Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Life will find a way...

This was quoted from an old movie, Jurrasic Park, I think free will of human are strong. Regardless the situation, there is a chinese saying, 天无绝人之路,山穷水复疑无路,柳暗花明又一村, where there will always be a way to every problem. Somehow the world seems to be a better place with different views and problems and social status. As learnt in Gulliver's Travels, there is no perfect utopia, everything had it's balance, just as taoist believed.

Free will is strong, the power of it could propel a person into doing extraordinary tings you can never imagine. Miracles, for example, contains free will too. The willpower so great that something unexplainable happen. There are of course many people who could do that, not criticizing any religion, however prayers contains willpower.

Then again, people are so blinded by what the society is doing, or perceived 'laws of life', that they are like bats blindly following the echos of society. As such, parents are always wishing their children to succeeds in life according to their perception.

Yes, though parents take their children successes and failures personally as they live vicariously through children, therefore they had lived to see us surpass them in all aspects, thus will feel 'succeeded' when we succeed. But life will find a way, and own ways, thus sometimes, 2 ways of 2 beings will clash.

Yet I strongly disagree where being rich and wealthy is success. Success is rather to be a fulfillment of spiritual needs. this could range from saving enough money for around the world in 80 days trip or to teach a student well as a teacher. As long as there is a sense of achievement in the area you had put in a lot of effort, you are successful.

Then I suddenly thing of Harry Porter where they coul take out and insert memories to you brain. Sometimes i hope to be able to do that. I am rather scared that the level of 'enlightenment' I have so far will one day erode away with my greed of probably money. Since Maslow's hierarchy of needs states that self-actualization is the highest level of needs, with basic needs (bought-able by money only) as its very base, once I had no parents as the pillars of the basic needs, how will I change as a person, behavior, mindset, psychology, philosophy? A metamorphosis change might be possible. I could just become as greedy as blinded as foolish as everyone else in the world.... as far as I know, I could be the 180 degree of it, a complete misanthrope. Today lit they were arguing how Suno ( A character who abandoned education upon witnessing a loving couple) is self-centered and condemning him. Yet I feel like he is justified to make his choice and find that I'm on verge on becoming him....

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