Hello. 
Farewell.
, our beloved friend and God’s loyal servant, has left for the Heaven. We grieve for his living, but we should also be grateful for the peace, happiness, and satisfaction on his face at the very last second. He left on Saturday, the Sabbath. The Sabbath recalls to us that, in the end, all our journeys have to bring us home (“Why we need to slow down our lives” by Pico Iyer – Moreau FYE Week One). God compliments hard working, yet He also indicates that always hurrying up is unnecessary and wrong. David slowed down his life on the day all Christians are ought to rest, and we should be thankful to God’s merci and love to him. 
Live a well-lived life became David’s lifelong objective when he was in college. Fr. Hesburgh, former president of the University of Notre Dame and a leader in the civil rights movement, once said that: “It wasn’t how I expected to serve the country, but I was serving in my own way.” (“Hesburgh Film” by Jerry Barca and Christine O’Malley – Moreau FYE Week Two) David realized that the core of a well-lived life is not what you do but how you do. The content does not matter as long as one live his own life and does not look back or regret. 
A well-lived life has an inception and also an end. At the very moment David started searching for a satisfying life, he also thought about his death. We tend to forget that there always will be an end as we try our best to enjoy the very present. However, just like a full sentence must come with an ending punctuation, it is death that makes a life complete and one’s time limited. Sister Alethia, a nun spent years emphasizing the significance of remembering death once said that “remembering death keeps us awake, focused, and ready for whatever might happen — both the excruciatingly difficult and the breathtakingly beautiful” (“Meet the Nun Who Wants You to Remember You Will Die” by Ruth Graham – Moreau FYE Week Three). Always remembering that life is short helped David avoid wasting time, and eventually received happiness.
David graduated from Notre Dame with a degree in Business and became a business consultant soon after graduate. You might know that his original goal was to stay in this industry and earn him and his family a fantastic living. But career is a developmental process that will recur throughout one’s lifetime and one will move between stages as one learn and grow (“Navigating Your Career Journey” by Meruelo Family Center For Career Development – Moreau FYE Week Four). Life is full of possibilities. After working in consulting for 8 years, David set up a social enterprise in the Tibetan area to design creative and eco-friendly tourism based on Tibet's culture and environment. David’s family funded a Tibetan orphan for decades and doing something for Tibetans had always been his hope. The organization was quite a success, but its earnings were certainly minor compared to a consulting group. However, a life in rural area was quite relaxing for David, and he once said that “There should be a spiritual tie between me and this people.” It took him twenty years to make this organization truly influential and beneficial to the entire Tibetan area. At the age of fifty, David turned to the area of sustainability and aimed to contribute to build a better future for future generations. He focused on renewable energies with a concentration in solar panels. The cheap and convenient products were welcomed by a lot of Chinese families. 
No one can have a completely smooth life, so does David. He encountered many difficulties when trying to build a bridge between China and the United States. The competitions and even conflicts between the two powers made it difficult for him to travel and invite experts to participate in his projects. His cultural identity could also be awkward should turbulent times happen. But David knew that why questions trap us in our past while what questions help us create a better future (“The right way to be introspective (yes, there’s a wrong way)” by Tasha Eurich – Moreau FYE Week Six). He managed to mitigate negative influences coming from the political level, using his pertinence and sincere. Nongovernmental communications were held frequently, and academic discussions in the realm of sustainability continued. Starting from Notre Dame’s huge alumina group, David expanded his network in both countries and enlarged the voice of peace and friendliness. 
“None of us is an island, an autonomous and independent ‘I,’ separated from the other.” (“Why the only future worth building includes everyone” by His Holiness Pope Francis – Moreau FYE Week Seven) One of the shiniest parts of David’s life is his connections to all people he met. He treated everyone equally with innate kindness and sympathy. From janitors to CEOs, he enjoyed talking with anyone and could learn from any conversation he had. As a cultural minority, he was welcomed in college and beyond. He maintained fantastically good relationships with fellas from his college dorm and companies he worked for. Most importantly, he had a super lovely family. David’s parents enjoyed longevity, and his wife brought him a boy and a girl. He loved them so much and so did them. 
Today, we gather here to bade farewell to our beloved , who lives deeply in our heart. No tear is needed, and smiles are essential to welcome his soul into our Father’s hug.