2011年10月25日 星期二

Man, Woman, Wild video

In the video of Man, Woman, Wild, we see what life may be like on the ship for three days. If we connect to Pi's situation right now, we can kind of imagine how hard it will be for him. Plus he has to lived with wild, dangerous animals. He already has to face problem on keeping himself from starving and dehydrating, now these animals will just bring more challenge to him on keeping himself alive!

  • Under the hot burning sun, Pi may get sunstroke like the man in the video, but no one will be there to help him beside himself!
  • He may face problem such as starvation too. Although he is surrounded by water, but he can't drink it, because it's salt water. How sad is it?
  • He need foods to survive but as he's finding food for himself, he also need to make sure he won't become the "food" of other animals. Isn't that ironic?
  • He's just a weak forteen years old boy, how is he going to protect himself when the hyena or the tiger attack him?  
  • The worse of all, Pi's not just physically weakening through starvation and dehydration, he's also weakening spiritually and mentally. Due to the shock and frightening of understanding the real, wild side of an animals and the concept of "The weak are the prey of the strong".
  • He's exausted and tired and he wants rest, he's so weary to the point that he feels nothing at all, he's not afraid of anything anymore...his senses are numb...
But it seems to be like his natural tendency is motivating him to live on. Although all these things are happeneing so quickly in front of him, and it's so fast that he's not ready to carry it all yet. But still,  he realize that he don't want to die. Because for him, the most important thing in the world right now is to live on. This is something really interesting about human beings. Often time when we face challenges and problems we will want to give up, but after all the depression, 90% of people will stand up again and confront all the problems. Because they don't want to give up, they are not reconciled, and they know they don't like this feeling.
Everyone will have this feeling in some point of thier life, even those who had given up and decided to end everything through dealth. Die is an easy thing to think of but a difficult thing to act on. Usually it is those that love themselves that are more likely to come up with this decision. Why? Because they love themself so much that they don't want to see themselves getting wounded by all these problems. They don't like this burden that is pushing down heavily on their shoulders, they want to let it down, they need rest. And it is not until the time that they are almost dying that they finally realize that they don't like dealth, and they don't want to die.
This is not going to be easy...
Although they are not dead yet but it is always until this time for these people to understand the beauty of life. Because having problems and challenges is a special privilege only for those who are alive. If you die, you will have nothing. But often time, it's too late for them to realize this fact. So I am really impressed with Pi, because it's not easy for a forteen years old boy to face these problems alone. There most be so many questions going on in his head this time, such as is my family still alive? Why did this happen to me? Or what should I do next? But despite these facts he came up with the solution "to live on". To be honesty with you, I might be the one who choose to die and end everything because I will be tired to think of what to do. We don't know what will happens next, but this is life, and we can learn something important from these lessons and the beauty of endeavor.

1 則留言:

  1. TOAST Score: 20/20.

    T: 4/4.
    O: 5/5. As always, LOTS of amazing ideas. I like that you focused on more than just the physical survival—you had a lot about the mental/spiritual survival!
    A: 4/4.
    S: 2/2.
    T: 5/5.

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