Dear TomHa(again),
Haha, sorry for disturbing you again, guess I forgot to update about this interesting conversation I had with someone you would not know. He is a friend of mine, quite a long time one in fact, well, he came back for a short holiday from studies in Australia and we were having this little chat the other day. We were talking about everything under the sun until for some reasons, we began to talk about our future. He said that he wanted to be one of the best stock broker in the world perhaps rivalling George Soros(I hope I got the name correctly), I did not say much except wishing him all the luck that I could wish him... I guess he needed it..haha.. well, then it was my turn and I told him that I wanted to be a firefighter, be part of our local Civil Defence, help save lives and rescue civilians' property.... you know all those grandiose crap that I had for myself.. then he laughed. He laughed at my mediocre ambition(he had always been such an idiot) and then began talking that saving lives is indeed a very noble dream but wouldn't it be better being a doctor as you will help the victim first-hand. Fire-fighters don;t necessary save lives by bringing the victime out of the blazing flames. I corrected his mistake of first-hand and he changed it to saving lives directly. Then he started ranting about the part of rescuing property being really stupid. Well, I guess a rich kid like him wouldn't be able to understand, would he, about the importance man actually place on their property which once lost, could mean more than their lives themselves.
Man worked hard, through sweat and blood, through looking at computers, through toiling through the race tracks and football fields, through sheer determination to build up whatever they have in the form of their property. Be it just a simple house with simple furnishings, be it just a toy that a kid had saved up so hard for all over the months, be it just a book but contains special meanings.. all these are properties that man had toiled for, had bled for, had sweat for, and for some reasons, they will value it more than their lives. Not that I disagree with the buddhists' notion of not bringing anything in birth, not taking away anything in death, but I believe when you try to save lives, if you can rescue the property of that person, it instills hope in him that things can in fact go back to normal again and wouldn't that be an encouraging thought for him? To get him back on his two feet to live on his life? That's the duty of firefighters I guess.. To save lives, to rescue properties, to instill in the survivors a hope that the disaster does not mean the end of the world and that they could and very well should carry on this life that they had so spectacularly lived for. Life is beautiful because of the ups and downs that it imposes on that person. Some may have more of this, others might have more of that, I believe that is fate. However, to give up on life itself is unthinkable for me.. there is too much to live for in life than to die for... thus, the more I think about it, the more I think that the fire-fighter's job is indeed a really noble one.
Well, I guess like always, I think and blabbered too much.. must get back to maths...