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Today I got a long msg from a stranger who’s struggling with his life, his purpose & direction💔 He had dreams & started working on them, but got caught in reality & stopped believing. Now he doesn’t see how to continue life. He is scared to be too old to fail. He asked me “What shall I do? How do I find a path worth living? How do you do it?” ⁉️
I was overwhelmed by this & I thought “How am I gonna reply without writing a book”🙈
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So anyway here is what I think...
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I believe that in everyone there‘s a “spark” that always waits to be turned on. During hard times I also can’t see goals that are worth pursuing or even attainable, because my self-confidence gets buried in doubt & fear 😣
Thats when I typically forget about my “spark”, as if my passion for life is dead. But the thing is, you gotta KEEP ON MOVING! by moving I simply mean finding out what you could do NOW and then act upon it. For me it becomes easier when I move - no matter how SLOW or in what DIRECTION... even if it’s a step back😬👌🏽
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Because every time I force myself to move, at some point the feeling of that SPARK DOES COME BACK⚡️ Maybe cuz I got an insight, cuz my frustration turns to anger&productivity, cuz I realize that I DO have power over my actions, that I AM RESPONSIBLE & CAPABLE of directing my life.
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Compared to dwelling on feeling STUCK, MOVEMENT is a reminder that every path is made of a MILLION baby steps. You gotta continue, even when you feel frustrated.
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We’re ALL IN OUR OWN LANE, there’s no “too old” to work on yourself. I think in life we’ll not always feel happy, because CHANGE is constant & every time something goes down, life sucks! But I am learning now to recreate my happiness often.
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We OWE it to ourselves to be HAPPY! The “purpose of life” for me is simply LIVING it - so don’t overthink this, just get out there! You’ll look back&laugh, maybe cuz things were glorious, or they were a “glorious DISASTER”😉🤟🏽
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You are born to shine. EACH one of us has a SPARK. And believe me, every time you do find that spark within it will feel like it just COULDN’T WAIT for you to LIGHT IT UP and turn it into a whole damn FIRE!!!💥🔥

感激Selina Kinyee Chau翻譯我的散文作品，讓香港及台灣以外的朋友都能看得明白，從中文走向英語，是我作品的大突破，感謝妳一字一句的用心翻譯：）

《WhatsApp and its USD0.99》
by Roy Kwong Translated by Selina Kinyee Chau

The WhatsApp software developer has informed its users to the app to be payable, triggering a fight between iPhone users and android users because iPhone users only pay USD0.99 once to enjoy life-long service but android users need to pay the same price every year.

Android users complain, “Why iPhone users only need to pay once but we need to pay every year?” iPhone users retort, “You didn’t say anything when we were being charged at the beginning. And now you are complaining.” So the two parties are stuck at whether the charge is unfair to Android users.

After the Two Ticks and Last seen on (Please refer to the previous article of the same writer), the WhatsApp started a fight again because of this USD0.99 issue. From between lovers to friends, now it has even extended to the whole user group of the two giant software developers. It should be named the Most Evil App of the Century.

The inconsistency of charging is of course WhatsApp’s fault. However, for those who can afford a smart phone that cost thousands dollars will be able to afford USD0.99 which is only the price of a can of coke, won’t they?

Some student users may complain, “I don’t have a credit card, I’m not able to pay at the App Store, WhatsApp are not considerate of us.” It is reasonable for users under 18 to complain if they don’t have a credit card. But if the charge is a disaster of WhatsApp, isn’t it just time for people to show their kindness? Friends who have a credit card can rescue others at this time, “I have a credit card. Let me pay it for you.”

Friends without a credit card will appreciate what you have done for them, although it is WhatsApp’s fault of the forbiddance of sending messages before the expiry date, reactivating the function for your friends by buying them a can of coke is meaningful, isn’t it? The USD0.99 of WhatsApp has created a chance to show your care to your friends, how nice as a social networking app!

Recall those days when we were still texting, it was actually not financial friendly at all. For the sake of keeping in touch with our friends, we were compelled to use the same service provider as theirs even its service was the worst in the world and we had to survived three times every day from losing connection just because to keep the text messages free of charge.

Still, the Two Ticks and Last seen on functions have created a lot of problem. But the invention of WhatsApp allows us to send messages for free, save us from paying for every text messages. It deserves to be granted a credit. And the simplified process by just clicking a few buttons to send pictures, videos and audios when we could only do so via email in the past. What’s more, WhatsApp had actually stated in the Terms and Conditions that charge may be applied after the first year.

So there have been so many complaints about WhatsApp being unfairness and has been given the name “a broken app” when it announced to charge? No one ever said something like that before the charging. After the charge applied, negative comments has swept over the Internet. Some suggested to use another communication app, Line, which is free of charge, and WhatsApp has become the public enemy. Despite the inconsistent charge, what’s wrong for WhatsApp to charge for using the app?

Have we become too comfortable enjoying free lunch without notice?

I still remember how hard I tried to save to buy a CD home and listened to it again and again when I was a kid. I had never been tired of it because it wasn’t easy. When there was a movie I liked, I saved hard to go to the cinema for it. If I didn’t have enough money, I bought the VCD when it was released. But VCDs were only available for movies not for TV shows. I had to start sitting in front of the TV before the show I liked started so that I wouldn’t miss any parts. And recorders became my good friend too. I really cherished the only-180-minute memory of every tape.

After I grew up, thanks to the advanced technology becomes able to store everything, the TV, computer, CD player, VCD player, game station and recorders, into ONE smart phone, only without the air conditioner. Want to listen to a song? Go to Youtube; want a movie? PPS, internet TV! A TV show? There are also apps you can watch live TV or play back. Want some games? From Angry Bird to Candy Crush, there are thousands of choices waiting for you.

However, The advance of technology has devalue our attitude towards making efforts. Because everything has become easy to get nowadays.

Have you noticed the songs nowadays are not as good as those in the past? That could be the problem of quality itself but more likely, it is because we have too many options. Now we just need to click a few buttons, thousands of search results will come out and we can listen to them right after. We are spoiled to be greedy unconditionally. We didn’t realize how long we hadn’t paid for a CD until the news of HMV’s bankruptcy spread out.

In the past we had to sit still and paid 100% attention to the movie to enjoy it, now we can just watch it from a few-inch-wide screen on a train. But the price is we keep being interrupted by the surrounding noise and people. When the character is saying something moving, we would just realize we’ve missed the stop and have to rush to get off. It may be free to watch a movie like this but I prefer paying to buy a ticket to go to the cinema.

We don’t need to worry about missing the best part of a TV show because our friends always share them on Facebook. We don’t need to watch every scene but you know what is going on in every story. But why is there still something missing? It turns out that we only keep the concentrated part of everything while the every well panned detail has been wasted. We don’t spend time building a connection with the characters in the story. However, if we don’t even spend time watching the the TV show by ourself, how can we feel the same way as the characters do, like we did in the past?

You don’t feel the pain losing something if you have never made any effort. It is just like we keep those old comics that we spent all our pocket money on even they are old and worn , but we are able to uninstall an app on our phone without a thought. Well, just take a couple seconds to download and we will own it again anytime.

While we are expecting making no effort, we are also destroying creativity. Creators lack of motivation. Creativity is worth nothing nowadays. People will search for replacement when one creativity starts to charge. This is not just about the USD0.99 of WhatsApp, it’s about our value on Give and Take.

Technology has changed our life, but we should never let it change our values.

We avoid Giving. But giving is vital for us to learn to cherish. Sometimes we get back more by giving than not giving, not just about money but also about love. Think about it, if we get what we want easily without paying any effort, comparing with that you devote yourself to a relationship while the other devotes to the relationship as much as you. Then none of you will give up on the relationship easily.

If you think WhatsApp is good, it deserves the USD0.99. Although I am still annoyed by the evil functions such as the Two Ticks and Last Seen on. WeChat is free but you have to pay your liberty of speech for it. One user once tried to send the name of Southern Weekly in Chinese, the system reminded him that “The message has involved sensitive words, please try again after making modification.” What’s wrong with the name of Southern Weekly? The even more ridiculous thing is, while I am writing this article, I get the news that WeChat now has tightened up the regulation that users have to use their real name, phone number when posting on the public forum and are even required to upload the photo of them with their ID card, like you have committed some serious crime.

To avoid paying USD0.99, you need to escape to somewhere that and be monitored. One day if you really encounter some sensitive issue, you will realize not paying actually pays more than paying. I believe most of readers are willing to pay for this USD0.99. We hope WhatsApp will open up more channels for payments.

Don’t let the wheels of Time make us forget the value of giving.


Writer for Yam Taiwan, Roy Kwong
http://goo.gl/aQD8B

【英文趣事】
【Yes, It’s Possible to Get ‘Let It Go’ Out of Your Head】

看過"Frozen冰雪奇緣"的人相信都對其中中毒性非常強的"Let It Go"這首歌印象深刻吧!但是也有些人會覺得聽這首歌聽到快受不了!到底所謂"中毒性的歌曲"英文要怎麼去敘述呢?又是什麼原因造成我們在腦海中揮之不去它們的旋律呢?

If you’re like half the people on the globe, the song “Let It Go” has been been playing on an endless loop in your head since you either saw Frozen, heard Idina Menzel sing the film’s most infectious song on the Academy Awards, walked into any public space that has a radio on, or—in the most extreme cases—have children under 10. The authorized Disney version on YouTube has been streamed more than 166 million times. It’s been sung by TV traffic reporters and remixed as a club anthem.
中文翻譯對照
你是否和大多數人一樣在腦海中不斷重複播送"Let It Go"這首歌?也許是因為你看過電影冰雪奇緣，或是聽了伊蒂娜.曼滋在奧斯卡獎頒獎典禮上演唱這首感染力十足的歌，也有可能你曾經在公共場合聽到廣播不斷播送這首歌，或者更有可能的是你家有10歲以下的小朋友。迪士尼官方授權的"Let It Go"MV已在YouTube上有超過一億六千六百萬的點閱率。這首歌更夯到連電視台上的交通播報員也唱過，甚至還出了混音版本。


The use of the word “infectious” is more than a metaphor in the case of a song like this, because the exponential way it spreads indeed resembles nothing so much as a pandemic. Think a flu can get passed around easily in a crowded elevator or movie theater? What about a song trickling from the Muzak or blasting from the screen? You can even pick it up person to person, on the street, passing someone who’s humming the blasted thing—the musical equivalent of an uncovered sneeze.
中文翻譯對照
用"中毒性十足"來形容這首歌並不會太誇張，因為根據各種指數顯示，這首歌的感染效果無庸置疑就像是傳染病。想想看，流感可以在擁擠的電梯中和電影院中輕易傳布；這首歌不論是在日常生活的背景音樂中悄悄進入你的耳朵裡，或是在大螢幕上震撼你的聽覺，它的效果都和流感沒有兩樣。你甚至可以不費吹灰之力就學會這首歌，在街上，你可能會聽見某個與你擦肩而過的人正在哼著這如同詛咒般的旋律，這樣的旋律感染力相等於打噴嚏完全沒用手遮擋一般。

* 完整文章出處:
http://time.com/45440/let-it-go-stuck-in-head/

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