Random thoughts

I kept having the following thought during Mr. Ho's class last Saturday. I imagined what would happen if the people in my company, especially my bosses and senior colleagues, were there in the classroom, attending the class. Once I started, I somehow could not stop.

Some background information: I work at an information system engineering company which does outsourced jobs from the government. It is headed mainly by people who have been there for 15+ years (that is, ever since it started), and whose lives revolve solely around the company. They are people who can be found working at the office at 4 in a Saturday afternoon. Surely they are respectable people who work hard trying to make some contribution to the society, but I sometimes wonder if they truly LIVE at all. Have they ever had the chance, or been inspired to examine their lives from a new perspective? Would they feel being thrown into the deep end if they were asked to do so? Would one of our directors, an avid storyteller, be able to re-examine her many stories, which are often loaded with prejudice and hasty generalization?

It is also sad for people to become so jaded and weary because of the humdrum of life and "business concerns", failing to recognize the simple pleasures.