The thorny road to heaven
Watching this ancient Marie Curie movie trailer suddenly made me think of something I read once in a chinese handout that listed examples of what could be used in those chinese essays you used to write. You know, handy anecdotes for your yi4 lun4 wen2.
Anyway here's what's roughly written: apparently Marie Curie had only two chairs in her house. When her husband suggested buying more she rejected the notion because it would mean guests would stay longer in their home, and that's not what they want is it!
This is supposed to be a 'you should do this' anecdote, ie this is supposed to be a model example. Because it meant that they're focused people who will not allow themselves to be distracted from their real aim.
(I'm a bit tired now that's why my paragraphs and sentences are rather fragmented, so forgive me for this.)
Granted, it is a good thing to be focused. People who allow themselves to be distracted easily, I think I'm one of them, rarely achieve success. The people who become great and noble are driven and keep their goal in their minds most of the time. If you allow yourself to talk on the phone for two hours every time a phone call comes you'll never get down to doing what you're supposed to do on your glorious path of fame and fortune and nobel prizes.
Here is where the problem appears. The biggest question in life. Not To be or not to be (most people don't occupy their time thinking of whether they should suffer the slings and arrows of fortune or just give up and jump down, you jump I jump. I think.) No, the greatest question in life is To What Extent.
I mean doesn't the road to success have any room for a comfy sofa?
And imagine if this is what is a good example is for the chinese, it doesn't take much to figure out where that commonly held notion of the chinese being overly mercenary and competitive comes from. Talking about the chinese my sis and I were loling at this article in sunday times yesterday about this couple who was already looking for potential wives for their one year old son. You know, because they love birds so much, china will be flooded with predicted 20 million guys or something in the future who can't find wives. These parents are only getting a headstart before the peak hour.
Another lol piece of news is that google pulled out of china. Lol.
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