【追梦。Dream Chasing】追梦。Dream Chasing

在电影Up in the Air里有个片段是这样的，男主角提出以下几个言论词：
- 小孩都喜欢运动员是因为他们追求梦想。
- 他们首次是给你多少钱让你放弃梦想？
- 你几时要停下来，回去做你喜欢做的事？

In movie "Up in the Air", there is a scene where the main actor provide these questions/statements about dream:
- Kids love athletes because they follow their dreams.
- How much did they first pay to give up your dream?
- When you are going to stop and comes back to do what makes you happy?

是的，想想吧，当初初薪为什么那么重要到自己放弃了梦想？是为了五斗米吗？那为何当五斗米不再是顾虑了，自己没选择追梦呢？是社会压力吗？是社会对成功的定义吗？是自己跌入舒适区了？

如果你的梦想再次启动，就踏出第一步追梦去吧。别等了。:)

Give it a thought on why the startup pay was much more important that your dream was given up. Was it because you need to earn for a living? Then why was it not a choice for you to continue to pursue your dream when you had had sufficient earning for living? Was it the society pressure on what you should do? Was it society definition of what a success is? Was it that you had fell into the comfort zone?

If your dream is awake now, let's take the first step to go after your dream. Let's not wait. :)

【思考。Think】为梦想折腰?

俗语说:"为五斗米而折腰"，那么为什么不能为梦想而折腰?
Ancient saying that we bow for living,  why can't we bow for dream?

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在脸书po了这句，朋友们都有不同的相应。有些搞笑的，有矫正性的，有暗示性的，有严肃回答的，有争论性的。

搞笑的比如有“梦想就要搏命了”，“当然可以，起码还要有肉”。哈哈。

矫正性的如“ 成语是‘不为五斗米折腰’ ”。也是哦，哈哈。

暗示性的如“梦想就只好在梦里了。何必弯腰呢？”。是不是暗示梦想不值得追求？

严肃回答的如“为梦而活，不枉此生！很多人在临终前才来后悔。。”，如“这是你自己的选择，容易+后悔vs挑战+满足”。

争论性的有如以下的对话：
“因为梦想不能当饭吃”
我：“为什么你那么确定？”
“原因很简单，饿着肚子的时候梦想重要还是五斗米重要？”
我：“那为什么不能为了五斗米而折腰的同时也为梦想而折腰？”
“可以是可以的。只是不要折断了腰就好。”他是在开完笑吧，哈哈。
第三人进来了，“就选个梦想是可以为自己至少赚到五斗米吧。”
我：“举手举脚赞同。”终于有人明白我的意思。:)
“农夫还是厨师？”
第三人：“如果是你的梦想，为何不能？”
“这两个都是比较踏实间接近五斗米。”

很有趣的回复。：）

Posted this in facebook and get different response from friends. There were making fun ones, corrective ones, hinting ones, seriously answer ones, debating ones.

Making fun ones, "For dreams, it is to put full force", "Yea, you can, but at least you must have some meat". Haha.

Corrective ones, "Hello, the idiom is 'don't bow for living' ". Oh ya, that's true, haha. Oppsss...

Hinting ones, "Dreams should be just in dream only, why want to bow?". Does this question hinting that dream is not meant to go after?

Serious answer ones, "Live for dream, no regret in life! Lots of people get regretted only at moment just before death..", "It is your own choice, easy+regrets or challenging+fulling".

Debating ones as one example below:
"Because dreams can't earn you a living."
Me: "Why are you so sure?"
"Reason is simple, which one is more important when you are hungry, dream or living?"
Me: "Why then it is not possible to bow for the living and at the same time bow for dream as well?"
"That is definitely possible, as long as your waist does not get broken." He is making joke here. haha.
3rd party: "Just pick the dream that can yield at least enough for your living then. :)"
Me: "Totally agree." Finally someone understands what I am trying to convery.
"Farmer or chef?"
3rd party: "If those are your dreams, why not?"
"Those two are a bit more realistic and closer to earning for living."

Interesting replies. :)

【思考。Think】专注自己喜欢做的事

专注自己喜欢做的事，你会发现自己无意地被启发，你会无意中发现人生的意义。
Focus on what you like to do, you will find out that you always get inspired without realizing it and you will also find out some meaning of life from within...

【思考。Think】跳舞是群体星

一只舞蹈不会因为比别人表现卓越的你而漂亮，但会因为全体表现一致而非凡！
A dance won't be amazed with other better than you, but will be extraordinary with the whole team performing well.

【思考。Think】如何培养看书的习惯。How to practice reading

从你喜欢的好奇的开始，和你息息相关的书。如果剪头发是你的兴趣，就看和头发有关的书。我昨天买了一本咖啡店执着于咖啡的老板写的书，里边分享着她对咖啡的执着还有她一些以咖啡流下的痕迹，书名为"豆原，做自己喜欢的事"。我是基于三八要了解老板对咖啡的执着有多深。哈哈。

读书真的很有趣的。看多了会开阔视野，会带给我们更多的灵感，会知道更多别人对事的看法引而让我们用更多不同的角度去看同一件事情从而更了解身边的人与事。 

所以，可以的话，养成看书的习惯，一定会得益不浅。加油! :)

Starts with what you like, starts with what you curious with, starts with the books that relate you the most. If hair styling is your passion, read books related to hair. I brought a book wrote by a cafe owner who is passionate in coffee. In this book, she shared about her passion towards the coffee and also the footprint she left with the coffee. The name of the book is "Typica, do the things you like". I read this book to fulfill my curiosity on the deepness of the cafe owner's passion towards the coffee.

Reading is very interesting. The more you read, the more wide will your eyesight be, the more creativity you will get, the more you know how other thinks about certain things and hence you can see the same thing with even more different perspective, then understand better the incidents and people around you.

Therefore, if you can, embrace reading and you will definitely benefit from it. :)

【思考。Think】知识和帮人。Knowledge & Help

今天忽然有个领悟。一开始懂知识是为了了解自己更多，为了了解世界更多。现在才知道，懂更多的知识，也是为了在必须之时帮助到更多的人。
All the while, I red to understand myself more and also to understand this world better. Now I realize that to gain more knowledge is also to help people in need whenever it is necessary.