He may not be married, but he certainly knows what it's like to raise a family. "Life is short. As long as you can keep food on the table," says Lin philosophically, "nothing else really matters." Like so many of the deepest truths in life, the concept itself is not at all difficult to understand; it's just hard to live out.
「人生短短幾年，只要不餓死就好」，林春吉的人生哲學看來簡單，對許多人卻是知易行難，「只要做點自己想做，也有點意義的事情就好。」