It's a tiring Friday full of Spanish. Though I spent quite a lot of
time on it, it somehow makes less but also more sense when digging into it. The
more I know, the more I'm lost because there are so much more to be discovered.
Probably it is like this when digging deeper into emotions or even realities,
no matter for good or for worse.
Movie "The Giver" describes an "ideal" world
where difference, hatred, racism, pain, grief, greed, death, and all the other negative
things, don't exist. While we get rid of them, other positive things like uniqueness,
joy, courage, mercifulness, curiosity, compassion, love are gone as well.
The ideal world seems so right from the beginning.
Yet, when you discover more, you realize how much more did you lose. The colors
of trees, flowers, grass, sunset, sky, and clouds; music of piano, flute,
violin, and vocal; any kinds of dance, even those that seems silly; we lost passion,
craziness, imagination, fear, anger, joyfulness, sadness that makes our world dazzling.
Yes, people could be selfish and greedy.
But we can be compassionate and selfless as well. Yes, death isn’t pleasant for
the most of the time. Yet death reminds people to cherish the limited time and
makes new life worth celebrating. Like Steve Job once said, "... death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped
it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single
best invention of life." While religions separate people, they also
bring people together. Just like love could be bitter-sweet. These are what
make us – us, human. There are the unbearable as well as things that should be
honored in this world.
We can’t take all the unbearable away but we
can help to make it less. It is all about how we want to make this world. When things
bring you down, just think about those that lift you up. And you’ll see the
world is so amazingly beautiful.
“There are only two ways to live your
life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything
is a miracle.”― Albert Einstein
Talk about death:
