Saturday, December 10, 2016

人生的暮年

来自南洋大学校友的信息供大家阅读北京著名女作家杨绛於2016 年 5月高齡105 歲過世. 下面是她在103 歲時的一段鼓勵:

花開花謝,潮起潮落,不經意間我們正走向人生的暮年。

從呱呱墜地到兩鬢染霜,歲月的行囊裡装滿了酸甜苦辣。接下來,在夕陽的路上能走多遠,取决於我們的體魄和心態。在曾經的歲月裡,每個人都會有大小不一的光環,但這光環已是“過去式”。當光環退去,誰都是柴米油鹽,誰都是一介布衣。

“我們曾如此渴望命運的波瀾,到最後才發現:人生最曼妙的風景,竟是内心的淡定與從容。

我們曾如此期望外界的認可,到最後才知道,世界是自己的,與他人毫無關係。

今天,我們生活的國度裡,銀髮浪潮席卷而來,老年人的比例越來越高,年輕人的負擔越来越重。老年朋友們,何不錯開尖峰時間出行,给公共交通緩解壓力,與年輕人相互理解、相互關懷、相互尊重,何樂而不為?

不要满懷焦灼期待子女常回家看看。子女們有各自的生活和事業,他們像永不停歇的陀螺一樣,上有老下有小,“老”是“夕陽”,“小”是“朝陽”。“朝陽”總比“夕陽”更令人關注和憧憬,這是動物繁衍生息的法則,是規律,誰也不能違背。記住,年輕人永遠比老年人忙。

人生,夫妻也好,母女父子也罷,不管是怎樣的水乳交融、心心相繫,每個人都是生命的獨立個體,因此,我們要學會在孤獨的時候给自己安慰,,在寂寞的時候给自己温暖。

老要有老的風骨,老要有老的優雅,正如春華秋實,四季輪迴,各有風采。
暮年是美好生活的開始,是一種從容、恬闊、悠哉遊哉的状態。願我們保持一顆寧静的心,少些期盼、多些寬容,寵辱不驚、去留無礙,微笑向前,善待暮年的自己。

Monday, November 21, 2016

Time to change

Work life balance is always one of my top priorities back in 2007.

I wanted to pursue my desire life styles, do what I enjoy and spend quality moments with my love ones.

However the priority has been deviated along the way when we progress at workplace as well as entering different stages in life.

Because I am passionate about my work,  I do not and have no intention to draw a line between work life and after work life.

And due to this, I have put in more and more efforts and time to my office. 

Looking back, I have spent more than 12 hours to my work for more than 24 months. 

I am a little bit tired now and felt that it is time to adjust for a betterment.

Maybe I shall thanks to the "adversity" that trigger me to reconsider on how I move on from now.

This is a matter that worth to put some serious thought.

Back to basic and change.

Saturday, November 12, 2016

Honeybees hive being burnt due to human selfishness






During one of the evening of last week, my daughter called me with very serious voice, "Dad, there are hundreds of honeybees flying around a tree near our house."
 
I told her and her mom to be calm. Honeybees are just insects where they create no harm but good to human. In 30 minutes later, she called me again, telling me that the honeybees built their hive in 30 minutes.
 
It is amazing. I am glad that my kids are able to witness this natural phenomenon.
 
Two days passed, it was the nightmare of these honeybees. One of the resident raised their concern over the hive. He or she worries that their kids are having risk of being stung.
 
The committee members of the neighborhood instantaneously called the authority (BOMBA) to remove the honeybee hive, without even identify what kind of bee hive that they are referring.
 
A few of the residents including me were protesting the removal of honeybee hive but nothing can be done. Human is just too ego and ignorance. we put ourselves superior than any other kind of life in this world.  
 
None of them care if the honeybees will escape from the hive when the hive is burnt by the flame. Hundred of honeybees life is being taken away with a simple proposal, which is worrying of the safety of the kid, and being approved within seconds without finding facts and concern of these "hundreds" of life.
 
At the same day evening, the big scale murder was executed. Hundred of honeybees were burnt to death in their hive.
 
We, human, being really selfish, ignorance and apathy.
 
Rest in peace, hundred of the honeybees.
 
The next morning, we found a few of the survivors. They lost their hive, and they temporary occupy a corner of my garden as shelter.
 
Human, we are not super power, nor we are superior.
Live in peace with the rest of the God made creatures.
We, human, is just one of the God creation.
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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