Kylin Zhang

I have heard a simile. There is a kind of people like the black cats, who just remedy their wound in the dark, don’t want anyone to see it. I don’t know why, but this simile makes me thinking of you, Kylin Zhang.

I used to talk to my friend about you, I told her everything about you was tugged at my heartstrings, makes my heart ache. But my friend laughed, and said that how this formidable man can makes your heart ache? We can only look up to him.

Kylin Zhang, see, she cannot understand you.

In her mind, you are powerful, perfect, just likes the sovereign descends the world. You can face to thousands of enemies without batting an eyelid. But she cannot see, the blood on your body after the fight; she cannot see, the vulneva under your clothes; she cannot see, you remedy your wound in the dark silently.

But I know. I know, no matter how painful you are, you will still stay calm and collected, and let the blood dye your blue shirt into red.

Kylin Zhang, I know your responsibility and your mission, but I still wish you happiness.

Ps: Kylin Zhang is a character from the novel, The Graver Robbers’ Chronicles.

Children's Competitions

 In recent year, the competitions are more and more common in every part of society. People hold different opinions and always have conflicts about whether children should have competitions.

Competition makes the best people survive in the society. It is the same with children. In my opinion, children who always have competition will always have more motivation in their study and life. Competitions will develop the children’s potential talent and make them gain more experience. Some people may think that the unhealthy competitions will lead children to bad habits and bad characteristics. But I think most of the children’s competitions are healthy and these competitions will mound children’s positive attitude of winning and losing. They will also behave good children’s popularity which will make them perform more about themselves. And the children who perform well in healthy competitions will also perform well when they step on the real stage of society.

That’s why I think that competition is essential because it is about survival ability. While have competitions, cooperation can also take place. Competitions are important in children’s lives.

Diminishing Marginal Utility

In recent years, economy is developing in a very fast speed. People get richer and richer. But the truth is gaining money doesn’t mean gaining happiness. More and more people feel that they are not as happy as they feel to be. Some of the economic theories can explain this situation.

As economy develops, citizen’s income increases which means they can buy more goods than before because can be willing for and be able to. When people’s income is not high enough, they are not able to buy many goods. For instance, a person may only but one bottle of cola when he was poor, but the utility he got from this bottle of cola is very high. If his income rises, he may but 10 bottles of cola, but the utilities he gets from the 2^nd bottle, the 3^rd bottle and the 10^th bottle are not the same as the first one. The phenomenon is called diminishing marginal utility. Utility is the satisfaction people get from doing something. Marginal utility is the addition utility derived from the consumption of one more unit of a particular good. Diminishing marginal utility means that the marginal utility gained from the consumption of a product tend to fall as consumption increases.

So, as economy develops, people’s income rises. The ability of consumption by consumers increases. People but more products and more mount of products which will cause diminishing marginal utility. That can explain the reason why people have less happiness than before.