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    Perfection Reconsidered - [闲日碎语]

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    SagaPerfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
    - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

    Alas! What a resounding and reminding remark! My former notion of perfection, which I have been unremittingly in pursuit of, now meets its cul-de-sac, and an overthrow of this definition is looming and approaching.

    I cannot remember if this remark is from his Le Petit Prince, but this single sentence strikes me as much as, or far more profoundly than, that whole tiny book of his. We are constantly struggling for the eternal reality and beauty of this world, and this struggle seems endless and hopeless. Human beings, with their finite life and fortune, sigh at the intangible future and the glooming destiny. There are always things to add, for we are always insatiable with our hearts or with our minds; therefore there is always impossibility to achieve the utopianized perfection. I, in my microcosmic psyche, echo this miserable cognition.

    Here comes this quote to my rescue. Putting emphasis on the present in stead of the future, it allows for retrospection and examination, not the futile anticipation. This shift of notion can be properly applied to our struggle for perfection. There are things we can do, and others we cannot. For those we can, we do them well, well to the extent beyond reproach. For those we cannot, we stand aloof and show our respect to those who can do them, with contentment in our heart.

    Optimistic as is this remark, it provides us with a veritable approach towards perfection, which everyone desires but few dare to have a try.


    Giant Woo
    2007-12-12


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  • it reminds me of a sentence which sounds like --the past is static, nothing we do can change it; the future is dynamic, everthing we do will change it.
    Giant回复冰觊零说：
    be optimistic about the future, then
    2007-12-15 18:01:13
    冰觊零 | 发表于2007-12-15 14:09:09 [回复]
  • touche!
    so wags the world!
    experience is the key word.
    playing different roles consciously makes us happy, vice versa. no one wanna to be a marionette controlled by god.
    if it comes to that, maybe we still play the role of players in god's eye.life is thespian after all,isn't it?
    so Jiangwen said:" i am pessimistic to optimistic.
    as for the year of rat, we are in the same age,aren't we?do you have any plan for it?
    ps:you have several spelling mistakes.
    Giant回复Sanfer说：
    the transformation of life renders me gradually from optimistic to pessimistic, too. i have no plan for anything. as for spelling mistakes, that's the reason as well as the result of my using Word to write english essays-my mistakes can be eliminated to the minimum
    2007-12-15 18:00:26
    Sanfer | 发表于2007-12-14 20:42:56 [回复]
  • 还有啊，这幅图跟你的内容有关系咩？这是冰河哥哥么？
    Giant回复猫猫追尾巴说：
    没有关系，是冰河叔叔（资料显示他是生于1958？）
    2007-12-14 16:46:12
    猫猫追尾巴 | 发表于2007-12-14 02:03:40 [回复]
  • "There are things we can do, and others we cannot. "
    There is a similar saying:"Change what you can change and accept what you can't change." But the most difficult is to know the difference. People are not as smart as they think they are.
    Giant回复猫猫追尾巴说：
    that very saying came to my relief, or to act as a relief, on some critical moment of my life in oct. we are blind, we don't know the difference of "cans" and "cannots". therefore we are moths darting for the flames.
    2007-12-14 16:44:48
    猫猫追尾巴 | 发表于2007-12-14 02:02:32 [回复]
  • Probably I have dedicated myself to her in affection and photography in career too wholehearted to ignore my parents and my major. After graduation, however, I didn’t forsake car design like Lu Xun abandoned Zhu An. Out of various reasons I came back to my career which was distributed to me four years ago like a child bride. Gradually I found the unique charm belong to engineering such as each female has particular glamour. It struck me that if only one possess of adequate talent and tries hard, one can engage in any vocation, just as if one man and one woman would go together if they exchange their hearts sincerely. Hereby I became caritative. Out of moral self-restraint, I put interests in occupation rather than women. I am not worried about being jack of all trades, because I have no desire for fame, wealth, women, and similar things which are tantalizing millions of people. I learnt something, which is either knowledge or skill, not for becoming an expert who is capable of being a master, attracting piles of adorer especially inchoate girls. It is the matter itself that tempts me to do something, as Kant craved for moral principle in the heart and stars in the heaven. Instead of being recognized, being useful, I often wish I could hide somewhere beyond view of earthling. Penniless and useless sometimes become my target. I even slander myself as a rogue or idiot, just as the French lieutenant’s woman pictured herself filthy, to seek for calmness at the bottom of my heart. Maybe you cannot catch the drift of that, but you have no necessity to bother with it because I’m not a guy intruding my views upon others. In addition, you can figure out I’m a little self-centered which means wincing to listen to the inner sound from heart for self-protection just when I encounter some vicious gossip or aggressive threaten which overflow in the society.
    Giant回复Sanfer说：
    how can the drift of being be ever adequately caught? the unique charm charms us simply because it's unique, and what we are living for in this world is simply uniqueness in and of ourselves and in and of others. at first sight we may say we love something or someone, and we don's like something or someone else, but gradually we may find that we have been deceived by ourselves. fondness can grow out of naught and as well decline and rot from its pinacle. we need to catch every unique charm of everything to drive away the greediness and uncontentment of human desires to appreciate everything and everyone god bestows upon us. cherish every experience in your life and every person you encounter, which all compose the whole chords of the music of life. when i come to examine what i am tryiny to get, i suppose i am in accord with you, for at the essence i am learning it simply because i like it. long long ago there had been some ingriedients of vanity in those pursuits, but the metamophisis takes control of me and i care about few things. i seemingly find a utopia to reside myself permanently. but there are always some cruel things happening now and then, which give me heavy blows again and again. and thinking, endless thinking, contributes to my perplexity. i want no fame, no wealth, no women just for the sake of being recognized. i am not a party guy but strangely i feel lonely in my solitude and i crave for some company or companion to share my hapiness and sorrows. therefore i always feel a contrary urgency to unhide myself from where the earthling cannot see. i need those material and profane support to provide grounds for my higher pursuit, if there is any. a common and tranquil life is my ultimate goal, and every day i shall smile as well as weep. i have a feeling that i have gained many years of age in such short period of time before my third encounter with the year of rat. "the world is a stage, men and women are mere players." where this play leads to, we don't know. we just play.
    2007-12-14 16:40:53
    Sanfer | 发表于2007-12-13 22:01:44 [回复]
  • it's wierd the message cannot reach you, so i leave in my blogbus,as a comment .
    Giant回复Sanfer说：
    我在你墓地上留下的话语也不知如何被一次次地禁止，只有借此地回复了。

    however, i prefer my version of understanding. i used to strive for diversification and intended for something like versatility but found the world too vast to comprehend completed and then turned to focus on specialism, as you phrased it, only to save me from being jack of all trades and master of none. i am not self-centered, and i surely absorb others' attitudes to enrich myself. i embrace both while my temporary stress is on specialism.
    2007-12-13 10:34:59
    Sanfer | 发表于2007-12-12 21:21:37 [回复]
  • the remark you quoted is pretty resounding, however i found something maybe wrong in your
    understanding.
    Giant回复Sanfer说：
    quite posible, this understanding is definitely my remodified version
    2007-12-13 10:34:15
    Sanfer | 发表于2007-12-12 21:09:09 [回复]