Two weeks

Officially, there remains only two weeks before my final seminar, which feels like an alarm hanging above my head. For the first time, I feel like this.
Life turns to be busier and busier, in order to get as much data as possible. But interestingly, busy life brings more energy into work.It is said that most successful people like forcing themselves to face difficulties and fight to solve them, even though the process is painful.In other words, they enjoy the pain. I think that because after solving the problem, we find ourselves growing up and discover more attractive aspects of life.
It is said that 90% of the whole life time is just ordinary, neither pathetic nor amazing. However, I start enjoying tracking my internal growth. As there are always new thoughts coming into my mind every day, I know how I am growing up and how my views of the world are changing. It is not necessary to fight for having ‘amazing’ life. As far as I keep growing up, I know, to myself, I am becoming amazing. That’s enough.
I guess the little hurry inside of me may be because that it is my final seminar. When the end is closer and closer, we always want to be as better as possible so there will be less regret. It doesn’t matter that how other people think about it. It’s about how much I am improved and how satisfied I will be about it.
I think my point today is just that the busy life is really kind of cheering me up and making me more interested in further fighting and discovering more. It’s really nice.
Anyway, to do all we can is already the success, no matter what the results will be. I always tell this to people in my life. For myself, to some extent, I may also be able to say so.
Not horrible, not amazing, just ok. That’s my life. And that’s ok.

Rise of the planet of the apes: Where are we?

I would say Rise of the planet of the apes is my favorite movie of this summer. It doesn’t matter with the fabulous technology to create the apes. I didn’t consider it as a funny movie, either. Whether it will be true that apes or other animals will eventually be as smart as human beings is not the main topic we need to discuss regarding to the movie, and there do be a lot of myths to be well explained in the world. The first and only question raised in my mind by this movie is just a simple one: where are we?

I think I am now learning more and more about medicine and medical research. Medicine, including doctors, medical schools, hospitals and even the whole pharmaceutical industry, is definitely associated with business. People fight for being doctors to be rich and thought to be somewhat prior to others. The whole medical system fights for more money to afford fancy techniques and every practitioner involved. And the researching institutes fight for more grants to be famous and autonomous. Somehow, organs are more important than patients, while tissues or cells are more important than experimental animals. Commercial benefits are everything.

I won’t say it is wrong, because everyone needs to earn the life. But it shouldn’t be the only goal the whole system runs for. On our way to success and richness, instantly we need to stop for a while to look back and weigh the initial purpose for the next step.

So, where are we? Are we still the unquestionable emperor of the whole world? Are we really smarter than ancient people? Are we always sure that all that we did are right under any circumstances?

Not really.

So, it is a good movie to remind us of looking back and examining ourselves objectively. Beside commercial benefits, nature and human history are still teaching us more about ourselves. Being the strongest is not the only thing. Whether we can stay strong as long as we wish may matter more. If this is always certain, then the rise of any planet will never affect us. In that case, we are then the actual leader.

It doesn’t matter whether anyone else is stupid or not. However, it will really hurt when we are told by the truth that how stupid we are and there is no excuse left to deny it.

I like movies, not because of how much fun a movie brings to me. It is because I can learn a different way of thinking, a different way of living, a different way of telling a story, and a different view of everything in this world. Compared to books, movies are simpler. But if it is still found to be a good story, being simpler is actually more difficult, isn’t it?

Aug

To speed up in the physical world while slowing down spiritually is what we should obey to grow up.