I understand

I ‘Understand’
I’m reading a novel titled Cards of Identity these days. One sentence attracted my attention, which is‘well, I understand it, sir, though I couldn’t say what it means.’ This was spoken by a handmaid after her master preaching whole page of words to her. Yes, I acknowledged that those words are much of psychology and philosophy and I even cannot understand. The handmaid told us truth that what the word “understand” really means.

After we listen to tutors’ teaching, study the key to a mathematics problem, read the concept of economy, we always say “I understand”. However, most possibly we understand but be unable to say the meaning. After class dismissed, those knowledge we seem to understand is return to tutors; after study a solution of a problem, we understand but we cannot solve even the same problem; after we learn the economy concept, we understand it but we cannot apply. Those are examples by which I want to illustrate that sometimes we understand without thinking by ourselves. Our ‘understand’ is just a process that you cover the information. The author, tutor and solution lead you cover the information and with following their idea, you’ understand’. However, we cannot say the meaning after that like that handmaid.

Here I do not want to write too much because my eyes are tired. I want to highlight that if we students can do active and critical thinking whenever er come across new ideas, we can really understand it and get a good result in the examination. How to change? I ‘m not sure.

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Happy Father’s Day
Today is father’s day. The first time I heard of father’s day was two years ago, in high school 2. In that evening, I used Chen Xiao’s hand phone to send my papa a short message. I do not know what was going on in my mind that day, for I never expressed my love to others, esp relatives, openly and I actually did not want to bless him. Because others sent, I sent.
Two years past, I came to Singapore and become a Christian. In my church service, the pastors led us to bless and pray for the fathers and mothers on father’s day and mother’s day. We showed our love for all the fathers today. I also rose up my hand to bless the physical fathers in our church and spiritual fathers, our pastors. Some of my Christian friends bought cards for their fathers. I suddenly found that our Christian really love others.
I thought of God’s words. God taught us to obey and love our parents. He commanded us to love and glory Father. In Bible, there is a story:
There was a man who had two sons. The younger one requested his father to divide the property. The man did so. Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. Then he was quickly in need. He began to set back. His father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him. The father let the servants bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet and kill the fattened calf to celebrate……
This is the father’s love. No matter what the son have sinned against him.
Yes, my father also has a great love for me. Of all the memories I have of him, one was when I was five years old, I wanted a robot toy; He went out to buy at night while it was raining. Then nothing impressive was memorized except negative feelings about him until the night before I went to Singapore. In that evening, we had a dinner with his friends. He was so proud of me. When we back home, he is a little drunk but very happy. I suddenly knew that after 12 years’ hard work for the family and me, he can finally smile.
Recently, I started to reflect on the relationship between me and my father. To obey and love Father, I obey and love my father. I appreciated the effort he has made. God has a special plan for every one. That I lived separately with my parents is also God’s plan for me, for my father and for my mother and even for my whole family. Now I felt very peaceful in my heart. I will not lose tempter to my parents nor refuse the love from them.
Once again, my heartfelt gratitude and thanks to my father and Father in heaven.

Separation between spirit and body
I have always been encountering an idea that human spirit and body (substance) are united. I regard it quit true. On one hand, a haphazard collection of body doesn’t make a person unless it combines the spirit, on the other hand, in death, in a scientific view, spirit is gone. In my opinion, it is natural that spirit and body is wholeness, and we should be like that. However, my classmate’s oral presentation made me rethink of it. She said:“if you take bread everyday, your body will thank you a lot.” Why‘your body’ will thank ‘you’? Are they not the same thing? In this case, I think, “you” and “your body” are not the same one. Definitely,“you” stands for the spirit which controls the body, your body is substance, the other thing. So the separation comes. Separation is that in people’s mind, the spirit and the body are two isolated things without consciousness. This kind of separation does exist among most of us. What is different is the extent. Next I will explain my view from how separation occurs and the relation between separation and some social problems like suicide.
How does the separation between body and spirit come? In my opinion, there are 3 aspects. Firstly, because humans are intelligent creatures, we are able to think advanced. We have faith, conviction and ideas. Thus, we create spirit images for ourselves unconsciously. It is the precondition of separation. Second, after renaissance, human’s spirit was liberated. Great strides have been made in technology and philosophy since renaissance. Since 20th century, people have entered a duration when much importance has been attached to spirit world. People are living in a world where people’s mind, thought, knowledge and ideas are admired greatly. Thus, spirit becomes so important that it is strong enough to get separated. Third, the spirit and the body combine each other and keep a balance to make a person function well. In this state of balance, a person remains what human should be like naturally. However, for example, if a very frustrating thing happens, spirit is trilled and the balance between spirit and body is broken, which makes the person function badly. If spirit is spurred excessively, the separation of spirit from body may happen. It is like the atom which originally keeps a balance with electrons running around the atomic nucleus in stable orbits. However, if extra energy is given, the balance is broken----the electrons are thrilled to change the orbit, and electrons even can be out of control if the energy is great enough.
Separation causes part of suicide and self-hurt. Encountering frustrating things, people (mind, spirit) may consider that the body, whose disability to resolve the problem causes suffer of their spirit image, is the other thing. Thus they want their bodies to suffer what their spirit has suffered. So many people may hurt their body to make up for the spirit. When separation is on the way, they don’t realize the wholeness of spirit and body. Accordingly, if people know that spirit and body is wholeness that the hurt of the body actually is the hurt of whole person(including spirit) but not the other thing, there will be less suicide and self-hurt because they won’t let their body suffer to liberate the spirit.
In summary, the separation really exists. It becomes worse in modern life. The serious separation is against the natural principles. If everybody realizes that the spirit and body are united, we will live a more better and natural life.