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帶著隨和的心態來觀光，沿路遇到的第一個乞丐第一次起了慈悲心小捐，並細語鼓勵一番。進入主廟發現一整排的乞丐後頓覺心神震顫，怎麼這麼神聖的地方會有那麼多這種人？認知裡廟是人們來求助的地方、求平安的淨土，偏偏坐著一排又一排需要幫助的乞丐，這偏差讓人反思。真的沒有人肯幫助他們嗎？還是他們不要自救？無從解答。勢單力薄，默默在心裡祝福他們。
只能說地方不重要，只要能生存，哪裡都能扎根。求神拜佛只是給心裡一個寄託，不自救神仙下凡也無力挽回。對別人善良要憑能力，對自己善良才是對世界善良。共勉

2018年9月頭 筆

Fear

Did a little experiment with my doggo. Well to be more specific she's not mine but my younger sister's. Anyway some background story about the dog, whenever it rains she'll start trembling, her breathing intensified, she'll scratch on your door if you let her outside, she'll try to climb over your bed when you're trying to sleep and constantly pace around and over you, not caring if her saliva is dripping on you or not. Well that's horrible. I couldn't stand it and let her outside so I could sleep. Noise is better than physical disturbance eh.
So it was raining this morning and I grasped the chance to figure out what is this doggo's problem with the rain once and for all. I followed her around, I asked her questions again and again, I tried different actions to see her changed reactions, like treating a crying baby you couldn't understand. I was devastated that technology today have so many different translators available on the market, why don't they have a doggo-to-human translator! Anyway in the end, I found out that she was actually afraid of the thunder, instead of the rain itself. She was anticipating thunder whenever it rains, you know, no rain no thunder. So I tried to simulate thunder by playing some YouTube video that I could get my hand on, of course the quality was not at all on par with the real deal, (not the video quality but my phone, mind you) at the same time comforting her that it was alright, and what do you expect! She gradually calmed down and me a happy boi.

If I had started this experiment I wouldn't have to suffer for so many years, looking back.

Choices & Probability

What are choices? We make choices every single day, hundreds, thousands, millions of them. Even the cells in our body makes choices all the time, albeit it's a simple one between a yes and no, every single one of them.

Sometimes we think we have no choices at all, or that we only have a single choice, that is to do or die. Even die itself is a choice. But in reality, is that really true? Choices are those that present themselves at that particular time and situation, in our best ability of understanding affected biologically or psychologically. However the truth is, we have unlimited amount of choices that we can make to deal with the situations at hand, just that we aren't AWARE of them.