Friday, December 01, 2006

Biya in a sick bed.

Read an article that Han Biya, the writer and a humanitarian worker who is famous for her amicable nickname of "daughter of the wind," became ill because of years of overloaded stress and traumatic aftermath syndrome of many of her assignments in war zones around the world. It was very odd to know someone like her can even fall ill and have to be taken care of instead of caring the others. And I became wondered, 'who is going to take care of her now?'

Capability that we possesses must have its limitation. Consciously or unconsciously, we all must be aware of this, yet somehow, some decides to push themselves until finally they fell down and not longer capable of pursuing what they've been doing. Why have they chosen that kind of life path? That doesn't necessarily guaranttee much in most of cases. Did they anyway do that even after realizing the fact? or, simply they were so possessed with what they've been taught in childhood? Were they too naive not paying enough attention how the real world is working? Or they were heroes but we conveniently decried them as "idealists," who more commonly understood as those lack of compromises and senses on the "real world" to cover up our hypocracy?"