| I didn't have a happy time in my university, but who had in those days when the government kept warning us that the communist China was coming, and all of us young men must stand up to protect our country? I didn't like our stern old department hall either, for there were various animal, including one real human, skeletons standing in the shelves or hanging down from the ceiling, looking with their sinister, dark, hollow eyes and teasing with their sharp, naked and tarnished teeth at me as I walked in the dismal pale twinkling fluorescent lights of the hall way. But I just didn't have the courage to take another Joint College Entrance Examination, which was extremely challenging but absolutely required for each Taiwanese student who wanted to enter the universities, and choose another major. Besides, I had a girlfriend who I loved so, and so did she to me, in this department; she was the only comfort I had in those gloomy days. However, this romance had to come to the end when I graduated, enlisted as a compulsory serviceman in the army, and left her for two years. On the day I finished my military service, she told me she had a new boyfriend: that destroyed my dignity completely, and I suffered miseries, did not know when and how the darkness terminated. Then came my angel: my classmate and best friend's wife introduced to me her best friend Sophia, who later became my wife and gave a sweet family. Ever since I got married with Sophia, I often wonder, "Are my misery in the university and the military service in the army kinds of blessing in disguise for me?" After a 25-year enduring marriage with Sophia, I would definitely answer, "Yes, they are!"
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