Month: December 2010

  • When a person knows what he is living for, he can endure any kind of hardship.

    一個人知道自己為甚麼而活﹐就可以忍受任何一種生活。

    When a person knows what he is living for, he can endure any kind of hardship.

    What if he is living for comfort?   What if he is living for happiness but he needs to endure frustrations and sadness and heartbreaks and failures when he is not even sure whether happiness can be pursued after all the sufferings?  What is worth 'any kind of hardship?'  It sounds altruistic. 

    What do people endure hardship for besides providing for loved ones?

    What kind of achievements?  What kind of hope?  What abstract dreams?  The greater good?

  • A Beautiful Heart

    Beautiful Girl
    Beautiful Heart
    The two don't always go together
    Neither, necessarily apart

    A beautiful girl
    You might come across every day
    and you might feel an attraction
    We're wired that way

    But in time you know
    what others eventually learn
    It's a beautiful heart
    that's better to earn

    Because beauty only goes so far
    and is skin deep
    But a beautiful heart
    is forever to keep

    And long after beauty has faded
    she'll likely remain jaded
    Vanity in its place remains
    seeking approval and gains

    But a beautiful heart
    grows in its grace
    and gracefulness is its own beauty
    and puts a smile on your face

    When you see the eyes
    and you look deep inside
    you can see many things
    that some may hide

    A beautiful heart
    is so hard to find
    Treasure above priceless art
    Inspire me to be kind

    One special girl
    will remind you of both
    Beauty and a beautiful heart
    and you'll gravitate to her from the start

    She'll play on your soul
    and she'll stay gentle on your mind
    and you find yourself dreaming
    'I wish somehow she was mine'

    But of the two if you could so choose
    a bet on which you can never lose
    Choose the beautiful heart
    Because that heart will melt away your blues

    A beautiful heart will increase your joy
    and increase your hope
    and make you feel like a man
    More than just a toy

    If you find a girl with a beautiful heart
    Give her love from the very start
    Treat her kind and with dignity and care
    and for you, she'll always be there

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    A person's disposition and personality are pre-determined genetically.  I remember a lot of preferences and thinking, I already have when I was 5 or 6.  That's why people say, parents know their children best.  The things that you can change a person after birth, is their thinking and what they are used to.  I look at people in Ottawa, they have been educated in a certain way that most people are nice and considerate, fair.. That is achieved by shaping their thinking, and their environment.  To me, thinking including core beliefs, are affected by external factors.