One Swing Philosophy — What Golf Taught Me About Life

One of my chopsticks had been missing for almost two weeks. I looked everywhere in the kitchen. I checked the drawers, the dining table, and all the little corners where I might have accidentally put it. Nothing. I started wondering, “Where on earth did you go? Did you fly up to the sky, or did the ground swallow you?” 😄 The problem was that these chopsticks were part of a matching set. Only one chopstick was missing. Every time I ate, I had to use a different chopstick with it. It was such a small thing, but it kept bothering me. At one point, I even thought, “Maybe I should just throw the whole set away and buy a new one.” Then today, something unexpected happened. I was walking past a corner of my vegetable garden when I suddenly noticed something. Wait… is that it? It was my missing chopstick! I think I must have accidentally thrown it into the garden together with a huge pile of watermelon peels when I bought two watermelons and cut them up for the refrigerator...

It took more than five years. Maybe it was because of one wrong decision I made in my life. For almost ten years, I went through a difficult period that I never expected to experience. At some point, I stopped liking photographs of myself. This was strange because I had always loved taking pictures. Whenever I went somewhere with friends, on a picnic, or to a gathering, I was usually the one carrying a camera. I loved capturing people's expressions and the little moments of a day. But one day, I simply stopped taking pictures. I didn't like my face in photographs anymore. At first, I thought it was because I was getting older. “Is this what happens when we grow older? Does our face really become less attractive?” It made me a little sad. I have always been a person who smiles a lot. But somewhere along the way, I noticed that I was frowning more often. Without even realizing it, I became uncomfortable whenever someone wanted to take my picture. Then yesterday, while playing gol...

Yesterday, I discovered something really funny at the swimming pool. As usual, I went swimming. In one corner of the pool, more than 50 senior swimmers were doing an aqua exercise class. The instructor was calling out the movements, and loud music filled the entire pool. I swam energetically for about 20 minutes. Then I moved to the walking lane and started walking slowly through the water. That was when I noticed something funny. In another corner of the pool, about five or six senior swimmers were secretly following the aqua exercise class from a distance. When the instructor lifted a leg, they lifted their legs. When the instructor raised her arms, they raised their arms. When she lowered her legs, they lowered theirs. They were copying every movement. But the funniest part was their faces. They clearly knew that they were not actually part of the class. And somehow, that made it even funnier. Their faces were full of smiles, as if they were silently saying to one another, “We'r...