吊詭

 上網看到兩則慨嘆世事吊詭的短文,很有意思,謹節錄並轉載於此,讓大家分享。

回歸本本業

我們縱然擁有令人艷羨的法治、社會制度和自由,不少人卻不予珍惜,甚至忘記自己本分。學生應該上學讀書,卻選擇罷課和走上街頭;教師本應專心教學反而熱中政治權術之爭;校長理應掌管校政,但在大小事務上都唯教師和學生馬首是瞻;議員並非議事,口若懸河只為阻撓議案的通過,莊嚴的議會如同馬戲團般精采。

更有甚者,中國人竟不可坦蕩承認自己的身份國籍。在台灣以至香港,承認自己是中國人竟成忌諱,有香港人既承認香港是中國的一部分,卻不承認是中國人,何其精神分裂。林林總總,也無非是讓恐懼和私利掩蓋了本分。』

THE PARADOX OF OUR TIME

  1. We live in times when we see many humans, but not enough humanity ;

  2. We live in times when the rich has more rooms than chil­dren and the poor has more chil­dren than rooms ;

  3. We live in times when smart phones bring you clos­er to those who are far, but dis­tance you from those who are close;

  4. We live in times when we open Face­book, more than Holy Book ;

  5. We live in times when a sin­gle moth­er can look after 10 chil­dren, but 10 chil­dren can’t look after a sin­gle mother ;

  6. We live in times when the rich walk miles to digest food, while the poor walk miles to obtain food ;

  7. We live in times when our con­tact lists are huge, but our rela­tion­ships are poor ;

  8. We live in times when our pos­ses­sions are more, but our appre­ci­a­tion is less ;

  9. We live in times when we know how to earn a good liv­ing, but some­how for­get how to live good ;

  10. We live in times when many know the price of every­thing, but  the val­ue of nothing ;』