The New Year has come. Yet I wish the New Year is yet to come. This wish is partly a fact if your roots can be traced back to the East Asian subcontinent. If you strictly follow the Lunar Calender (some people call it the Chinese Calender but the fact is, it is used not only by the Chinese. So we've got to be fair to eveyone here), we are still in the year of a pig.
Even if you insist that the Lunar Calender is not valid and the New Year has indeed arrived, it's a mere 16 days into the year and I still want to comment on it.
So many things happened lately that I pondered seriously about life and death. Mind you, it is not one, but quite a few. When you see all these incidents happening in the shows, you would think that they have been highly dramatized and sensationalized to create public appeal or to generate some form of sympathy from the audiences.
But when it happens to the people around you, you would realize: they are not at all dramatized. The truth is even more so and sometimes, so exposed and crude that even after a month you still find it hard to digest, accept and absorb it into your mind, and face it with courage and dignity. And all the while, you still have to tell yourself to be strong and to live without fear.
To live completely without fear would be hypocritical and being man we are bound to have emotional weaknesses.
But I guess, now it's all about living with courage and dignity. Accept it and face it with courage and dignity, and it is also the time to be extremely stubborn. Fear is bound to surface now and then, here and there. The overcome fear with even more courage and stubbornness is a challenge, but achieveable.
So let's just say, we all need to be strong, have to be strong, should be strong and must be strong.
有我们大家在，天塌不下来！ |
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