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发表于 2005-10-5 20:51:44
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People nowadays work hard to buy more things. This has made our lives more comfortable but many traditional values and customs have been lost and this is a pity.
What are the most important things in my life and what should I do to make my life to be a good one? The answers to those questions are considered to be the personal life value, or value for short. According to the Chinese traditional values, a smooth and pleasant life with one’s own family always being happy and prosperous is the ultimate goal for every ordinary people. As the ancient Chinese saying goes, “A life without digression and misfortune is the best gift of Heaven”. This value calls for intimacy between the family members, true love between the couples and the sincerity between friends. However, modern people’s hardworking serves as excuse to make those values lost. “I am busy, and I have to work” become a justified cliché to refuse relatives, loved ones and friends. Under this excuse, family get-togethers simply become regular ceremony on holidays, to cancel a date become so easy and unarguable and official occasions become the only place to meet an old friend “accidentally”. Relationship between human beings has never been so distant as today and the traditional values have never been trampled and destroyed so ruthlessly, and so reasonably as today. When we keep comforting ourselves that we work so hard only for the sake of a better life, we have to realize we are going farther and farther away from the better life by breaking the emotional connection with the people around us.
Material enrichment has greatly changed our life. And now there is a trend that new values are going to set up on this basis. But we should never forget that the traditional values are the soul of the whole nation and are what we rely on spiritually to survive in the long history. As long as we lose those values, we can never find where we are in this more and more material society. |
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