Perhaps you have got married or even had several kids around you, which is an inescapable tune of life at the time, but it matters little to me.

• 那时我相信我已成为一个基督教徒（因我不愿做和尚），度着清静的严肃的虔诚的清教徒的独身生活，不求露头角于世上，一切的朋友，也都已疏远了。