Wednesday, February 27, 2013

忙。玩。

好久没在这儿留笔。自去年,一桩接一桩的工作,忙得不可开交。压力是不停得加升,心情自然好不起来。假日连拖带滚的回到办公室,每天做到天昏地暗,感觉好像衰老了十年。

奇怪的是,也不明白,明知会做到这么累,当初坑都没坑一声就接下工作。但一心只想到这个是部门得完成的一宗档案。能力行的话,咬紧牙根,一起挨过去。可,中途发现不是每个人都一样的想法, 自己反而觉得像一个白痴。

所以琐碎就一字不提,不然好话没几句。

但被逼到角落时,也领悟到了,命只有一条,不可能就这样白白浪费掉。

走过来了,也应该豁然坦荡起来。

但再也不了。不要这么作贱自己,别把自己搞得这么累。今年我要出去玩~!









Friday, February 1, 2013

Fairy Tales

I had a conversation once about why fairy tales, still in their most original gory versions, are read to children as bedtime stories. Wouldn't it give them too much sense of violence to young forming minds?

The answer I got, or at least what I remember of it - they give the child, a sense of what was right or wrong about the world at its starkest, the sense of safety at its eventuality, when the threat was eventually removed or if the character reach their fated end, when justice was achieved, when a lesson is learnt after the protagonist completes his or her journey. And that helps the young child to learn about the principles of his world in his formative years.

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Perhaps we should ban the Disney adaptations - too much glossing over the unsavoury details in today's society, that we forget that life is at its truest, is like the fairy tale of yore, violent, unforgiving, and not bright colours and cutesy as what we expect to be.