1.Well, he came back with enthusiasm for work, but he hadn’t get the projects which was promised to be his; he enjoyed life but he had to pay half of his salary for his single apartment; he loved his family, but his wife together with his daughter struggled in his hometown; he came back to look for a kind, trustworthy, human academia but only found a cruel, unreliable and ruthless fact just as he wrote in his last words.

2.As far as I know, his secret is doing nothing. He usually sits in the sun for a couple of hours in the morning. After lunch he takes a nap. And he takes a walk every evening. He enjoys himself very much.