Globalization

Most people believe that globalization can bring us more wonderful life, but I don’t think so. It’s because everything just like a mirror which has two sides---bright and dark.

On the advantage part, people can easily enjoin the fun and convenience from globalization. For example, if we are hungry but we don’t want to go into traditional restaurants, we may choose fast food. It’s easily to find a fast food restaurant in Taiwan. When we need to enjoy a cup of coffee and choose a place which can allow people stay for a long time and offer good atmosphere, we may go to star backs. Even we don’t have to go out, and we still can enjoin the convenience of globalization. We may just open our computers and search the Internet, and then we can find not only information from different countries but also everything what we need. Globalization let different countries be connected together and exchange information more easily and fast. That’s why globalization becomes a trend.

On the disadvantage part, Globalization will become a symbolization of strong culture. A strong culture is like an invader to invade another disadvantaged culture by globalization. That’s because some traditions of these countries will become withered and even disappear in all respects. It’s a serious problem, because some of the whole disadvantaged cultures may disappear. Why the world is so colorful and characteristic, because there are different and unique cultures in the world. That’s also why people like to travel in different countries.

Japan is a country which deal with this problem well. Japan people understand to protect their culture and keep their culture. They love and pride of their traditions, but they don’t refuse all the foreign cultures. Oppositely, they try to accept some good cultures for them by selecting. They also do a good job of combining the foreign culture and their traditional culture, and even try to absorb the advantages of foreign culture into their traditional culture and become their new and unique culture.

Therefore, I think that Taiwan is like an ocean which is never refusing any culture whether it’s good or not. We should to protect our culture, not just blind to accept the different foreign culture. Once our whole traditional culture disappears, Taiwan would not be Taiwan anymore.

A Leisurely Life

“How to have a leisurely life” is always most people’s dream. If we try to ask those people why they want to have this kind of life, they may tell you that they don’t satisfy their life now. Therefore, if we want to change our life styles, we need to find out the reasons why people don’t satisfy their life and some solutions of how to have a leisurely life.

The reasons may be separated into 2 different parts. The first one is that the physiological layer. In our society, people rich or not is an important problem. It means that if people don’t have enough money to live, they will get into a lot of troubles, because we use money to buy a lot of things what we need. So, if we want to solve this problem, the first thing we should try to do is that use our money in the “right” way. We need to decide some things we must buy now, and others we can buy later. Then, we can try to record the price of everything we cost. It may help us to control our money easily and understand what we cost everyday. Once we keep our money well, we may near the leisurely life.

The second part is the psychological layer. Most people don’t feel happy and their life bored. They don’t understand why they need to live so hardly, and even feel their lives are meaningless. At this time, we need to find out our life goals and try to do some work what we interested. Thus, even when we work, we still can feel fun from our job. Besides, we may try to open our heart to our family and good friends, once we get into troubles, they will try their best to help us, and you will not feel lonely all the time. In the free time, we should try to throw aside all the vexation, just enjoy our life. Once we can follow these ways, we may more near to reach the leisurely life.

Finally, we need to keep a good mood every moment as possible as we can. That’s because if we do so, we can always look things more optimistic. And then, we will not easily to feel frustrate when we do some difficult jobs. It also helpful for our interpersonal relationship, because other people may think you are kind and easy to get along with you, thus, when you need their help, they may give a hand to you.

Consequently, if we really want to have a leisurely life, we should change ourselves first, and then try to follow these ways to change the life style. Everyone may have a leisurely life in the future.