WHY IT IS SO HARD TO TALK TO EACH OTHER?
Life has brought us far from each other. A mother is no longer telling her bedtime stories to daughter and no father is able to give his advise. ‘Talk’ is not only supposed to be literally; it can be in the form of letter or even e-mail. [ I’m actually talking too right now,aren’t I? ] What happen to our human race? Should we blame education on our own weaknesses, again? What make it so hard for us to talk?
Here goes my first point, family conflict. Frankly speaking, because of our own mistakes, we have lost the most precious thing in this world, the love of a family. Broken family is like virus that spread out and we are acting as if we do not have the insulin for it. The result is, there is no more even a single conversation between the family members. To make it worse, no party make any initiatives to cure this ‘disease’. Once the communication is abandoned, the bond will break and this will lead to a very weak society in the future. We have seen a lot of youth that is lost in their lost land where they cannot find back the light to go back. Everyday we blame the education system whereby the educators do not play their role as the guiders. Have we ever point the blame on us instead of others? As parents, have we have spend enough time to spend and talk with our children? As a sister or brother, have we accompanied our siblings when they need us regardless when they are happy or not? Prevention is better that cure. Hence, let’s hold the love and talk.
Furthermore, the language barrier that we have to encounter when communicate with a person of a different country. Like what we can see in the movie of Thousand Years of a Good Prayer, Mr Shi was having a difficulty whenever he wanted to communicate with people in the USA. To make them understand he used key words to send the message. From his body language too people can understand what is he trying to say. Fortunately, the character has shown a good quality which no matter how old are we, education never left us. He always recorded any vocabulary that is new to him to make him learn the language better. Compared to us, we often making excuses and delaying work that should be done quick. If we have the same attitude, the language barrier is no longer a problem when we are willing to learn other languages.
HOW TO BREAK EMOTIONAL WAR?
I only have one solution which I can think in the moment. It all started with our own attitude and mentality. When the patience is there, we can deal with any emotion that makes us depressed. The problem is we do not have the stance to control our anger towards an annoying matter. We also have to change our mentality in life. Be optimistic even when we are facing the worst difficulty in life because every cloud has silver lining.
