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.