Although I hate the author of Tuesdays with Morrie after watching one short video (just ~3 mins) on Youtube (as he is dominating without showing any respect to another author that I truly admires, and I believe the good stuff in that book is due almost solely to Morrie), one sentence in it really plucks the right string: learn how to die, and you learn how to live..
But what is preventing us to put the "HOW"s into practice?? What are the constraints and are there any ways to overcome them without "modifying" the person one is??
After learning something, you will want to try it I suppose..
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When an individual is taught to earn everything he got in a lifetime, that you can't take anything for granted, something's not quite right.. where's the continuity?? Where's the give and take??
Of course I don't mean you can take everything for granted, but there has to be something that you don't have to earn.. e.g, the basic rights to choose the way you live, no matter whether you are capable or incapable.. you have every right to fail and it shouldn't be anyone's business if you had already do your share in "other matter"..
It is this feeling of security that allows one to explore their own meanings.. and I don't understand why it would have to take 50 or 60 years on average to earn a basic right like this.. it shouldn't be a competition to achieve retirement, like it is a game of "the faster the better"..
The fact that we have no such "other matter" to do is the cause of almost all the troubles.. and such "other matter" I suppose, has to do with an ideal government, which is a "clean-and-clear" idea that must be well-defined..
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okay, it isn't my business, so let me just stop here.. the slightest discussions can drive anybody's thought.. thank you very much..
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