Live according to your imagination. 500 words after reading.

Spanish young man David published his new book "Living According to Imagination" in China. The book is written in Chinese and tells how he came to China from Spain and became a street singer from a doctor. story. His friend and best-selling author Da Bing sincerely recommended on Weibo: "I sincerely recommend this book and also this godly man. Not only because he is my wandering singer brother, but also because he is a truly interesting person: a A person who lives responsibly according to his own imagination. David Lou was born in 1986 in an ordinary family in Madrid, the capital of Spain. When he first came to China, he gave himself the Chinese name "David Lou" based on the transliteration. He discovered that Chinese people have the habit of using business cards, so he printed business cards for himself. Every time he handed out business cards, he would always laugh, and some people would come up to hug him. Later, he realized that his name was wrongly printed on the business card. The surname is printed as "" instead of "楼". Because of such a mistake, he discovered that his name could bring joy to everyone, so he made the mistake and chose the surname "Lou". David grew up in a relaxed and open-minded family atmosphere and loved literature, music, movies, and travel. When he was a child, he dreamed of becoming an ice hockey player, but when he was 18 years old, he was injured and quit his team. Later, he decided to pursue a career in medicine and was admitted to the best medical school in Spain, Pamplona Medical College. After graduating in 2010, David thought that although the profession of a doctor was stable, the nine-to-nine life would make him "unable to continue doing what he likes, and then he would not be a good doctor." So he decided to give himself a Take a gap year and go to China to “see the outside world.”

As for why he chose China, David replied that he had been to many countries for internships during college, and after graduation he wanted to go somewhere he didn’t know. And "I think I can learn Chinese, a new language with a completely different system from other languages. ... I think if I can read books in Chinese, I will have a complete understanding of the world." Qiongyou sees the world, Discovering yourself through travel is quite popular among young people all over the world. David traveled thousands of miles to China and chose to travel on a budget. In fact, before coming to China, he went to Canada, France, Belgium, the United States, the Dominican Republic and many other countries. Regarding the meaning of travel, David’s answer is that travel is an attitude and a mood of wanting to experience new things. Traveling is not just about arrival, it doesn’t even need to start. When your heart is ready, you will naturally see new things. My first year in Shanghai was simple and happy. But a year later, he immediately faced the question of whether to return to China to become a doctor. He was troubled by the fact that apart from being a doctor, he was an amateur in everything else. He felt that he could not do anything well and could not do anything well.

After David arrived in Dali alone, he unexpectedly discovered that there were new possibilities for his future. He found that "amateur" abilities are not terrible, and that with a "professional" attitude, you can do professional things: he used a professional attitude to complete a nationwide concert tour, realized his dream of acting and releasing an album, and even wrote a poem in Chinese Such a book. "Many of our ideas seem impossible to realize, but in fact life depends on choices." "The best life is impossible to plan. You can work hard to go in one direction, but if your heart is flexible enough, the specific things you do will It will surpass your imagination.”

When asked if there are many young people in Spain who are brave enough to be themselves, David said that in fact, Spaniards and Chinese are very similar in this aspect. Tradition. "Most of my classmates have the same aspirations since high school: go to college, find a stable job, buy a house, get married, and continue working until retirement age. But there should be many people (like me) who want to let go own heart and live an extraordinary life."