1st quote has nothing to do with the rest
"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit by a canal and drink beer all day."
"Life is filled with people and their hundred different faces; but you can only be one type of person. Not only must you choose to be one type of person, you must at the same time refuse to be many other types, even though amongst those types there are abundant interesting and attractive traits. I can't be a martyr and be long-living at the same time; can't be a revolutionist and a hermit at the same time; can't be a fairy and a cow-head-horse-face at the same time [JY: I don't really get this one]; can't sacrifice myself to the country and to my wife at the same time...
I'm facing two aspects: the first is to choose what to do, and the second is to refuse what not to do. After this, I need to go one step further: to look forward with hope and vision for what I've chosen to do, and to cut out back-thinking and pondering for what I've refused to do. If you admit that you must make choices in life and that life is short, then you'll learn to admit that you shan't use up more life to show regret and perplexity for those that have fallen short of your chosen way of life. Life is so short that the whole of it isn't enough to deal with the chosen way or to be the one chosen type of person. If you want to cut out a part of life for other considerations - regardless of them being in the past, present or future, you are wasting life and it'll affect the role you've chosen to play."
-- Li Ao, "Beijing Fayuan Temple"
I'm one who's deeply and sentimentally impressed by TV dramas. I know this may sound strange for a person who has watched around 5 min of TV each week for these few months. Dramas perfect the stereotype of people. Good and bad qualities are magnified. It's because they're magnified that they can't be compressed onto one person. It's like each...er.. pokemon(?) has his special power. Viewers will say, "Oh I really like this one! And this one too!" and feel like cleaning out the store. But you can't buy special powers, let alone character traits with money, so often get troubled with the multiple roles that can be played in life. That's how a dramatic personality develops.
What follows dramatic hyper-activity is a feeling of emptiness. The actors and audience have all left. The stage is empty with yourself now. And you aren't even a real actor. And guilt. Dramas in real life are either contrived or, if inevitabe, are upheavals and those who've been through them would find it better to do without them, to avoid making out a clown instead of a queen or the emotional spams that reduce functionality and productivity. Or to avoid being selfish. Who'd want to force an audience? You can't even cheat or coax anyone to watch you cuz that's the ultimate difference between the stage of life and the stage in the Esplanade.
But still, addiction for drama is real.
"Life is filled with people and their hundred different faces; but you can only be one type of person. Not only must you choose to be one type of person, you must at the same time refuse to be many other types, even though amongst those types there are abundant interesting and attractive traits. I can't be a martyr and be long-living at the same time; can't be a revolutionist and a hermit at the same time; can't be a fairy and a cow-head-horse-face at the same time [JY: I don't really get this one]; can't sacrifice myself to the country and to my wife at the same time...
I'm facing two aspects: the first is to choose what to do, and the second is to refuse what not to do. After this, I need to go one step further: to look forward with hope and vision for what I've chosen to do, and to cut out back-thinking and pondering for what I've refused to do. If you admit that you must make choices in life and that life is short, then you'll learn to admit that you shan't use up more life to show regret and perplexity for those that have fallen short of your chosen way of life. Life is so short that the whole of it isn't enough to deal with the chosen way or to be the one chosen type of person. If you want to cut out a part of life for other considerations - regardless of them being in the past, present or future, you are wasting life and it'll affect the role you've chosen to play."
-- Li Ao, "Beijing Fayuan Temple"
I'm one who's deeply and sentimentally impressed by TV dramas. I know this may sound strange for a person who has watched around 5 min of TV each week for these few months. Dramas perfect the stereotype of people. Good and bad qualities are magnified. It's because they're magnified that they can't be compressed onto one person. It's like each...er.. pokemon(?) has his special power. Viewers will say, "Oh I really like this one! And this one too!" and feel like cleaning out the store. But you can't buy special powers, let alone character traits with money, so often get troubled with the multiple roles that can be played in life. That's how a dramatic personality develops.
What follows dramatic hyper-activity is a feeling of emptiness. The actors and audience have all left. The stage is empty with yourself now. And you aren't even a real actor. And guilt. Dramas in real life are either contrived or, if inevitabe, are upheavals and those who've been through them would find it better to do without them, to avoid making out a clown instead of a queen or the emotional spams that reduce functionality and productivity. Or to avoid being selfish. Who'd want to force an audience? You can't even cheat or coax anyone to watch you cuz that's the ultimate difference between the stage of life and the stage in the Esplanade.
But still, addiction for drama is real.
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