I learnt a few good lessons in this trip. In particular:
1) Learning about how people change as they grew older
2) Learning to be human in a socially degenerative society
I didn't have much opportunity to blog in China. Well, thanks to the government,
www.blogger.com is totally blocked for access. Thankfully, you can still reach
www.blogspot.com to view what others have to say on the net.
About people growing old, I realized that people REALLY changes. Not that it's something worth 'banging-all-our-hope-for' (in the most crude sense of the word), but people DO change.
Many quotes 'a leopard will never change its' spots', 'what you see is what you get', while those being true to a certain degree, I did realize that in my family, people really changed.
This year, I noticed a different aura at home while I was having my Chinese New Year Holidays. Mum no longer nags at me nor my siblings. She does her house-work, keeping herself busy throughout the day, but she never complains. Dad is getting more absent-minded, a sign of moving over the hill. Brother responds and takes more initiative at home, a sign of maturity. Young sis gets more rebellious, a sign of teen-hood and adolescent at its prime...
For several moments, I hate to admit.
I was bowled-over... (pardon my use of boombastic word.. am forcing myself to improve my vocab these days.)Yet in all of these, I began to enjoy what I call '
the living the moment life experience'. Not that I have not been living in one, but I don't know if you've ever felt like life moves on too fast, and before we realized, we're at the other end of the journey where we have to start the painful process of growing up again? That feeling crept up gradually inside me and I was caught totally un-aware.
At the junction of the crossroad, I am now caught with responsibilities and decisions which will determine what my future will be. In some sense, I am afraid I will commit an err that I will regret during a mid-life crisis, on the other-hand, a calm re-assuring hand rests upon my feeble heart to assure me that in all things, God works in favor with those who puts His statutes above theirs and lives in His obedience.
(which reminds me... I have already learnt the lesson in making mistakes!)I will share more after bathing on the second significant lesson I got from my trip. Especially during the trip back home (Singapore).
