After a hundred years

This morning my supervior gave us a lecture about Imperial Examinations. He didn't begin with the descrīption of process of Imperial Examinations, he encouraged the students to discuss the death. He stated his view of points from death to life, from individual to society. All the academic research is to answer these questions: what a life should be led by us, what a society should be accepted by us, what a country should be built by us......

My supervisor said, " the meaning of life only lies in life itself. When life perished, anything else which are based on it would be perished too......" However, with the development of civilization, we stress those originally attached to life more than life itself......

I could not express my supervisor's opinion accurately since my english is so poor. I like my supervisor very much. He is trying to find the truth of life.

I will die someday too. What a life should I lead? What can I leave in the world after my dead?

Remember a poem written by Emily Dickinson : After a hundred  years. 

After a hundred years

Emily dickinson

    After a hundred years

    Nobody knows the place，——

    Agony that enacted there，

    Motionless as peace.

    Weeds triumphant ranged，

    Strangers strolled and spelled

    At the lone orthography

    Of the elder dead.

    Winds of summer fields

    Recollect the way，——

    Instinct picking up the key

    Dropped by memory.