Some of us get dipped in flat,
some in satin, some in gloss.
But every once in a while
you find someone who's iridescent,
and when you do,
nothing will ever compare.

有人住高楼，有人处深沟，
有人光万丈，有人一身锈，
世人万千种，浮云莫去求，
斯人若彩虹，遇上方知有。
——《怦然心动》

Kierkegaard wrote: “Ever since my youth the thought had been with me that in any given generation there are two or three people who are sacrificed for the others, discovering in great pain what benefits the rest; and with sadness I found that the key to my own existence was the fact that I was one of these chosen ones.”

2019年底，在新冠疫情笼罩全球前夕，纽约时报发表了一篇文章：“This Has Been the Best Year Ever”，文中提到“If you’re depressed by the state of the world, let me toss out an idea: In the long arc of human history, 2019 has been the best year ever.”没想到截止目前甚至很久以后，对于这个世界来说，2019年都有可能是有史以来最好的一年。