Chapter 159: Dorm-room talk
Su Can was someone who followed his inclinations. He had dealt with far too many people in his previous life, and in this one, he wanted to live more on his own terms. At the same time, he was cautious by nature. When it came to anything that could affect his interests, he naturally proceeded with the utmost care, as though treading on thin ice.
As for something like Nanjing University's FEEC Club, a complicated circle meant complicated relationships. Wading into those muddy waters did not mean he would truly thrive there. Unless he had the ability to conjure a storm out of a clear sky, he was much better off keeping his head down and taking the road to self-fulfillment one step at a time.
Su Can certainly needed no one to teach him what social circles were. In his "Anyone can become president" speech at Yale University, former US president Bush had said that his college life had essentially consisted of getting to know all sorts of circles and people. By graduation, he had befriended a quarter of Yale's students, and these exceptional elites later provided enormous support for his empire in politics and business. The words "college life" carried profound implications. They encompassed not only a wealth of academic knowledge and an intellectual atmosphere, but also many of the ideas that underpinned success or failure in life, along with a rich, varied existence and friends worth making.
Although Su Can did not need college life to rebuild the ideas supporting his own life, that rich variety of experiences, knowledge, and academic atmosphere were worth revisiting.
If a circle could not bring him friends worth making and merely maintained certain relationships of interest, then, to Su Can, it could only be called a relationship