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One of the most exciting points I found in last week’s discussion was whether people want to explore in new environment or stay comfortably in familiar one. The discussion reminded me the period of time when I applied American universities. People couldn’t understand why I wanted to give up the chance to attend a great university in China, find a stable job after graduation and stay close with my family because it has always been considered as a as good standard way of living. Under the atmosphere of queries and criticisms, it was sometimes hard to tell why I was so busy doing American college application. If I had not chosen this way, I would definitely have more time to spend with my friends and family. And the reality was I experienced tough brainstorming, painstaking information gathering and comprehensive source researching every day. At the same time, I tried to be the same as my classmates, trying to know what they were talking about, pretending to be a normal one but mentally doing lessons alone with another system. I feel regretful about that. But every time when I ask myself, how about having something cool and beautiful and extraordinary but hard or tough? I was and am and will always be the first one to say YES and I hope that it stays that way.

Now, when I retrospect that experience, I found that I’m a person who don’t want to spend my life flatly, believing what other believe is a right, doing what other believe I should do. I am more than a person who smile when someone else smile. I do want to find a comfortable place for me in the world, both physically and spiritedly. And maybe there isn’t such a place, because everything I want is also always changing.

Now, Inspired by other students’ experience and took further consideration of mine, I amazingly found that if we apply this theory to the evolving universe, it makes a lot of sense. Say, people wanted to find themselves a comfortable position in the world so that they created creative myth. But as time passed by, people born with more comprehensive observation and knowledge didn’t feel comfortable of always believing in what the older generation said, so that they worked on their own and created more stories that seemed more reasonable in their position. Gradually, what we call scientific story is formed. At the same time, in this case, we can feel free to put scientific story, which is what we believe nowadays, between the position of true and false. People will never find the “real truth” because they keep evolving and continuously seek more answers that satisfy themselves.