50/365 resorting and re-thinking

I traveled to Europe and met a lot of people this month.

This experience refreshes my mind and enriches my feeling about the world, and makes me to reflect my life.

Today is the third day I come back to Taiwan.
When I got up, my waist is uncomfortable. I don't know why, maybe there are some problems here: food, lifestyle, or the nervous environment. That's okay, I hope I can figure out why, and adjust my own life. I hope my life is in order. 

I need to write down two things I just thought this morning.

1. about the thesis, I need to do more research on Chinese medicine/ traditional medicine, and write a real review article to explain the development of traditional medicine now, and tell my reader why the research of Linzhi is important. 

2. I went to Pro. S. discussion group and listen to his explanation of Ch1 of Karl Marx's Capital. this morning, some thing came to my mind. first, about the equivalence. A=B, the vale of A is expressed by the use value of B. The condition is that people are in the same group/society. The medium is fantasy. Therefore, A equal to B is a product of cultural connection, or symbol product. Humans use symbols to communicate. symbols are connection. Somebody say A equal to B, ex. Linzhi equal health, or function to better immune system. The message receiver must in some group to become believers, in other words, they must put themselves into a imaginary community where they are believing in the same thing and the belief is self-evidenced by the process of exchange. 

Can B also equal to A? no, take upper example, health is not equal to linzhi. Or, more exactly, health is not ONLY equal to linzhi. Health is an unfixed signifier which indicates different signifieds. Various groups to struggle symbolically to fix the relation between these different signifiers. In order to explain this, I must re-construct the historical process of meaning changing to tell my readers how the linzhi fetishism is possible in Taiwan, or in so-called Chinese culture field.

I need to write, to speak English more. I want to be a pro, therefore, I must practice more. I need not only to advance my English ability, also to better the attitude to learning and living. I hope I will be a more happy researcher, but not only researcher. I hope I can be a mature man with responsibility and confidence. Learning is not just for exchaging the certitude, but to better life, to make myself a better person.