Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Lifetime Friends Needed Especially When in Depression

These two days, I have been in deep depression, mostly derived from the pressure of study and the advent of the exam. I got to do something to cheer myself up. Hence, I forced myself to jog for 20 minutes or so, and, after dinner, I watched Kang Xi Lai Le(康熙來了), a popular and entertaining Taiwanese Show. Today I watched the episode about 周渝民, one member from F4 which is the most sensational group both in China and in Taiwan.

Everybody may encounter some kind of emotional disturbance now and then. One has to learn how to cope with it. I think the best way could be talking with friends, listening to favorite music, doing some exercises, watching some movies or TV programs which can make one cry or laugh so that one can temporarily forget his or her current condition. The emotion management could be more difficult for those who live alone, and, unfortunately, I am belonged to this kind of groups.

Everyone turns to especially need friends, when suffering. At the moment when one becomes fragile, however, one only want to talk to those “lifetime friends”, instead of general friends, who might be colleagues or virtual friends on the cyber space. Unfortunately, most people may find it difficult to make lifetime friends since leaving campus, because most friends that people made after graduation involved with some sorts of sophisticated interests between.

When I was in college, I do make some lifetime friends, which by definition means, no matter how long we have not seen each other, no matter how far away our locations currently is, or no matter what might happen in the future, we believe we can still be friends until die.

At the moment, fortunately, I somehow feel like making two more lifetime friends, Olive and Henry, who is a local Chinese. Before, I used to think that it is impossible for me, a Taiwanese, to make any real friends with the locals. Perhaps, I was wrong.


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