When ever I'm asked what exactly it was that helped me through my darkest days not only to survive but to move past those circumstances and to ultimately attain a level of success and fulfillment that once sounded impossible, what comes to mind are two events.

One of them took place in the early 1980s, when I was twenty-seven years old, on an unusually hot, sunny day in the Bay Area. In the terminally overcrowded parking lot outside of San Francisco General Hospital, just as I exited the building, a flash of the sun's glare temporarily blocked my vision. As I refocused, what I saw changed the world as I knew it. At any other point in my life it wouldn't have struck me so powerfully, but there was something about that moment in time and the gorgeous, red convertible Ferrari 308 that I saw slowly circling the lot---driven by a guy obviously in search of a parking----that compelled me to go and have a life-changing conversation with him.

到底是什么帮助我度过了最黑暗的日子，不仅幸存下来，而且超越了那个环境，获得了一定程度的成功以及难以至信的成就感？每当我被问及这个问题时，有两幅场景就会闯入我的脑海。

一件发生在1980年代，那是湾区的一个大晴天，热得非比寻常，我27岁。旧金山总医院门口的停车场停满了车，我离开医院大门时，强烈的阳光刺得我睁不开眼。等我眼睛缓过来，眼前的一切改变了我对世界的本来的认知。映入眼帘的是一辆炫酷的红色敞篷法拉利308在慢慢兜圈子，显然在找停车位。放在过去我也不会如此震撼，但此时此刻发生，一定有什么意义，它驱使我去找车主进行了一次改变命运的对话。