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Lone - My Life and Thoughts - March 2008

Not Fictioned!

March 26th 2008 15:45

I cried much today, cried out of anger, out of rage, out of awe, out of admiration and out of sympathy. I was reading many short biographies account of great men and women depicted in a modern-packed book of chinese classic. It was an honor for me being able to witness their great honorable virtues though indirectly through words. To know that such benevolent virtuous person really did exist in history, not just in mere absurd human fantasy is one thing that makes reading a non-fiction something very valuable for me than reading fiction.

The story revolve in eras of kingdom and emperors reigning China. Through it, I found many people like me, who would put up fight against injustice, speak out what is true and stand on their right principles, even when it cost it their life, and in fact, many real-life person depicted in that book had really in fact lost their life from doing so. I was relieved to realize that i am not alone, as if i was no longer blind believing that almost none would live out life like that. I was tremendously proud of them.

One was story of HuaTong, a legendary master physician during the three kingdom era around 200 CE who fearlessly refused to be personal physician of CaoCao, a ruthless ruler, for HuaTong wanted his skill to be available to a great mass of people who need it than just for a person, no matter how powerful the person may be, especially for such person like CaoCao. Despite of being advised by his friends not to go against CaoCao, HuaTong kept sticking with his principles that the ruthless CaoCao ordered him executed. Other story about the legendary Guan Yu who until the end of his life remained faithful to his sworn brothers and loyal to his country despite of any temptations and challenges. And many many many more accounts of historical figures that one might not be able to grasp how touching and great their lives is without reading their biographies by one own.

They lived honorable life, honored and admired by hundreds of generations after them, and died honorably despite of the many tragic, ignorance, folly and unjust of others that cause their death. I saw pretty much same pattern of injustice taking its form in other ways, but as i kept moving from one life to another's life, i began to see the perfection in their virtuous benevolent life yet unjust death. I could then agreed that indeed they had served humanity and people much more by living such grand virtuous life yet dying in unjust way. Their life-death serve a meaningful purpose as signpost, as signals for all the humanity and all the generations to come to learn and gain wisdom from it, so that history doesn't have to repeat itself, particularly in this case as important lessons for leaders not to just turn deaf ears on advices of the wise ones, not to be too believing on false accusation, etc. If nobody live/died like that, where can we get such non-fictioned meaningful and inspiring account in our historical accounts? Somebody have to live-die that way to leave signpost marks on our history, and it's up to us to make use and learn from it or not, let their unjust and tragic death be in vain or be meaningful.So this is how i see all their tragic deaths fits in. Not only they live in honor, they also die in honor, and it serve honorable purpose for whole humanity to learn from it.

Without their life-death, i might not have the privilege to be so motivated to live out such life and to know that such virtues were not unachievable or lies far beyond our reach. I am really grateful of their life-death serving as real non-fictional motivational role models for many people and many generations, including me. The accounts were really a treasure to me, because they were all real life people who really ever walked on this earth, non-fictioned!

PS: (I will be posting a link to that particular book i mention here in this post. Just wait till i get the copies scanned into PDF then i'll put the link right on this PS note. So come back and check often!)

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