| Jianshuo: Your parents' story was sad. However, for many many more people, their youth or lives were completed wasted. Taking my parents as example, when the culture revolution started, they just graduated from one of the top engineer schools and their careers just started to take off. Then came the political storm, for the next 10 years, they literally did not do much career wise, other than make some toys for me and one sofa for our home. (It was very popular to make your own sofa during that period of time if you work at factory.) I don't think my parents had never been forced to go to countryside or had no food to eat. However, from 25 to 35, their lives were wasted and in people's lives, how many 25 to 35 do you have? The saddest thing is that almost not only my parents had these experience, it happend amost to EVERYONE who lived in China during that period . Often times, I was thinking if my parents were given the same opportunity which I have, their lifes would have been very different. The sad stories were not only live with the people who died but also left the marks to the people who live thru it. Sorry, I really do not want to get your blog into any trouble, but I have to say "A country has to face her own history, otherwise the country can not make any progress (maybe economically but not humanistically) |
The Scar in People's Heart