You, a helmsman, steer the ship. The vicissitudes of history and the opportunities of times are just like the water flows with changing directions and blasts of strong or weak wind.

人自身好像是驾船的舵手，历史的倾斜与时代的选择好像时而变化着走向的水流与或大或小的风。

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Now, I try to roll with the distractions, let them fuel me, like an inefficient sailboat (somebody likes my profile picture) in a great wind which keeps changing directions.

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