Post CNY feelings
Happy Chinese new year!
Everyone seems to be in that mood of celebrations!
But I know of at least one person who is feeling sianz over the cny period!
We had a nice chat yesterday and today on msn! That friend was telling me, she dun like cny, where ppl often putting up a smile, meeting people and just telling lies abt themselves, trying to be normal and to just put on the "I’m ok" mask! So fake!
She also had some family issues and personal issues. She was telling me why she is always telling me all the sad stuff in her life! I find that quite true also. Most of the time when we talk is about the sad stuff like family problem, some of her or my personal issues in life (esp. on the issue of relationship with people). hmmz well I think as human, sometimes we just need a someone to complain to abt issues in our life and hope the other person that we are talking to have the same plight as we do or even worst off so that they can empathize and be sad wif us or maybe it will make us feel a bit better!
Cny day 1, digi-cam KO! Ultra Sianess... but ya so be it! It had been cranky for a long time, Finally RIP, a good reason to get a new one although I might still send it for repair. Most of the time of the 3 days holidays is spending in movies, TV, msn and BOOKS! YES BOOKS! What's new?
Ha-ha ok on a brighter side of CNY, had watch a nice movie! FEARLESS staring JET LI. It's quite a nice show! I like the part when JET LI WIN EVERYTHING but yet he lost his family due to that! He is so devastated that he just dun treasure life anymore! Then at the farm when he just being taught abt life. What leave me an impression is, why do we work so hard to try to be the top? What do we want at the end of all these working? It is for more money, is it for more status, is it for more of everything in life? Yet the question is, why do we need so much money for? A better life?
I think many of you had this feeling, this feeling of Sian-ness like what I mentioned above! What I appreciate in the movie is that little moment where jet li keep on stalking in the wheat because he felt that he is losing, he is trying so hard to gain back the lag that he lost! In the end he did gain back the lag that he lost and he did overtake the others who are wheating. But the result: Yes he won in speed but he lost in quality. In the same scene, the rest of the workers took a breather whenever there is a gush of wind, but Jet keep planting and kept going to maintain or shd I say advance his lead!
A simple illustration but a good one! It makes me wonder, 2 points:
1) Often when we are working or studying we had often look at the people around us, we find that we are lagging (in terms of money, status, results, or even studies itself), the common human will say, "Let’s put in more effort and rush a bit!" But it seems like the more we rush the worst the thing get! We might win in then end but at what cost? We wanted more money to get a better life but is it ness that more money = better life?
2) We had been working hard, so hard that we forget to rest! The Chinese saying" To rest is to prepare for a longer road ahead" but often we just forget about resting! Even God rested on the 7th day after his creation for 6 days! How many Sundays have you been doing work, busy preparing for Church service, busy rushing projects and revision? We forget to rest, rest not as explicitly like sleep, but time off to reflect, to just be alone, no music, no TV, no laptop, no sms. Just alone, thinking and enjoying and resting!
Ha-ha many of the stuff that I state seem to be the "ideal" condition but come think of it, it's that what we had been working so hard for. The "better life" that we slog day and nite, week after week, years after year!
Slow down your pace of life, how many times had we been rushing from point A to point B! You might just find tt better life that you had worked so hard for!!
Matthew 16:26
What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
Think abt it!
Everyone seems to be in that mood of celebrations!
But I know of at least one person who is feeling sianz over the cny period!
We had a nice chat yesterday and today on msn! That friend was telling me, she dun like cny, where ppl often putting up a smile, meeting people and just telling lies abt themselves, trying to be normal and to just put on the "I’m ok" mask! So fake!
She also had some family issues and personal issues. She was telling me why she is always telling me all the sad stuff in her life! I find that quite true also. Most of the time when we talk is about the sad stuff like family problem, some of her or my personal issues in life (esp. on the issue of relationship with people). hmmz well I think as human, sometimes we just need a someone to complain to abt issues in our life and hope the other person that we are talking to have the same plight as we do or even worst off so that they can empathize and be sad wif us or maybe it will make us feel a bit better!
Cny day 1, digi-cam KO! Ultra Sianess... but ya so be it! It had been cranky for a long time, Finally RIP, a good reason to get a new one although I might still send it for repair. Most of the time of the 3 days holidays is spending in movies, TV, msn and BOOKS! YES BOOKS! What's new?
Ha-ha ok on a brighter side of CNY, had watch a nice movie! FEARLESS staring JET LI. It's quite a nice show! I like the part when JET LI WIN EVERYTHING but yet he lost his family due to that! He is so devastated that he just dun treasure life anymore! Then at the farm when he just being taught abt life. What leave me an impression is, why do we work so hard to try to be the top? What do we want at the end of all these working? It is for more money, is it for more status, is it for more of everything in life? Yet the question is, why do we need so much money for? A better life?
I think many of you had this feeling, this feeling of Sian-ness like what I mentioned above! What I appreciate in the movie is that little moment where jet li keep on stalking in the wheat because he felt that he is losing, he is trying so hard to gain back the lag that he lost! In the end he did gain back the lag that he lost and he did overtake the others who are wheating. But the result: Yes he won in speed but he lost in quality. In the same scene, the rest of the workers took a breather whenever there is a gush of wind, but Jet keep planting and kept going to maintain or shd I say advance his lead!
A simple illustration but a good one! It makes me wonder, 2 points:
1) Often when we are working or studying we had often look at the people around us, we find that we are lagging (in terms of money, status, results, or even studies itself), the common human will say, "Let’s put in more effort and rush a bit!" But it seems like the more we rush the worst the thing get! We might win in then end but at what cost? We wanted more money to get a better life but is it ness that more money = better life?
2) We had been working hard, so hard that we forget to rest! The Chinese saying" To rest is to prepare for a longer road ahead" but often we just forget about resting! Even God rested on the 7th day after his creation for 6 days! How many Sundays have you been doing work, busy preparing for Church service, busy rushing projects and revision? We forget to rest, rest not as explicitly like sleep, but time off to reflect, to just be alone, no music, no TV, no laptop, no sms. Just alone, thinking and enjoying and resting!
Ha-ha many of the stuff that I state seem to be the "ideal" condition but come think of it, it's that what we had been working so hard for. The "better life" that we slog day and nite, week after week, years after year!
Slow down your pace of life, how many times had we been rushing from point A to point B! You might just find tt better life that you had worked so hard for!!
Matthew 16:26
What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
Think abt it!
posted by Rongjie at 12:08 AM
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