August 09th 2017 Week 32nd Wednesday

Find hope from despair, life will become brilliant.

从绝望中寻找希望，人生终将辉煌。

Have you ever seen the movie Batman: The Dark Knight Rises?

There are many classic actor's lines full of philosophy in the movie.

And the most impressive one, in my opinion, goes as following:

I learned that there can be no true despair without hope.

Maybe I was touched by this line just because I have experienced the same thing before.

But the movie also told me that sufferings can build character.

If we can't surrender to the despairs and keep on fighting, the only effect of those frustrations is to make us strong as long as we aren't totally destroyed.

Hope is always better than despair, don't give up easily, perhaps our life will become brilliant if we can take some more steps forward.

I hope I can become strong, I expect I can see the days belonging to me. I beg you give me some blessings.

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

丰富多样是快乐的精髓。

From Aphra Behn.

Honestly speaking, I am really tired of writing down such quotes and making some breif comments about them.

I think my comments are ugly, lack of organization, sometimes I even failed to make clear the real meaning behind the quotes.

Is there any value in such routine works? I don't know, I just wrote them down and commented about them because I thought I had to do.

Maybe I have been lost my soul in these day-to-day routine works.

It seems I am just going along in this world from day to day, never giving my own thoughts about it.

Both in life and work, I just repeat such simple and low-grade tasks brainlessly, now that they don't require any special skills and I havn't consciously summarized the essential parts of them, it isn't surprising that I haven't gotten any improvement in my skills and any promotion in my career even though I have been working as a coder for several years.

When I was a greenhand, I was told that there was no need to spend our valuable time in reinventing the wheels.

But obviously I failed to defer to this wise advice.

Remember, when coding for practical projects, if we can consciously refine some frequently-used functions and encapsulate them, automate mundane and repetitive work as much as possible, then we can minimize the amount of manual programming involved in our work and concentrate on developing those new funcitons.

That can be called creative work, and in such ways we will become irreplaceable.