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Sunday, July 1 ( The Strangers @ 19:59:00 ) Modernisation is what that had changed our childhood so much so that it is almost completely different than our fore fathers' and even our parents'. The generation Y today is experiencing even a larger gap in this difference. In the past, our parents' idea of fun was out of door, where they would explore the lush forests at the back of their house, take a swim in the river nearby with sparkling, cool and clear water or even climb fruit trees and stealing their neighbour's fruits just for the fun of it. This can hardly be imagined these days. I grew up in a wooden shack and then moved to a small 2-room flat. Most of the time, I was confined in a small 4-walled room with my toys and tricycles. Watching Hindi dramas with mom at 4pm after my nap and dad coming back for tea time would brought back jellies of various types and even cheddar cheese (I used to love eating cheese like that. Maybe that explain for my huge physique? =p). Even though we were living in poverty then, i remember that mom and dad would not give me anything lacking. I had had many toys, dolls and plastic cooking sets. I had at least one fish per day. I had their care and they stay up the whole night to look after me when I had had high fever one night. These prescious moments are vividly recorded in my mind and I doubted if I would ever forget. This is the moments that I missed very much. Nowadays, kids have commitment-with tuition classes, school, piano lessons, drawing class, dance class and ecetera. The games that they play are those of electronic types, involving joysticks, keyboard and a screen. they sit in their room the whole day trying to control a small figure in the screen, and visited jungles, space or a mountain-all are just image in the screen. BUT, with the passing of time, the idea of walking in real forests like our parents once used to do seems quite ridiculous when there is no forest nearby and with the high crime rate especially kidnapping and murder, parents would be insane if they let their little ones roam about as they wish. Thus, in the process of protecting them, they are also depriving them of childhood pleasure and experience. However, they are not to be blame. Modernisation is to be blame. But without modernisation, could we survive? Giving up your television-Yes, missing that 4 o'clock soap opera, not owning an MP3 player, no computer-no blogging, friendster, chatting, no handphones-no smsing or calling up friends to gossip or go out for a "yumcha" session and no air-conds. For girls, no rebonding, no perming, no nail arts and no make-up. I know-OMG! This is not the only thing that modernisation had brought changes to. It seems that we now know less people. (My context of know is not only knowing the name, but truly building a friendship and knowing that person very well). Our method of communicating and making new friends is trough the ever-popular friendster, msn messengers, ICQ(not so popular anymore) and emails. Chatting with strangers that we had yet to meet up with hardly fulfil that "true friends" criteria. I mean how many of this cyber friendships actually last for say up to even one year? Many a time, they are just "people" that just come and go in our life. And we quickly forget about them and make new ones. Nothing can compare to our real-life friends that we see almost everyday. But, there is a saying that it is diffuclt to love something or someone that we know very well of. This is very true in the sense that after a period of time, we begin to lost that "first good impression" and started to see their real behaviour rearing its' ugly heads. this is the time that we doubt and many a time would be surprise to find that they are not as 'perfect" as we think. From there, we will start to be hypocrite and find many unpleasant things about the other party, making it hard to love them as much as before. This, my friend could be overcome. We had always wanted the world to change, but have we ever think of changing ourselves first? Changing the perspective when we look at certain things in life? We should slow down a bit and take a good look around us in evryday life, only then would we see the blessings of life and those little pleasures and sense of fulfilment all around us. Maybe, just maybe, if you take a good look, taking a split second more to glimpse at those around us, we could know more and experience more, instead of forever walking with our heads down, looking at our shoes. Pick up pace when necessary and slow down at the right time. Get to know more people and extend your circle of friends. smile at that stranger that is crossing from the opposite side of the road and feel the bliss of those 2 elderly couple lovingly enjoying thier afternoon tea at the pavement, outside the cafe'. for when you slow down, everything seems to be more beautiful, because you take the time to appreciate and feel it. =) Labels: Thoughts and Life 0 comments |
