Ordinary Life is Good Enough 平凡人生已是夠好的人生
I've recently got hold of a voice clip by Alain de Botton, a popular British philosopher, specialising in answering questions about human nature such as love, relationship, happy and fulfilling life; and he is a founder of School of Life. This time the topic was " What's Wrong With Living an Ordinary Life? ". What he said about simple ordinary life really resonates with me, I can't agree more. The voice clip on YouTube is worth listening. I have quoted some words from Alain de Botton in the lower part of the article. ********************************** I write this article because: Many university/school students across the world had chosen to end their lives after or around exams or graduation time, even some old people/ the needy/ the caregivers had chosen to kill themselves because of the feeling of loss of value, long-term tiredness/ hopelessness, long-term emotional and physical torture etc , which saddened me. My soul was disturbed. More and more of them had