If ask how can the drain be so clean, it’s because there is running water from the source

My famous quotation is a sentence from a famous Chinese poem "thoughts generated from reading(观书有感)" by Xi Zhu, "If ask how can the drain be so clean, it’s because there is running water from the source(问渠哪得清如许，为有源头活水来)." Literally, it means that the reason for a drain to keep clean and clear is that there is always new water coming from the source to refill the drain. By using this metaphor, the author want educate people to keep reading in order to keep minds clear. Here the drain indicate one's mind while the water indicates new thoughts. But as years passed by, O have my own understanding of this sentence.

I knew this sentence at the beginning of my primary school, but didn't really understand the meaning behind. Now I know that life is like a book which will never be out of inspiration and surprise. If one want the mind to grow up appropriately with the pace of physical age, he or she needs to own an awareness of thinking about and learning from and life all the time.

I especially feel that quotation true after I came to NYU. New York is indeed a metropolis and NYU is indeed a place where smart students gathered. After I come here, I know a group of new friends and subtle conflicts happen. I first felt the dilemma so challenged and had no idea to deal with the complicated situation. However, I was inspired and supported by someone else and what's more, I fortunately know humanity better and improve my EQ through those series of things. In China, most students  lead a comparatively simpler life and think less about people and real life just as I did before. Before I came here, I wondered a lot about life but tried in vain to find the answer. But I really feel people here are different. They teach me in various ways and make my world more colorful and those previous wonders got answered. To be with these people is like to drain fresh water to my well of mind. These various experiences help me become more mature.

In that sense, it is important to explore new things to enrich one's life, no matter by reading or learning life itself.

Response to Aristotle's theory of social justice

1. According to Aristotle, when people argue about justice, they usually are "speaking of a limited and partial justice," which means that the people who are talking about justice don't have comprehensive understanding about justice themselves. Justice is a concept applied to both people and things. It is easier for people to judge things from the point of view of an outsider, while it is pretty hard to judge justice between people, because in this way the judgement is subject instead of absolute object.However, it is even harder for people to be aware of their incorrect judgement, because they imagine themselves to be correct. 2.In Aristotle's example, if people in one group are unequal in wealth, they would think themselves unequal from all aspects. If people in another group are equal  In free birth, instead, they would consider themselves in a society where everything is distributed equally. 3.Because it is nearly impossible for people to notice justice objectively in every field of life. On one hand, people easily focus more on the aspects they care. For example, the disabled seek justice more in social welfare while the rich seek more justice in the solid protection of personal property. On the other hand, people in different social classes have different opinions. When justice is discussed in a larger sense, more elements just as   wealth and free birth should be taken into consideration. So the situation will get more and more complicated. But when justice is thought about in a specific case, the number of variable is limited to few. The situation then becomes simpler. 4.As Aristotle points out in "A Definition of Justice," "political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship. Hence they who contribute most to such a society have a greater share in it than those who have the same or a greater freedom or nobility of birth but are inferior to them in political virtue; or than those who exceed them in wealth but are surpassed by them in virtue." In this case, the mass may consider the extra tax on the rich a kind of justice while the minority of wealthy people must take it as injustice. The conflict is caused by different social classes between the two sides. Whether the tax is justice or not shouldn't be simply answered "yes" or "no" according to personal will. It should depend on whether a wealthy person contributes more to the society in virtue sense. If he or she does, then he or she deserves the possession and shouldn't pay extra tax only because of more possession.