You are to serve the people not to serve the king. "

And she agreed.

The story would tell you how she manage to run away from the Palace with the reporter for a brighter sunshine.

It needs not to tell the details,  because all the rest is not important.

Important is the determination.

Yet the determination will not be coming from nothing.   It's from a sudden realization.

All other reactions are followers of the sudden and fully explored understanding of reality.

It creates a sudden flash of beauty no one have seen before.

And this is the story:  "The Queen and I".........

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What if your right foot is broken?

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What if your right foot is broken?

My friend told me,  better to learn using the left foot to drive before accidents happen.

It was an episode happened long ago.   All cars need to use a right foot to press the crutch to change gear, and to press the brake to slow down or the accerlator to speed up.  If the right foot angle is hurt,  one can be stranded in a remote area.

It is a Plan-B for driving.

And it is a simple idea for everyone.

But it will not be the same in life.

Sometimes you can only have one plan.

What will you do if all roads are blocked?

And it is not a joke.  It needs to learn flying on top of driving always.

It needs to prepare a pair of wings,  and its reality.

You can get ideas from the internet always, but the internet will die also.

The question is:  what if your internet is dead?

You need to protect them.

And you need to learn flying.

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What is the mind on a horse?

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What is the mind on a horse?

There will not be a deep thought in running.

Slow and quiet is another choice.

To think in the minds of human is not easy.

Human is only a small unit of the universe.

It must be awared  that there is a secret around us.

And then eyes will be opened.

What are we living for?

Where are we going to?

These must be the thoughts for everyone.

How to produce love and wisdom for them?

Religions like Christianity created Sunday schools for students.

They arrange everyone to pray for learning.

It is a project practising for long years.

A project is useful, its better than none.

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Missing You

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新年快樂樂趣多

大吉大利笑呵呵

騎著馬兒飛奔喎

我掛住你掛住我

New Year joys beyond compare,

Luck and laughter everywhere!

On a horse, we swiftly ride—

I'm on your mind, you're on my side.

A poem 2026

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老髮微增曲處多

人間無奈歲月何

借取當年舊相片

回憶想望那當初

青春笑語舊生哥

樂趣未減歡聲播

還我從前太子道

大搖小擺慢步過

Hair thin with age, more curves appear,

Yet what can time do, year by year?

I take an old photo from the past,

To recall the days that couldn't last.

Youthful laughter, schoolmates of old,

Joy undiminished, stories told.

Give me back Prince Edward Road of yore,

Where I strolled slowly, as before.

note

Yore is an old-fashioned or poetic word that means "long ago" or "former times."

It is often used in the phrase "of yore," as in:

"in days of yore" → meaning "in days long past."

In the poem, "Prince Edward Road of yore" refers to the way that road used to be in the past, evoking nostalgia for earlier times.

Why it needs to seek help from heaven sometimes?

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Why it needs to seek help from heaven sometimes?

It is in this boundary where religion comes into the minds of people.

When you have exhausted all means to solve your problem,  you can only choose to pray.

The question is, is the problem a real one?

Have I exhausted all my strength?

If someone is going to die,  no one can stop him from dying.

Experiences in the hospital will tell you about this.

You were crying and you were praying, but nothing is possible.

You cannot wake up the dead.

You can only do your best.

Have I been doing all my best?

I dare not say yes.

But I promise you I will.

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Why am I happy?

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Why am I happy?

Actually, the question should be  "Why was I happy the day before? "

It was because of my dream.

I dreamt about my elder brother.

I never wanted to write about him before.

He was a trouble of the family. 

He was not retarded but he was slow.  He was slow in learning but quick in gambling. I helped him with his homework since we were six or seven. He was a gambler all his life since early ages. But he never worked,   and he never finished school.

His money, only small money, was always from our grandmother.   My grandmother forgave him and loved him,  And gave him money as long as she can afford.   A few coins will do sometimes.  We were a poor family. We were extremely poor even to the edge of hungry.  Although I can eat every day.   It was never a real hungry but we are at the edge of it.

And it was good.   It was healthy for thoughts to develop. If I was in a well-off family,  I might not have developed a mind to see it from the bottom.  I might not have developed a mind to concern about our universe and everything in it.   You can find many things with such a concern.

Everybody in my family was annoyed with my elder brother.  It is very bad for a poor family with a gambler to support.

My elder brother died early in his fifties.

Everything was quiet since then.

He was gradually fading away from my memory for the last 20 years.

I have a very good dream to dream about him the night before.

It was a very happy moment in the dream.

I am seldom so happy like this. But it was a dream. He came back to talk with me.   We were meeting in a very good restaurant with a garden. And he dressed well.  Not like the poor look before.

We were talking to each other and walking outside the garden in a comfortable and leisure manner.

And then I woke up in the mood of happiness. 

I was happy and I don't know why.

Maybe the unhappiness was gone in the dream.

Happiness was from unhappiness.

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What is impermanance?

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What is impermanance?

Impermanance is a frightening religious word.

Its meaning is:   nothing lasts.

But it cannot be explained in a simple way.  If you think you cannot know what's going to happen the next minute,  then you will get mad and nothing can be done.

Impermanence is an explanation for the universe and our existence.

It means nothing can last,  and nothing can be expected.

No one can know the final outcome of this universe, and no one can know the final fate of human.

It is true and you cannot expect anything else except miracles happen.

Sensible people will ask,  what are we going to do?

It will be a deep question inside his mind for a long time.

It is a question no religious people can answer.

Because it might be a wrong question.  When you saw everything is not lasting,  you might forget that something is happening new.   Old one gone, new one come.   And there are always new ones.

If the human race is gone,  there might be a new one.   And this is not impermanence.   This is only permanence.  This is constant and lasting.

You might ask will the universe last?  The answer is yes.  Even if the universe is destroyed,  there might be a new one emerging.

And the last and more important point is:  even though nothing lasts,  but humans can create a miracle.

It must be a very strong rooted belief in you and me, that we humans can create miracle.   That is a possibility that cannot be denied.

This is a simple conviction that can keep you going.   It means hope is real.

If nothing can last,  and nothing can be expected, then one thing is still expecting:  miracles can never be denied,  and you can create one.  It is certain.

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please remember, and it must be remembered:

miracles can be created by someone,

and that one could be me.

I can and I will creat a miracle.

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What is most important in a 3-union of peace?

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What is most important in a 3-union of peace?

This is a rare chance for human history that a real peace is near.  If the  three powers can think deeply about this peace,  they will know it is the most important time now.

There are problems outside the 3-union.

For example,   drugs are coming from outside the territory of the United States.  

It is useless if you keep your doors closed.   It is because some people needs it.  And people who doesn't know how to live their life needs it.

Can you tell your own people how to live their lives?

The answer is no if there is no peace on earth.

It seems easy if two of the giants can shake hands.  But the world is in a 3 power situation.  There must be a real union of the three.

Three hands need to shake together.

And it must be real.

Anything without reality is useless.

However, the 3-union can be weaken by a 4th-power who is watching  closely nearby.

That is why some issues like Taiwan or the Ukraine must be settled first.

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What's the internal factor of the Taiwan issue?

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What's the internal factor of the Taiwan issue?

The single and most important internal factor about the Taiwan issue is language.

If political discussions in China cannot be settled,   if the language issue  remains untouched,   all things will not be smooth.

The political discussions in China shows the world,   there is a strange power not happy to reunite.

External issues are easy.   There will be a huge benefit for the friendship of US and China.  All sides wish to see that happen.  There will be an unexpected  economic growth for all.

The internal issue is the languages in the minds.

There is no disadvantage for solving the language problem.  If the Chinese can use the traditional language more (not forbidding the simplified form),  all Chinese will have a better brain function,  and they will be smarter than ever.   It is only the political discussions created a block.

There is no disadvantage using the traditional Chinese languages.

It needs to remove the blocks.

If the blocks are not removed, bad things will happen.

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Is there anything that can never be used up?

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Is there anything that can never be used up?

有什麼東西是永遠用不完的嗎？

A pencil eraser can never be used up.   I have never used up a pencil eraser in my school days.  I am an absent minded student.  But I have found that,  I have never been used up any eraser.  They are lost always.   They are not finished by using. 

 I talked with an AI machine about this trivial matter.   It seems I am talking nonsense.

But the AI machine have another answer.   They said you have very few mistakes,  and you need not an eraser to erase always.   That is fun.   I like the answer. Though  it's not the thing in my mind.   My erasers are always lost due to my  carelessness.   Whenever  I cannot find my eraser, I have to buy a new one.   And it is not expensive even in the old days.   You can always keep buying.   And if anyone is so careful that they will never lost an eraser,  they must be exceptional.  And they might not be human, or not common.

My AI machine discovered that I am not talking about pencil erasers but talking something else,  they gave a hint for me. 

Am I talking the inexhaustible nature of something?

Actually, it is not.

Topics about environmental protection is not in my mind now.

However, it is a hint.

Is there any marks to our planet that can never be washed away?

Human existence is a mark.

Even the planet or our solar system is ruined some times later,  but our marks will never be disappeared.

Yes, we will be here.

Human marks will be forever.

Please think twice about it.

We will never be washed away like dirt.

No one can remove human beings like an eraser erasing.

Humans will be forever.

The only question remaining is how.

How can human beings exist forever?

Tell the AI machine.......

It might be useful.

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What can the three kingdoms do？

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What can the three kingdoms do？

The three kingdoms can do many things if they are not fighting each other.

They will be creating a huge chance, not only to make small money.

There is a chance for them now.

Because money is only a supporting ground.

When you have a ground, you can try to fly.

And then you can see your real situation from the space.

You might not be able to see all the things.

But you can always try.

Humans need to know more.

Humans need a peaceful surrounding to know more.

No one can think clearly when they are aiming at each other with  guns.

By putting down the gun, you can pick up tools.

And you need to shake hands first.

You need to trust and to be trusted.

There will not be a real peace if you are not trusting each other.

It is a very early starting point.

And this is a big business.

If humans can create a real peaceful situation.  they will have a time to study:  

Why we humans are here?

What can we do?

Important is to create a peaceful situation earlier.

Show your sincerity and you'll be trusted.

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How long will the three kingdoms last?

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How long will the three kingdoms last?

The present day Three kingdoms Era will not be the same as the old Chinese historical Three Kingdoms Period.   Although Chinese Three Kingdoms Period was a fierce fighting period,  but it lasted only 60 years.  It is so short a time, though its memory is long and lasting.

Modern day Three Kingdoms Era will be much longer.  It is because they are not fighting.  They are only watching each other. They have no intention to fight each other.   They can't do it even if they do have the intention to swallow each other.

And this period, or an "Era" could be very long.

An era of peace without war will last for a very long time.    No one can have enough power to eliminate other powers.  They will be standing like a tripod.  They have to support each other, because they cannot destroy each other.

Is it possible that  one of the big powers have a sudden growth and the growth is very fast and extremely powerful that the other two cannot match?   

This possibility cannot be ruled out because of one thing only:   That one of the three countries be completely materialized.   It means a complete failure of the spiritual effort. It means the mind is completely not used or ruined.

It is not a reality now.  No one is doing things completely for money.  They will have more or less some  senses of spiritual justification.  

Time is running fast.  No one can witness these things to happen within 100 years.  You and me will be gone by then. But it is a trend.

The trend is:  spiritual effort can stand.  The tripod cannot stand with two ends. 

Many questions remain not answered right now.

We need to see completely clearly how this tripod is constructed.

We need to see clearly the nature of Chinese and American culture.

What about Russia?

If you have not read Leo Tolstoy "War and Peace" and found the golden mind within,  if you have not deeply moved by Tchaikovsky "Swan Lake", you will not understand Russia.

It is a must for the future young people to study the three cultures.

They will thoroughly understand their own era.

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Will there be an era of peace ahead?

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Will there be an era of peace ahead?

There will be an era of peace ahead within a very short time.

The United States, China and Russia will remain calm. They will not start a world war in the near future.

A peace time is certain.

It will happen this year, next year, and last until a long long time.

External factors like a certain illness or weather change will happen.   They will be united to fight against it.

They will not fight against each other and create a  period of peace.

This is the most important international situation ahead.

What will they do with their remaining energies?

Building is not the best choice.

They have enough bridges and roads.   High rise buildings are everywhere.

 The choice is art subjects.   If humans can find the real beauties on earth,  if humans can find the real beauties inside the heart,  they will have a better starting point to stand.

Starting point?

Do you mean humans need to have better airplanes and better rockets?

No.

If humans do not have a better mind, they will create nothing.  There will be nowhere for them to go.

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Why the universe is not a joke?

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Why the universe is not a joke?

Suppose the universe is a huge balloon.  Suppose in the future, humans can get to the edge of the balloon. Maybe it is not the edge, but the inner layer of the balloon and you cannot go out. When you reached the top of the balloon from inside,  you might have a conviction that there must be an outer space outside this balloon.

And this is the thinking pattern of human civilization.    Inside and outside is together.   When you are inside you can expect to have an outside there.   Unless one thing happened:

Unless you can break the human thinking pattern:  And you can be sure that there is only inside and no outside.

People will say it is impossible.

And here is a question again:  what is impossible?

And you might think what will happen if there is really no more spaces "outside" our space.

Will there be only one space in our universe?

Will there be "outside" spaces somewhere?

It is a puzzle and it seems to be a joke.

But it is no joke here:  

Where would you go if you died?

The answer is no one knows.

Where are our lives coming from?

Will the universe be just like a tree?  When the tree grows and grows,  then suddenly you see a flower,  and later you can see the flower changed into a fruit,  and the fruit is the source of life.

Am I talking nonsense?

Yes, it needs to think.

If you are not serious enough,  people will tell you lies in the form of a story like a religion.

And then you will be living under a lie........as long as history goes.

It is not a joke.

It is serious.

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How big is the universe?

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How big is the universe?

This is a question we humans cannot answer.   Because there might be no boundary for this universe.   If you are able and if you can manage to go to the edge of the universe,   you can be sure that there will be an "outside" for your boundary.

You can create a story for this beginning.

You can create a hero who can fly extremely fast.

When your hero arrive the boundary of this universe,  he will be puzzled:  "Well,  am I supposed to reach the boundary?"   And he will be further puzzled that he is only at the beginning.

There will be some beginning, but there will not be any ending.

Every point can be a beginning point.  But there is no ending point.

Humans believed they can measure themselves.  Humans invented measurements.  Humans said they know how big is the earth.  

But the measurement might be meaningless.

Because measurement comes from compare.   You can only measure something against another something.   For example, you can use a ruler to measure.  But you can never know how big is your ruler.

Maybe one inch is one million mile in the eyes of the universe measurement.   You never know.

If you stand up, you might be as high as the moon.  Because all measurements are only temporary.  It is not true.

Now can we find the answer for the question?

How big is the universe?

Yes, you can have an answer like this:

Wow, it is really big.

How big is it?

Well,  it is very, very big.

(And then you stretch your arms wide open to show it.)

Then everyone is satisfied.

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What is meaning?

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What is meaning?  

This question is strange.  I have never realize the strangeness of this question.

It means:  what is the meaning of meaning?

And then you'll come to a question of no ending.

We need a meaning for everything.

You will not do things that is meaningless.

And you will find it unteresting why some people are always doing meaningless things.

And then you ask yourself, am I doing meaningless things?

Yes, what I think meaningful is for only a very short time and a very small space, isn't it?

Will my deeds remain when I am gone?

The answer is yes.

It is yes for the result.

One result will push for another result.

One deed will produce a next deed.

Is it true or is it only a theory?

Yes, it is true.

Otherwise there will be no meaning in life.

Meaning is the only important thing.

If there is no meaning there is nowhere to go.  It is the only thing important for this universe.

Nothing is important without a meaning.

Many people are doing meaningless things.  But one meaningless thing is not meaningless for another.

You see the birds are singing and the clouds are floating...... they have a meaning if you are seeing them,  and they are seeing you like you are seeing them.

It is true and we need to believe it.

Otherwise, everything will be meaningless.

So what?

It is because we do not want our life to be tasteless.

And this is the secret of the universe.

You want it tasteful.   You do not want it tasteless.

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How do life emerge from nothing?

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How do life emerge from nothing?

I can only observe how life emerges from something but not from nothing.

I had put sea water and sand in a fish tank for a month.   I observe it every day and finally I found little dark spots appeared on the glass.  They were conches.  But they were not coming from nothing.  There might be eggs in the sand.

Nothing is coming from nothing,  I suppose.

Music will not be born from a new guitar.

Creation is not from nothing.

The harder the struggle, the better the outcome.

If  China were not beaten by  foreign powers for so long a period,  New China will not have emerged.

Beating is useless to destroy.

Forgiving is better to transform:  Both sides will be  benefitted.

Wars can kill a nation, but not its thought.

It was like a doctor trying very hard to kill a kind of germs.  He tried all means to kill it but found the germs were already living inside his own body.

Try to forgive your enemies but not to destroy them.

Can life emerge from nothing?

The answer is no for humans.  Only god can create life from nothing.

We must always remember enemies were but the other kinds of lives.  They were not emerging from nothing.

The least part one can do is to leave them alone.

The better part is to help them.

The worst part is trying to destroy them.

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十五必圓 Full moon every 15th day

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                                                      太空清朗月明光

                                                     山巒影樹影上蒼

                                                     十五必圓必見路

                                                     家國旺興好農桑

                                      A crystal sky in moonlights gleam,

                                      Tree-shadowed hills dream.

                                      The moon’s face lights every way,

                                      May home and nation thrive—

                                      While ploughs yield every day.

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What is the secret of memory?

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What is the secret of memory?

A written memory is not a memory.  It is only a note.   You can keep a notebook.  But you cannot keep the notebook as your memory.

What is the secret of memory? 

It is in the meaning.

Anything with a meaning cannot be forgotten easily.

For example, can you remember the names of most American presidents?

Maybe one or two.

I can remember George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.  And now I can remember Barack Obama.

Those are people of meaning.

The meaning will take a note for you.   You don't need a secretary to put it down.

Anything without a meaning is worthless. 

Do not waste your time on it.

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What is the secret of growing?

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What is the secret of growing?

At first I thought the root is the secret of growing.   It seems to be possible because every tree needs a deep root for its growth.

And if I am not a tree and if I am only a satellite, where is my root?

I might say it is science.

And where is the root of the science?

And where is the root of the root?

You need a beginning for a beginning.

Yes, we might be in a circle of no end.

But sometimes we need to forget about that.

You are running fast and you don't need to stop and think why am I running so fast?

But if you can.

If you can stop and think.

You can be flying more than running.

My dream is to fly without wing.

I dream and I fly.

It is wonderful to explore your imagination in your dream.

Goodbye and see you in my dream.

( And you can see me in your dream )

...................This is the secret of growing.

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