Retreat place Everyone would meet troubles and feel lost sometimes, and I'm no exception. When I encountered difficulties, the first place I would head in; however, was not my friends' houses or my home but the library which was nearby my house. Entering the library, I glanced that my most favorite seat was empty. The seat was located in a serene corner which behind the numerous of shelves. This seat would be my first option resulting from I require some place to concentrate my mind and not to be disrupted by anybody, Right here, I was fond of cleaning my mind by reading historical books. In my opinion, history could tell me the ways to deal with obstacles. Many great figures would make mistakes and run into problems. Thus, I was able to learn experience and get inspirations from their life story. As I read historical books, in the same time, I was processing a conversation with myself. From self-introspect, I relieved my self from depression; improving myself.

Decorate a new house For convenience, I rented the apartment, which no equipped elevator. It sounds inconvenient to move, the apartment was my best choice, though. The apartment was in walking distance from my campus, and there has a number of vendors and shops surrounding it; moreover, I was allowed to cook in the apartment. (almost apartments for the student are not allowing cooking) Most important is the rent there is relatively reasonable. With excitement, I start to decorate my house. Firstly, I changed the walls' color into snow and navy, putting my favorite paintings and creations on the walls. Suddenly, the whole room totally different and leveled up to the artistic room. Secondly, I greened my house by randomly setting the plants, such as violent, sunflower, and freshly. In this way, I was able to touch nature daily even though I live in the concrete jungle. Finally, as I had placed all furniture properly, this big work should be done. Looking around my house, I felt a sense of achievement arising up cause I did all of this on my own. However, It also awarded me that I was alone since I became a college student.Thus, I was glad to have a wonderful start.

A class outing It is an unforgettable experience that my high school teacher asked her students to clean the beach. I was been deeply affect by she said"we are part of the world, while our mother earth has been suffering, we have to stand up for her and take responsibility." When we arrived southern beach of Taoyuan only to see the uncountable garbage spreading out over the beach, even some were floating on the sea. In a huge shock, I realized what a devastation our human had brought to mother earth. Thus, even though the sun was scorching, none of us complained. Finally, taking an afternoon we finish our job. I arise a sense of achievement as seeing the beach return to clean again. After then, I made up my mind to cut down my daily waste, there is no planet B.

Unexpected things After a long, tiring workday, I took a bus as usual. I expected a happy bus ride. However, the ride wasn't pleasant at all. The unhappy bus ride started by giving a seat to others. After getting on the bus, I was lucky to find a seat. As I was ready to rest my eyes, an old man stumblingly got on the bus. I was worry about him for he might fall over, he looked gaunt, diminutive and all his hair was white. Therefore, I immediately stood up and went forward to him, telling him that he could have a seat. Unexpectedly, there were two young girls were chatting, one stood, one seat next to me, the former took my seat rapidly while I just left. Her in consideration literally got on my nerves, because I heard these two girls were talking about the old man before. Irritated, I told the girl who sat on my seat"please, stand up, this seat is prepared for the elder" Might she notice the unpleasant on my face. She stood up right away. When the old man finally got seat, he told me "thank you, young man. "

An unhappy night Assigning and sharing daily chores with my roommate is no panic. I am organized, but she is kind of sloppy. Even though we make a list of who is charge of which part of the chores, she either forgets to do it or does it carelessly. I am usually unhappy with that. Last Sunday, I came back to the apartment and only saw the living room full of empty pizza boxes, cans, and the Kitchen sink full of dirty plates and cups. I asked her what had happened. she shrugged her shoulders and told me that she held a party this morning, then asked me to help her clean this mess. At that moment, I choked with rage, what a shameless person she is! Then, I left home immediately because I am afraid I would do something to her which might bring me to jail. Since that, I decided to live without roommates forever.

Put up or shut up What kind of adult do I want to be? Actually, I not quite sure, but the only thing I can sure is I don't want to be a kind of person like my father. He smoked every day in our home, the smell was so stinky that I needed to hold my breath. I couldn't understand why he kept smoking. I mean, smoking the cigarette will damage one's health and cause bad infections to those who breathe in second-hand smoke. However, even another family member tried to convince him not to smoke, he still did it. Nevertheless, one thing most upset me is he complained about anything, such as his boss didn't treat him well which made him kept changing jobs or our house too small to live. All of these annoyed me cause my mother work hard for the same job for 2 decades, most time of her work needs to deal with a crowd of tricky clients. But she never complained. Yet, I still learned something from my father- put up or shut up.

Insomnia I hadn't slept well for half a year. It happened suddenly, I couldn't fall asleep unless I tossed and turned for 3 or 4hr; however, when I was asleep, the time for rest already ran out. I tried so hard to figure out what caused that, but it turned out I couldn't find any way to fix it. It felt just like the worrying box in your mind only opened when you want to sleep. I'm suffering from that because insomnia leads to fatigue, letting me lost my all-day energy. Every time I wake up, I feel upset and self-blame, I truly hate myself can't control my own. All things just like a painful cycle, and depression almost swamp me.