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Outside your career, what accomplishment brings you the most personal satisfaction?


In the course of pursuing my career, I have never forgotten the ultimate purpose of human life, that is, the pursuit of happiness. To fulfil this purpose, I have never failed to make the greatest possible effort to build up a happy family, the time-tested institution that I think is ideal for bestowing the most enduring happiness on human beings. My efforts have paid off, for I have been enjoying family happiness for nine years. In an age when families are breaking up in record numbers, I take my stable and happy family not only as a source of inspiration and strength but also a tremendous accomplishment in itself, which brings me at least as much personal satisfaction as my career successes.

My wife is different from most other girls I have known. Before I met her, I usually had to compete intellectually with the girls I dated. They thought that they would have to appear intelligent to be attractive to me, and I thought I would have to outperform them intellectually to attract them. This duel of mental power went on for a long time to no avail, until one day I met an undergraduate girl at a dancing party. Saying that she had come to "dance her homework away," she displayed a free spirit that set her apart from everyone else. Almost instantly, I decided that she was my type of girl. Luckily, she found me her kindred spirit, too. Soon we got married, for which she temporarily dropped out of university. Neither of us hesitated for the most important decision that we made in our respective lives. We shared an urge to do right away what we felt was the right thing to do. With this urge to take decisive action in pursuit of our true will, she later finished two degrees, one in accounting and one in English, and I, as I have told you in other essays, achieved career successes.

With a happy family, we have maintained a huge network of friends, who would fill apartment to the full on weekends. With friends bringing along their friends, we have got acquainted and made friends with people from all walks of life. We would share our experiences and trade our jokes. These friends not only bring us information and vision that enhance our respective careers but also help make our life meaningful and interesting.

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