If that's what they wants
My friend once fowarded a link to a video which is legally downloadable online. Its actually a simple advertisement made by a local petroleum company.
In this ad, it was about a group of old ladies, possibly old time friends, having lunch together, and they were all talking (technically boasting) bout how their son's and daughter are all buys with their professional jobs such as lawyer, surgeon and so on, how he's working overseas and earning 5 digit money.
Now came to this old lady who was just quietly enjoying her food listening to them. When they asked about how her son was, her simple answer was just that he's doing fine, healthy. And she went on to say that he always brings her on vacation. Then came her son, in just a normal car, with his family, and she left going to Cameroon Highlands. The rest stared in awe.
This advertisement baiscally tells all about the community here. At the least, the Chinese (don't get me wrong, I'm a chinese as well). Everyone wants their son to be in high ranking professions, and boast to others, and whats more, the community look up upon these people.
But I sometimes have to wonder, do they actually wants their children to grows up to be someone that's professional and earning big bucks yes, but thats always away? Are they proud to have their children all staying overseas, and their grandchildren could barely reconize them? My point here is that our comunity always wanting money and power, but overlooking the small but important aspect of life that actually makes a life worth living.
You see, many old people these days are proud of their son when they holds high ranking job, works in and international firm and so on. But when they are old and alone, they put the entire blame on their children for leaving them behind, putting them in the old folks home and so on. But they forgot that it was them who brough up their offsping into such a person, who abandons everything for money and power. It was them who sets the mentality on their child to sucess to the maximun in their education, and that they do it all to earn big money, that money is everything. So who's to blame here?
But anyway, this is just a thought of mine. I know that this community would never change, at least not for the better.
And oh, at the end of the advertisement, the message it delivered was that money, power and fame isnt the most important things in life. The love of your family member is the most important thing.
In this ad, it was about a group of old ladies, possibly old time friends, having lunch together, and they were all talking (technically boasting) bout how their son's and daughter are all buys with their professional jobs such as lawyer, surgeon and so on, how he's working overseas and earning 5 digit money.
Now came to this old lady who was just quietly enjoying her food listening to them. When they asked about how her son was, her simple answer was just that he's doing fine, healthy. And she went on to say that he always brings her on vacation. Then came her son, in just a normal car, with his family, and she left going to Cameroon Highlands. The rest stared in awe.
This advertisement baiscally tells all about the community here. At the least, the Chinese (don't get me wrong, I'm a chinese as well). Everyone wants their son to be in high ranking professions, and boast to others, and whats more, the community look up upon these people.
But I sometimes have to wonder, do they actually wants their children to grows up to be someone that's professional and earning big bucks yes, but thats always away? Are they proud to have their children all staying overseas, and their grandchildren could barely reconize them? My point here is that our comunity always wanting money and power, but overlooking the small but important aspect of life that actually makes a life worth living.
You see, many old people these days are proud of their son when they holds high ranking job, works in and international firm and so on. But when they are old and alone, they put the entire blame on their children for leaving them behind, putting them in the old folks home and so on. But they forgot that it was them who brough up their offsping into such a person, who abandons everything for money and power. It was them who sets the mentality on their child to sucess to the maximun in their education, and that they do it all to earn big money, that money is everything. So who's to blame here?
But anyway, this is just a thought of mine. I know that this community would never change, at least not for the better.
And oh, at the end of the advertisement, the message it delivered was that money, power and fame isnt the most important things in life. The love of your family member is the most important thing.
posted by Garry at 11:21 PM
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