Moisturizing: Mr. Thirteen's Day

Author: Zhu Yeqing
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Very nourishing, colloquial, meaning comfortable, like a drought-stricken plant receiving rainwater. I have few demands on life and am easily satisfied. Two ounces of old wine and a joke can make me feel blissful, as if walking in the rain and forgetting to hold an umbrella, still laughing heartily. The art of being nourished can be easily grasped. For example, drinking wine at noon has many benefits. After drinking, one can sleep soundly, and upon waking, the daytime is still visible, making one feel refreshed, as if dividing the day into two halves and living an extra day. It turns out that lunchtime wine is a magical secret to prolonging life. Drinking too much wine never makes one understand the value of life. For instance, in marriage, running around in gender relationships for half a lifetime, I never figured out which way the door of marriage opens. Indeed, I cannot determine whether my life's path is falling into a trap or escaping one. Thus, my mind becomes hazy, and interpersonal interactions become simple. It's hard to be smooth in dealing with people, and I speak directly, as if a single intestine runs from my mouth straight to my anus, with no twists or turns in between. Once, a friend frankly told me, "Your biggest flaw is your lack of smoothness." I helplessly defended myself, "My biggest strength is my lack of smoothness." Marriage and drinking are actually similar. No matter how it is, the goal must be nourishment, not whether the process is smooth or not. God never stops you from dying just because you are smooth. Smoothness is truly useless. Therefore, I consider my lack of smoothness as a treasure for obtaining nourishment.