Childhood, I'd like a ticket #2
Tuesday, 18. March 2008, 11:05:25
Chapter 4: So sad, indeed!
...A nice chin or a pair of beautiful eyes captures the others' attention. It acts as a guide-flashlight in a dark theater's walkway. When a curtain is raised, when lights are turned off, when actors appear on stage, only then, the adventure of our souls actually begins. And, depending on the fascination of the play, we shall decide to sit till the very end or leave early.
Love is similar. The impression of our looks is truly considerable. But what lies beneath it is even more indispensably considerable...
...Up till now, there are thousands of novels have written about love in a Western style, Eastern style, modern or classical style. But there is none mentions that a man falls in love with a woman because of her cooking skill. Romeo risked his clan's confliction to pursue Juliet certainly not for her fish balls. It is something we can't blame. Because writers, they only write about love affairs. They don't write about marriage. Hence, I believe that if Romeo and Juliet's love story was so beautiful, it was because both of them had already died before getting married...
...Cooking is something you can learn and improve everyday. Of course, in the condition that wives are determined to improve themselves before their husbands fall into other women's kitchens...
Chapter 6: I am Cu Mùi
...All the things the adults educate are correct in theory. All the kids understand it. But there is always an invisible urge makes them do differently in reality.
It is just because, in comparison with adults, kids live in an alternative atmosphere. They live under a different light. There, by their own ways, they approach the world. They don't look at anything under the utilized way. That is the basic difference between kids and adults...
...Kids do not concern function simply because they have already had one invaluable treasure: their imagination.
To adults, pillow is used to comfort their sleep. To the poor Tí Sún, it was a crying doll that she always had to console...
...Indeed, not all of the kids are like that. There are those who prefer to be similar to being different.
Adults certainly praise these kids. Because being similar to each other is a principle that they worship. Being similar means no particularity, no naughtiness, no rebellion. Being similar means discipline. Especially, it means security...
Chapter 9: Anyone knows what time is it?
...While kids do everything they can to hide their disadvantages from adults, adults do the same thing, too.
If we make a comparison, we shall see that kids are clearly better and more clever. It is simply because they are afraid of being punished. Adults hide their disadvantages less skillful isn't because they are more clumsy. It is because they do it regardless of the consequences. Kids aren't unable to punish them. And it seeds in their thoughts a terrible idea in which violating rights is their priviledge. If a kid accidentally farts in the middle of a meal, he/she will be scolded. But if an adult does so, he/she will only laugh it off. Frankly, both of them should be critcized. But if we can forgive someone, a kid is more tolerable...
Chapter 10: And I sank...
... - They say marriage is the grave of love, is it right, daddy?
I think about a happy marriage of Tí Sún and replied:
- Marriage doesn't bury anyone. Only husband and wife buries each other if they want.
- Then, why...
I interrupted my daughter's question:
- Sweetheart, those who have an unhappy marriage are those who think marriage is an ending of love. Actually, it is only a beginning.
Looking at my daughter's bewildered face, I tried to find a simple way to explain:
- Before getting married, we only started imitating how to love. We know not how to do it completely. Loving someone is something we need to learn and try our best for the whole life. Marriage will teach us about love. Of course, there will be those who don't have enough patience to study it. They will be dismissed just like lazy students being dismissed from school.
Her eyes brightened:
- Learning how to love is just like learning how to swim, huh, daddy? If they don't learn, they can still swim in a doggy-style. Only by learning properly, they know how to swim breast-stroke, back-stroke, stroke and butterfly.
I smiled and remembered when I was 8 years old:
- And those who are lazy will sink.
I wasn't lazy but I still sank. (*Note: Cu Mùi is more than 40 years old now)
...Ten years later, I was 28 years old and Tủn was going to get married. Before her wedding day. I told her about my true affection for her years ago.
She was so calm:
- Back then, I really liked you, too.
- Stop fooling me around - I started - If you liked me, why did you go out with Hải Cò all the time?
- It is because I really liked you that I couldn't go out with you.
My neck was getting sweaty:
- Are you serious?
- I'm about to get married, why should I lie to you?...
...Perhaps, women's incomprehensibility is the weapon which God had given to them. Women's strength can not match for men's. And men will dominate them if one day they become easy to understand.
In a word, women is similar to roses. It isn't because roses are throny like people usually say. It is because we all love the beauty of roses even we don't have to spend time to explain why.
"I love roses" That is enough!
"And I sank..." Oh, that is enough, too!
...A nice chin or a pair of beautiful eyes captures the others' attention. It acts as a guide-flashlight in a dark theater's walkway. When a curtain is raised, when lights are turned off, when actors appear on stage, only then, the adventure of our souls actually begins. And, depending on the fascination of the play, we shall decide to sit till the very end or leave early.
Love is similar. The impression of our looks is truly considerable. But what lies beneath it is even more indispensably considerable...
...Up till now, there are thousands of novels have written about love in a Western style, Eastern style, modern or classical style. But there is none mentions that a man falls in love with a woman because of her cooking skill. Romeo risked his clan's confliction to pursue Juliet certainly not for her fish balls. It is something we can't blame. Because writers, they only write about love affairs. They don't write about marriage. Hence, I believe that if Romeo and Juliet's love story was so beautiful, it was because both of them had already died before getting married...
...Cooking is something you can learn and improve everyday. Of course, in the condition that wives are determined to improve themselves before their husbands fall into other women's kitchens...
Chapter 6: I am Cu Mùi
...All the things the adults educate are correct in theory. All the kids understand it. But there is always an invisible urge makes them do differently in reality.
It is just because, in comparison with adults, kids live in an alternative atmosphere. They live under a different light. There, by their own ways, they approach the world. They don't look at anything under the utilized way. That is the basic difference between kids and adults...
...Kids do not concern function simply because they have already had one invaluable treasure: their imagination.
To adults, pillow is used to comfort their sleep. To the poor Tí Sún, it was a crying doll that she always had to console...
...Indeed, not all of the kids are like that. There are those who prefer to be similar to being different.
Adults certainly praise these kids. Because being similar to each other is a principle that they worship. Being similar means no particularity, no naughtiness, no rebellion. Being similar means discipline. Especially, it means security...
Chapter 9: Anyone knows what time is it?
...While kids do everything they can to hide their disadvantages from adults, adults do the same thing, too.
If we make a comparison, we shall see that kids are clearly better and more clever. It is simply because they are afraid of being punished. Adults hide their disadvantages less skillful isn't because they are more clumsy. It is because they do it regardless of the consequences. Kids aren't unable to punish them. And it seeds in their thoughts a terrible idea in which violating rights is their priviledge. If a kid accidentally farts in the middle of a meal, he/she will be scolded. But if an adult does so, he/she will only laugh it off. Frankly, both of them should be critcized. But if we can forgive someone, a kid is more tolerable...
Chapter 10: And I sank...
... - They say marriage is the grave of love, is it right, daddy?
I think about a happy marriage of Tí Sún and replied:
- Marriage doesn't bury anyone. Only husband and wife buries each other if they want.
- Then, why...
I interrupted my daughter's question:
- Sweetheart, those who have an unhappy marriage are those who think marriage is an ending of love. Actually, it is only a beginning.
Looking at my daughter's bewildered face, I tried to find a simple way to explain:
- Before getting married, we only started imitating how to love. We know not how to do it completely. Loving someone is something we need to learn and try our best for the whole life. Marriage will teach us about love. Of course, there will be those who don't have enough patience to study it. They will be dismissed just like lazy students being dismissed from school.
Her eyes brightened:
- Learning how to love is just like learning how to swim, huh, daddy? If they don't learn, they can still swim in a doggy-style. Only by learning properly, they know how to swim breast-stroke, back-stroke, stroke and butterfly.
I smiled and remembered when I was 8 years old:
- And those who are lazy will sink.
I wasn't lazy but I still sank. (*Note: Cu Mùi is more than 40 years old now)
...Ten years later, I was 28 years old and Tủn was going to get married. Before her wedding day. I told her about my true affection for her years ago.
She was so calm:
- Back then, I really liked you, too.
- Stop fooling me around - I started - If you liked me, why did you go out with Hải Cò all the time?
- It is because I really liked you that I couldn't go out with you.
My neck was getting sweaty:
- Are you serious?
- I'm about to get married, why should I lie to you?...
...Perhaps, women's incomprehensibility is the weapon which God had given to them. Women's strength can not match for men's. And men will dominate them if one day they become easy to understand.
In a word, women is similar to roses. It isn't because roses are throny like people usually say. It is because we all love the beauty of roses even we don't have to spend time to explain why.
"I love roses" That is enough!
"And I sank..." Oh, that is enough, too!
