My horoscope said that it was not today for me to give up and sigh. Well, I don’t. But I feel the fire in my heart. It is something that is burning my heart in the way of a revolt. It seems to me that I could be broken into pieces. Or probably I wish I could sit foot on anything. I care for nothing. SAD?
I wonder!
Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
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When I was a boy, everybody urged me to get plenty of sunshine, so I got plenty of sunshine for a long time.One day when I was absorbing July sun as fast as I could, a doctor asked what I thought I was doing.
“Getting plenty of sunshine,” I said.
“Are you mad?” he replied.
No, I was not mad,,just slow to catch up with my life’s revisions.Getting plenty of sunshine had been declared dangerous while I was out for lunch. I revised my store of knowledge. Now I get only small droppers of sunshine extracted from the half hour just before sunset.
When I was old enough to notice that girls were pleasantly different from boys, my mother told me the fact of life. “You must always treat a woman like a lady,” she said. So for a long time I went through my life treating women like ladies.
One day while I was helping a woman into her coat, another woman asked me what I thought I was doing.
“Treating a woman like a lady,” I said.
“Are you mad?” she replied.
No, I was not mad, but my interrogator was furious. I had been out to lunch during one of life’s revisions and missed the announcement that it was swinish to treat a woman like a lady. I discarded another piece of my childhood education. Now I treat woman like ticking bombs.
When I was 17 and for many years afterward, I admired Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt as the ideal couple. One evening I had an encounter with a ticking bomb, and contemplated behaving like a fool, but rejected the impulse because we weren’t married.
“What do you think you are doing?” she asked as I fled. I told her that someday I wanted to be half of a couple as ideal couple as Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
“Are you mad?” she replied.
No, not mad, I had been out to lunch during another of life’s revisions and, so had missed the disclosure that Eleanor didn’t get long well with Franklin and the Franklin fooled around when she was out of town. Another part of my youthful education went to the dump.
Perhaps it is not age that defeated me, though. May be it was fatigue caused by the constant trips to the dump to discard everything I’d learned in the first half of my life. Life seemed to be an educator’s practical joke in which you spent the first half of life learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.
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pu is my goal.
knowledge is my passion.
discovering is my happiness.
loneliness is my world.
impermanent
Definition: (adjective) Not lasting or durable; not permanent. Synonyms: temporary Usage: After weeks of carefully constructing the beautiful sand mandala, the Tibetan monks quietly swept it away in a ceremony emphasizing the impermanent nature of existence.
Sau nhiều tuần cẩn thận dựng lên đàn tràng cát đẹp đẽ, những nhà sư Tây Tạng lặng lẽ quét bỏ nó đi trong một nghi lễ với ngụ ý nói lên bản chất giả tạm của tồn tại.
Attitude (psychology)
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This article is about the psychological term. For other uses, see Attitude.Attitude is a hypothetical construct that represents an individual’s like or dislike for an item. Attitudes are positive, negative or neutral views of an “attitude object”: i.e. a person, behaviour or event. People can also be “ambivalent” towards a target, meaning that they simultaneously possess a positive and a negative bias towards the attitude in question.
Attitudes are composed from various forms of judgments. Attitudes develop on the ABC model (affect, behavioral change and cognition). The affective response is a physiological response that expresses an individual’s preference for an entity. The behavioral intention is a verbal indication of the intention of an individual. The cognitive response is a cognitive evaluation of the entity to form an attitude. Most attitudes in individuals are a result of observational learning from their environment.
Thái độ được kiến lập trên cơ sở mô hình ABC (affect – tác động, behavioral change – thay đổi thái độ, cognition – nhận thức).
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
