-
“No one ever steps in the same river twice”
Heraclitus (Greek: Ἡράκλειτος), a philosopher of ancient Greece, once said: "No one ever steps in the same river twice". The first person who translated it into Vietnamese rendered it as "No one bathes twice in the same river," and the phrase remains unchanged in my language. The first time I heard this quote, I was fifteen or sixteen. My youthful…
-
The Transformation of the Fall
The rain is falling steadily out there by the window. The weather has grown much colder. I had just dozed off for a bit when the sound of rain and thunder woke me from my deep slumber. I dreamed of sunny days at Ho Chi Minh City campus and freezing-rainy days in Bao Loc, these two scenes altered in my…
