A time to remember
I just watched a youtube Petronas Chinese New Year a while ago. Well it was quite touching though to see a different commercial about unity and about life. How people longed to be accepted despite the feeling of not being accepted.
I've heard a lot of time by different older people telling their children to be a successful when they grow up. Some even go to the extent to make their children go for extra classes during their childhood life so that they can be successful in the future. Their motto perhaps are Suffer now for the sake of easier life in future. To be honest I do agree with them to some extent. I mean we need to have a goal for our life. To try our best to achieve it. As we grow older, our life became tougher.
But despite of that I guess we need to learn to live up our life in term of humility. A lot of time as a parent (I am not a parent yet but I do see a lot of parent did that), they tend to nurture their children to grow strong, grow in more maturity, and the main thing are grow independently. Guess what? All that leads them to be ambitious. Perhaps too ambitious that they gave up their life for their career and their dreams.
I always wondered why parents like to push their children to strive hard because at the end of the day, they will longed for the return of their children. Worst still, their own nurtured child actually sent them to nursery home to live up their final life there. I mean what is the point of making yourself suffer for the sake of your own children. I know that is a parent's love for their children but I do believe that besides providing for the children the need to succeed, there is also a need to provide the children to be a Christ-like children. One of the way is do not push our children into ambitious life that we want them to have. Let God deal with them in that manner, not us. Because of how we deal with our children, a lot of them actually sent their own parent to nursery homes. Is that a necessary? Let not our own ambitious unachievable dreams became our children's dream. I do believe that children should have their own dreams.
Below here are one touching commercial done by Petronas for this year's Chinese New Year reminder. Enjoy the commercial.. =) God bless and Happy Chinese New Year to all the Chinese out there who are celebrating.