Good Goodbye 2010!

Tonight, we all are waving goodbye to 2010.

The year of 2010 is a good and productive year for me.

I accomplished the followings in 2010:

(1) Read (and also take a hand-written notes) more than 500 pages of the Buddha's teachings.

(2) Finished writing alphabatical adverbs those are 1827 words.

(3) Finished translation of 90 Aesop's fables from English to Arakanese.

(4) Finished translations of facts of the countries of the world (192 countries).

(5) As I decided, I did not drink four months (from September to December).

Actually, I still have had one more big (excellent) thing that I accomplished in 2010. Sorry, I cannot tell you. (I'll tell you later.)

Any way, Good Goodbye 2010!

Happy New Year 2011!

For every single citizen of the world, have a Great 2011!!!

With warmest regards,

Oo Thein Maung

December 31st

This is Happy New Year eve, which makes one of the days of each year that almost everyone remember.

Actually, December 31st makes Arakanese to remember in a little different way.

Arakan was / is one of the longest civilisations in the world.

(The above is an ancient sculpture: The Buddha and Maha Sanda Suria, an Arakanese King)

(The Country of Arakan in the World Map of A.D. 1200.)

(A Grand View of the Capital City of Mrauk-U. The picture was drawn by a Dutch artist.)

On December 31, 1784, Arakan was brutally annexed by Burmese Army.

Two hundred and twenty six (226) years later, Arakan is one of the lowest and the most impoverished societies in the world, under inadequate rule of Burmese military.

Moreover, many ancient temples and pagodas in Arakan are being bulldozed by Burmese Authorities! You can obviously see the above pictures.

This morning, my Arakanese brothers in New York take a part of demonstration for Freedom of Arakan. I am very proud of my brothers!

After Burmese authorities destroyed even our religious temples, now, we do not have choice!

We want our Freedom!

We want our Independence!

We want our country back!!!

Flowers, Flowers, Beautiful Flowers!

These are pictures of flowers those I took recently.

Enjoy with the views!

Twilight Zone

Sometimes, I take several pictures for the same view under the same situation. However, since things has been changing all the time, the views also change even in a few minutes.

The following pictures were taken in Door County, WI. I took these pictures during a short time (less than 20 minutes) on August 9, 2009.

Once I wrote a page about the needs to become a professional photographer. You can read it in the following link:
http://thazon.blogspot.com/2008/08/what-do-you-need-to-become-professional.html

Thank you very much and enjoy with the twilight pictures!

Happy Birthday Your Majesty!

"Being careless and imprudent can lead to mistakes and damages in one's responsibility. When one becomes senseless and unreasonable, one can become forgetful and afraid and can abuse his or her authority. This is very dangerous. This kind of practice can lead to downfall to oneself and the country.”


(from the speech of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand on his 83rd birthday)

Source: The Nation Newspaper of Thailand.

Picture: http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/209820/king-delivers-birthday-speech

http://creativeroots.org/?p=3663

Stories those I read recently: A Pharmacy Owner

Once, there was an old woman who owned a pharmacy for indigenous medicinal ingredients. She got sick for weeks. Several doctors in the region took care of her already with any possibility, but she was still getting sick.

One day, one of her daughters suggested, “Mom, all doctors in the central, east, west and north regions came to take care of you already. You are still getting sick; how about if we call a doctor from the south?” The old woman replied with faltering voice, “Well, there will be nothing difference, because he is also taking care of his patients with medicines from my pharmacy!”

Snakes know the best about their legs!

Picture: http://www.edinformatics.com/inventions_inventors/Mirror.jpg

Happy Birthday Kai!!

Today is our youngest daughter, KaiSein's birthday. She is very funny but lovely.
In the above picture, Kai (with princess' crown) and her sister, Mahla were together standing.
The following is one of Kai's funny (little dirty) videos.
Whatever it is, let kids grow happily and innocently!
Today, Kai turns three. Happy Birthday Kai! We love you very much!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING 2010!!!



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The Hardest Part

One night in 2007, I got drunk because of my drinking little more than ‘limit.’ At that night, I created this blog, and now I have more than three hundred posts already.
Though I did not post daily or weekly or regularly, I have been posting whenever I wish, with enjoyment and fun. Some of my posts could be useful information or suggestion for some people, while some enjoy with kids’ videos and pictures. Very good!

Recently, I began to make the list of adverbs (from Burmese to English – alphabetically) in order to support my writing. In writing, adverbs play in a vital role, since they provide or make different in the works of verbs. I know words in my language but mostly, I do not know in English. That’s why I have been making the list. I have been doing it almost everyday. Today, I passed 1000th adverb and I will be continuing without fail as much as I can till end of it.

I remember an award winning writer once said that to do things daily towards one purpose was the most difficult because he said that – “Let me give you an example that you decide to write an A in your book everyday. It is not a difficult duty to write an A in your book but how many people will be writing an A without fail day by day through out one year, do you think? Many people stop it after a few days later, while some others fail to continue after a few months.” That’s what he said.

It is true that to do something everyday without fail is difficult. But if we really try, we can do it. The Buddha said that there are four ways to finish a heavy service / a heavy duty:
1) To do/work/take part everyday (daily) till the job be totally done.
2) To do/work from start to end (A to Z) till nothing is remained, with determination (whether working daily or not).
3) To do/work for a long term (years/decades, etc) till totally finished.
4) To do/work happily in any part of effort of it, till the whole duty is accomplished.

Among the above four ways to finish the heavy duties, the Buddha said that – if you practice and determine to work daily, eventually, you can do it. Some people really work daily. To try till cross the finished line with determination, yes, you can. Some people really do that way. To finish a heavy duty that you suppose to work for decades, centuries, yes you can. Some people truly accomplish huge duties after many decades later. Now, to finish the whole heavy duty, to work happily with enjoyment in any effort of it, is – the most difficult part. Practice for it!

How great wisdom it is! We can be done our jobs by any way by any mean in a short term or in a long term but are we happy / enjoy any part of effort of it? As the Buddha said – it is the hardest part – to serve our duties happily. Basically, to enjoy with what we are doing is the most difficult!

I hope I will be posting in my blog with enjoyment for each post of it, as I am trying to pass the hardest part!

Thank you very much and have a great day!

Karaha and Pasansa (Pathantha)

Today, I would like to share with my friends about one of the Buddha’s teachings for the persons who work for public, for the people who work with many others in a group, in a party; especially – for the leaders.

The Buddha said that someone who works for many others or someone who works with many others, or, leaders need to tolerate or resist two things in order to the service be well done:
- Karaha, and
- Pasansa.

Karaha means ‘dispraising’, ‘censuring’, ‘criticizing’, ‘opposition’, ‘pseudo praising’, ‘negatively approaching’, etc.
Pasansa means ‘praising’, ‘supporting’, ‘positively approaching’, ‘facing too many successes’, ‘facing too much famous’, and so on.

Both Karaha and Pasansa are not easy to resist or to tolerate at all.

There are many people who cannot tolerate on being criticized, while many others fail to realize the pseudo praising. Some leaders change their prime plans or directions because of the others’ dispraising, while some other leaders stop their trips because of hinders on the way, and various others even turn back from forwarding.

At the same time, many top leaders get early resigns and some of them even get fired because of inappropriate sex, receiving bribes, steal the public money, out of discipline, and so on. Some lottery winners get a shock and die on the spot after they hear that they win millions.

Basically, because of Karaha, we get anger, wariness and ignorance. Because of Pasansa, we get pride, greed and again - ignorance. And then, we make wrong decisions, inappropriate manners and activities. Afterwards, you know - the consequences. Since then, how should we defense or resist or tolerate on all those praise or dispraise, positive or negative, success or failure, famous or notorious? The only medicine for all of those diseases, is – “mindfulness.” Every time you get something bad or worse or the worst, tolerate on it with mindfulness. Every time you get something good or better or the best, resist on it with mindfulness. How to? Please try to remember of reminding by yourself that not to extremely feel about it; act or react on it, whether which is positive or negative. Go by the middle path appropriately, again – with ‘mindfulness.’

As soon as you lose your mindfulness in very sensitive cases, you die. ‘You die’ means – not your body. You may still have billions of dollars, or high position/s, but your fairness dies; your moral dies; your (true) value dies; your integrity dies; your great attitude dies. You will be alive with many properties, but actually (by the view of humanity’s true values), you died already.

So, my friends, the more you can tolerate those Karahas and Pasansas, you all will become better persons and greater leaders for yourselves; for your families, for your communities, for your countries and for our world as well. Those kinds of persons, people and leaders are needed in our world. Let us try our best to tolerate!

Thank you and have a great day!

Happy Kids

Kids always love to build,

We should not block on that wish.

Whether which is difficult or easy,

They are always more than happy.

Even for a little work,

They are very proud of!!

An Effective Way to Solve Problem: Practice like a Lion

Hello!
Have you ever seen in a different way from your friends or the others, while all of you were looking at the same picture or symbol? Almost all of us will say “yes,” because we all have had enough experience about it.

Very similarly, for only one kind of action, different people or different creations give different reactions.

Let us experience an event as the following:

You throw a little stone onto or near a rabbit. What do you think about the reaction of rabbit? There is no doubt that without any kind of examination or checking about, she will run away as fastest as she can.

Then, you throw that little stone onto or near a dog. What will be the dog’s reaction? The dog’s reaction can be one out of two ways: either to run away like the rabbit does, or , to follow that stone and sniff at it.

Now, you throw that little stone onto or near a lion. What will be the lion’s reaction, do you think? Neither the lion will run away like a rabbit nor follow and sniff like a dog. Instead, the lion will examine with his sharp ears and eyes that – where does this stone come from? Who throw it? How and why? Etc.. And yet, if it is the need, he will jump on and fight on the stone thrower with the strength as much as it has.

That’s different reactions of three different kinds of animals on the same action. The whole theme that I would like to say hereby is – when we solve the problems, to try to be result oriented like a lion in order to find the source of the problem, as much as we can. If we are just activity oriented, we will be being just like a rabbit or a dog that either we will be running away or following the stone, and we will never have chance to see the stone thrower, which is the key source of the problem. Since then, we will be solving that problem in the wrong ways, obviously.

Actually, many of us are activity oriented. Some people know about that kind of weak point of human beings, and they strategically use it for their benefits. If you want to see more clearly about this, please watch (if you watched already, you may rewatch or remember about it) the movie – “No Country for Old Man.” The Cone brothers artfully set up about this in one of the scenes of the movie. While many others are running and happening around because of a car explosion, what the guy (protagonist) is doing? How he set it up (whether which is good or bad for the others) strategically for his own benefit? That’s a little show for our weak points of activity orientations.

Any way, so, my friend, please remark that – in order to solve a problem appropriately and effectively, please be a result oriented person, instead of activity oriented. In other words, please practice like a lion does, instead of following ways of a rabbit or a dog!

Thank you very much and have a great day!

Ref: Dhamma teachings.

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Practice like a Turtle

Yesterday, one of my little daughters was coloring a picture, which was a turtle. Then, I remember a show on TV. One of the TV shows that our family watch often is AFV (America’s Funniest Videos). Recently, we saw a show at AFV, which was included a turtle and a dog. In the show, a turtle was walking around and (kind of) teasing to a dog. Every time the dog tried to bite or catch the turtle, the turtle put head, two front legs, two hind legs and tail into her hard shell. However, whatever the dog tried to bite any part of the turtle’s sensible body, it was unsuccessful because of the turtle’s safe defense.

After I saw that show, I remembered one of the Buddha’s teachings that “Every person who would like to go to further, higher place, with dignity appropriately, practice like a turtle.”

The Buddha’s example story was as the following:

One evening, a turtle was coming out to seek for food. At the same time, a fox was also came out to find for food. At the bank of a river, the fox saw the turtle. Yap…the fox was very happy because he saw a middle size turtle who did not have any sharp, long nail, fang or any other dangerous body part to defense his catch or bite. The fox hatched the turtle; tried to catch; approached to bite by any way with any possibility. Nothing was successful because of the turtle’s strategic defense. Every time the fox came near to the turtle, the turtle already put its head, front legs, hind legs and (almost invisible) little, short tail. The fox was hungry; tired; angry; frustrated because he tried the whole night to catch the turtle with any possibility but it did not work by any way. In the morning, when the sun come out, the fox had to leave the turtle with his hungry stomach and extreme frustration as the other bigger and danger animals come out around. The turtle safely went into the water – ‘bye bye my friend, fox!’

The Buddha said that any monk, nun or a leader or a person who would like to go further, higher place, higher rank with dignity, humble, without any kind of hinder, danger, suppose to practice like a turtle. There were / are/ shall be many kinds of threatening, dangers, persuasions, attractions those could lead to failure of us in any society of any era through out mankind’s history. How should we defense those? Practice like a Turtle!

Do you see now what did the Buddha exactly mean and how great his wisdom? Why did he give the turtle as an example; how it makes match between a turtle’s and a man’s?

As a turtle has six parts of body those make his life and at the same time can create danger for him, we also have six senses those make our lives and at the same time can create danger for us; 1. seeing, 2. hearing, 3. smelling, 4. taste, 5. feeling, and 6. our mind, itself.

We all have been experiencing that many persons, people and leaders died, assassinated, destroyed, fall downed, faced the most embarrassed matters in utter disgrace because as human beings, we all have had greed, anger, ignorance, feelings, thoughts, prides, and so on, and so forth. Where do they come from? There is no doubt that all those greed, anger, ignorance, feeling, thought, pride etc come from through out our six windows of seeing, hearing, smelling, taste, feeling and our mind itself.

Do you want to be a nice person in your life?
Do you want to be a great leader?
Do you want to be a humble man for humanity?

My dear friend, the best and the most appropriate suggestion could be, like the Buddha taught – “Please Practice Like a Turtle!” How? Since we do not have hard shells like a turtle has, please guard your those six windows as much as you can with mindfulness and self-discipline. (Next time, if I have a chance, I will discuss the guarding ways in detail.)

Thank you and have a great day!


Picture: http://www.vernonanimalcare.com/images/turtle.gif

Mahla's Magic Show

In this little show, Mahla, our little daughter gets theme of magic, at least!

Enjoy the show!

FAID

Today, I would like to share a new English word, which is ‘FAID,’ that I create through out the Buddha’s teachings. Grammatically, ‘faid’ could be a ‘verb’ or a ‘noun.’ For the term of verb, faid means – somebody say / act / do something wrong or inappropriate whether he or she knew / know that was/is wrong or inappropriate or not. For the term of noun, faid stands for incorrect or inappropriate action or activity of somebody whether he or she know / knew that action / activity is/was wrong or inappropriate.

Each letter of ‘F’ ‘A’ ‘I’ ‘D’ stands for different specific reason and all four combinations become the new English word, ‘faid.’

In the word, ‘faid,’ the letter F stands for ‘Fear.’ I believe in that any one of us has had enough experience that we say/act/do something because of fear even though we know/knew it is/was incorrect or inappropriate. We did/are doing/will be doing those incorrect or inappropriate matters because of fear. We fear of dying. We fear of losing our jobs. We fear of losing relationship with somebody. We fear of losing something. We fear of ……..

Let me give you a true example for this. We often hear that many soldiers and officers in Burmese Army say they are doing many kinds of army duties even though they know those orders and duties are not right or inappropriate; but they are doing it because of fear – fear of their future, fear of losing their promotion, fear of consequences, etc. Next month, people of Burma will be voting an election, which will have invisible result/s because of many reasons. Any result of the election can become ‘illegal; any party in the election can become ‘illegal; any candidate in the election can become ‘illegal’ or ‘violence of state law’ or something like that for any reason of any mean by any high authority in any time. But Burmese people will be voting it because of fear though they all know / knew the election is inappropriate or not in the right way. And yet, some years or a few decades later, children or grand children of current voters might have chance to vote again in another new election for new kind of invisible future because of the election that their parents and grand parents voted was ‘illegal.’ But they all also will be participating in it because fear. That’s an example of F – Fear.

The letter A in ‘faid’ stands for ‘Anger.’ I knew it was inappropriate but I hit several times to my kids already because of my ‘anger.’ How many people are in the jail already because they did things those were not suitable or not right but they did it because of anger? I believe in that millions! Some people even kill some people because of anger. Any way, we all have had more than enough life-long experiences about these kinds of consequences of anger by ourselves and by the others as well. That’s A – Anger.

I stands for ‘ignorance’ in this word of ‘faid.’ We often do wrong or unsuitable things because of we do not know which is the right or suitable way. We did it; we are doing it; and we will be doing those matters because we do not know exact the right way/s. We often see in the courts – people say that they did not know it was right or wrong at that time, and so on, and so forth… That’s I – Ignorance.

The last letter, D of ‘faid’ stands for Desire. We often say/act/do incorrect and inappropriate things because we desire; we want; we wish though we know it is incorrect and inappropriate. But we are doing it because of our desire, which could be our greed, our jealous, etc.. That’s D – Desire.

So now, we have new English word, which is ‘faid,’ and we know the meaning of it, already.
I have a frank question for you my friend that how many times do you faid in a day? How many times other human beings in the world are faiding? Can you imagine about it? Since then, the world (humans’ world) is full with those ‘faids.’ In other words, whether we / you like it or not, we or you are living with FAIDs.

Thank you and have a great day!

Baby Dance

Izana's First Water Skiing

The Hold and the Freedom

(Let our children grow more innocently than we are!!)

A few weeks ago, I went to a park with my children. One of my daughters had grape-tomato in her hands and the other one was holding her little toys. The problem was that they both could not be able to climb or play around in the park because their hands were not free to hold the other things. In other words, they could not go higher because of their holding; kind of self-hinders on the way of higher, further places or freedom.

Then, I remember one of the Buddha’s examples about - how the holds make us away from freedom.

Once, a hunter set up a couple coconuts to catch the jungle monkeys. He made a little hole at one side of the coconut/s and put monkeys’ favorite foods inside. On the other side of coconut/s, he put a small and strong string. He grabbed the string/s and hided in a bush.

When the monkeys came, they found coconuts full of their favorite foods inside. Monkeys even fought each other to get the coconuts. Finally, the biggest ones of the group won the fight and they got the coconuts. The giant monkeys began to eat foods that were inside of the coconuts. The holes those the hunter set up in coconuts were big enough to put monkeys’ hands but when they hold food inside, they were not able to take their hands out. The clever hunter put food that made such tasteful smell for monkeys. Because of the smell, as well as they felt foods in their hands, hungry monkeys tried to take out their hands from the coconuts. However, the tighter they hold foods, the more difficulties they faced to take their hands out. At the same time, the hunter was pulling the strings into the bush where he was hiding, till the monkeys reached for good enough place to be caught.

Poor monkeys knew lately that the more they were holding foods (their favorites), the further from freedom or the nearer to the danger.

The stories demonstrated many lessons for us and some of them could be the followings:

- Our greediness often leads us to be in danger or it makes us to go far away from freedom.

- Because of our holds, we are not able to get the other things. (Ours are full already with what we have.) In other words, we cannot go higher, further and into the true freedom, with holding those (our favorite, loves, hates, beliefs, isms, etc….) matters. Even it is difficult to see or accept the others’ favorites, loves, hates, beliefs, isms, etc. Eventually, we become self-slaves of our favorites, loves, hates, beliefs, isms and so on. Humans, the highest thinkers among all creations, should live above of them, but instead, we are under of them, and become the slaves of them, and even we are fighting, killing and destroying each other as slaves of those matters. The worse and more sorrowful thing is that we consciously or unconsciously are setting our innocent new generations to actively participate in those slavery matters (because of our weaknesses) and to our children get troubling futures where there never will be ending!!!

- The tighter we hold the further from true freedom. And yet, nothing of them is not permanent since all things are moving, changing, occurring and disappearing in its or their time.

At least, let us try to not to be self-slaves of what we have, love, hate, favor and believe. After we pass this stage, we will have grand opportunity to see clearer each other!

Please remember that the more we hold / grab the further from freedom or higher places!

Thank you!

How Elder Sister Set Potty Training Up for Younger One?

Brother and Sisters Play Together

Brother and Sisters Sing a Song Together

About the Nature: Two

Have you been seen the big oxen's fight? And how do the other cattle stay when the two oxen are fighting? And what the other cattle do after the fight is finished?

Our family had a farm and more than ten cattle. In summer, we had “Prun Hlwat Chin” roughly translation to English could be - “Free Time” for the cattle. We, all villagers of the region (about 5 villages) had unwritten agreement that to give free time to all cattle in a very wide pasture. The free time was about three months (mostly March, April and May).

In free time, all the cattle (hundreds) from all villages could be eating the grass, play and sleep altogether in the same large pasture, without any work, any restriction, with totally freedom. They went around. Sometimes, they fought each other. The cow owners (from every village) went the place where the cattle were and checked their cows in their convenient time variedly, once per week, once per every two weeks, once per month, etc. Some cows gave birth during that free time and the owners got new little lovely cattle. It was when I was about seven. During free time, I remarkably noticed something that all cattle grew faster, become bigger and they looked so much happier than any other time. Most cow owners even did not recognize their cows well because of cattle’s changing bodies and behaviors, naturally.

Any way, I mainly would like to share here is about ‘the fight’ of cattle in the herd. In that free time, sometimes, big oxen fought each other for any reason. When big bulls fought, it was really great time to watch. I had chances to watch those events often. My interest was not just the two big oxen who were fighters, but also on the rest cattle. It was interestingly enough that the whole rest cattle were just watching on the fight. They did nothing. Most cattle even did not eat the grass, but just watching silently with straight ears. After the fight, there were always a winner and a loser. Loser ran speedily. Winner followed speedily and gored the loser. Here is more interesting part that - what the other cattle in the herd did at that time do you know? Many of them followed and gored the loser, together with the winner. They did not have any kind of thinking and examining that if (so called) a winner fought ethically or not; if a winner was a blind-seer or not; if a winner acted unilaterally or not, and so on, and so forth. They just gored a loser together with a winner after the fight.

It was true lesson that I learned from the herd. However, they were cattle and bulls in the herd. It was one of natural habits of those animals. Any way, what do you think with some/many human beings' actions and behaviors at similar events in humanity?

P.S: I mean hereby is for any fighter, any winner, any loser and any watcher, especially when the competition is led to 'winning is the most important; do/act anything (ANYTHING) to win!' but not to lead development of both competitors! Thanks!

Learning from Nature: Leech

Today, I got a call from a friend who is currently jobless because he resigned from his first job before he actually gets the second one. Now, the second one is not sure and he becomes jobless.

While he was talking about his joblessness, I remembered about the leeches to which I watched about 30 minutes long, sometimes.

When I was young, we had a little channel in front of our yard that the water went down through in the raining season. In that water-channel, there were many leeches. I watched them sometimes very interestingly. The most interesting part what I found was when they searched the way to go in land or on a material. A leech is like a soft tube without bone, in my sense. It has one bigger hole at the back and one smaller hole in front. When a leech goes forward or moves, the smaller / front part could be searching around till it finds something to firmly step on it. Unless she finds something firmly by her front part, a leech never takes off her back part. In a very narrow matter, to find a new space to step on is difficult for a leech, but she would never take off her back part.

I told my friend that he should learn from a leech in this case that he should not resign his first job before he actually finds the second one firmly. He laughed and said that next time; he will act like a leech. Our conversation was just for fun, but it is true that there are unlimited lessons those we can learn from the nature around us.

Thanks!


Picture: http://clean-water.uwex.edu/pubs/clipart/images/CRITTER/original/Leech.jpg

About the Nature: One

It is curriculum night. My wife and I go to our eldest son, Izana’s classroom. We meet with his teacher and talk around tips of teaching or learning program for this year; what parents can do for children and for school as well; Dos and Don’ts, and so on and so forth. After we come back home, the event makes me to remember my very own story that I wrote when I was in tenth grade.

When I was in high school, I met a man who was very respectful. He was the first person who graduated from college in their village. He had four children and all his children were educated persons and in the middle-class list of the society. In my sense, he was also very honest and well-speaker. Whenever I saw him, if he did not working something, he could be reading or listening to the radio very interestingly and he could share with us (students) very often about his knowledge that he got from reading and listening to.

Any way, when I was about seven, there were three tall coconut trees in the backyard of our house. (Our house had such a big yard.) Every year, a couple of mynas made a nest. They could lay four eggs and four little mynas could be given birth. I was looking at the mynas’ family every day and sometimes, hours as I was interested in. I really learned how they made their nest; where did they get those materials for nest; how they lay eggs; how little birds came out from eggs. How they grow their children, etc, etc.

After I finished my final exam of 10th grade, the two stories (a respectful, educated man and the mynas) came into my mind heavily and I typed what I thought. It became about seventy pages long story. My story was that I wrote almost exactly my respectful person’s family in different scenes. At the same time, I also wrote identical scenes of growing mynas’ family. And theme of the story was – after that myna father and the human father died, what was difference between the two in the true meaning of life-pattern?

In both stories, both fathers were very dutiful. As a human being, the man gave great heritage to his all children to become educated persons; how to live in life as humans; how to work; make money; how to manage the family; what are values in life (this could be difference from each other of human beings) and so on. As a bird father, he also taught his children how to fly; how to find food; how to life under the storm; how to defense enemies; how to live in winter, summer and in the rain, etc. Every single thing that a bird should / must know how to survive in life, he taught to his children till those little birds were able to make their own nest. Both fathers were absolutely respectful and dutiful.

Because of a human being, the man was living in a house. Because of a myna, the bird was living in a nest. Because of a human being, the man ate rice and bread (mainly). Because of a myna, the bird ate grains and other little ones, such as insets. Each of them had four children. All children (four humans and four birds) were educated (in terms of life-patterns). Because of human beings, those children learn the surviving ways in life at school, university, etc. Because of birds, those mynas learn surviving methods from their parent-birds. Because of human being’s life-span, those guys could live 70/80 to 100 years. Because of mynas, those birds could live less than ten years or something like that. However, if that man was living in life just for himself, his family; eat, sleep and make love, what was meaningful difference between the two lives of that person and that myna? It was theme of my story. (I lost that little book somewhere when I run or moved around.)

The story was about part of nature between a human being and a bird. If I have time, I will write that story in English as much as I remember.

Thank you and to answer theme question of my novel, I will tell you that – Please Be Dutiful!


(P.S: And yet, there are many human beings who are not dutiful at all, or less than a myna. How I will be able to raise my kids, I do not know yet. Our eldest son is now just in first grade. I hope at least that I will be in the same level of a myna father.)



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