Mitch Albom's Three Books

i've finished reading his three books, for one more day, tuesdays with morrie and the five people you meet in heaven. thanks to jon, it was him letting me restore the joy of reading which i've forgotten for quite a long time.
mitch albom is such a great writer. i seldom read english books, but with his 细腻的笔触, i was totally emerged into the world he created. through his writing, 我看见人性的光辉.
jon asked which one i like the best. i have to say it's really hard to choose since these three books are very different. the five people you meet in heaven is a fascinating novel, you cannot move your eyes from this book while you're reading it. for me, it's a great novel and that's it. regarding the other two, i have to say i like them both so much and cannot tell which one is my better love. just like i cannot tell which son i like better. these two books are different, from my point of view. tuesdays with morrie is a book full of wisdom of a great person, i cried so much when i was reading the book. i have to say maybe it's because i read this book with the age i am now. i can relate so many things and so many experiences from those wisdom words. as to other book, for one more day, i read this book first and i love it so much. this book reminds me of the movie i like the best, field of dreams. i was touched deeply by those touching feeling either in the movie or in the book. for me, the above two books are the symbol of sense and sensibility, you need both to make you a human being.
jon said he likes tuesdays with morrie and ken likes for one more day the best. quite funny, this showed the difference of their characteristic. jon is a more 理性and ken is more 感性. it's hard to imagine that jon will be a 理性的人 when he was young, but gradually he developed into this catagory. on the contrary, it's really difficult to know that ken is a 感性的人 , maybe it's because he is an engineer and he was trained to be 理性. but i always remind myself that ken is a cancer, he has the softest heart with hard shell.
i'm glad that through these two books, i touched inside of my two boys' hearts. i relate many things to their thoughts aslo to mine. so i cannot tell you which one i like better........i believe when jon and ken reach to my age, they will say the same thing since they need both sense and sensibility to make them complete.

Four Of Us

this thought just came to me....four of us actually haven't gotten too much time being together alone for the past 22 years (ken will be 22 years old soon). joe was always the absent one when they were little. cannot blame him since he had work to do. after they went to lawrenceville, it seemed we had limited time just four of us being together alone. actually i just realize this now.
we were at jon's place for the last 10 days, just four of us. we had lots of things to do because jon moved his apartment from studio to one bedroom. although there were so many things needed to be done, jon and ken handled it well. watch them two brothers interact, remind me of them when they were little. they always fought with talks, but with their nonstop argument, their relationship has gone better and better. this is our blessing since we have these two beloved brothers.
i will treasure every moment of four of us being alone, because i know that this kind of moment will be less and less and even no more......this is the path every parents will experience. in the meantime, i'll treasure every moment with jon......joe and ken went back to taipei and only jon and i are still here, just two of us.

Ken's Graduation

it has been over three weeks since ken's graduation. we all went to his engineering school graduation on 5/14 and three of us, joe, jessica and i went to his commencement two days after. in terms of my own feeling, there is a slightly difference from what i had last year with jon's graduation. i attended jon's graduation with joy and proudness just like i did when they both graduated from lawrenceville. just pure joy and proudness. but with ken's graduation, there is something more.....hard to describe what it is. maybe it's because i've seen how hard he worked throughout past four years and he has never been that kind of person, maybe it's because i knew EE is not his best interest, maybe it's because i knew he tried his best to overcome all the difficulties he faced everyday in the class, in the lab and during exams.....although i've always known he can do it, still he is not a genius in this EE area. but he did it. he did it with descent grade. so, besides joy and proudness, there must be something more in my own feeling toward his graduation, maybe it's 心疼......
i could only hope he will find his own joy and satisfaction with his job or even further education. i can only say that no matter what he will do, he will do it good........