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A Stark Contrast

933 views. 2012-11-14 11:24

It does not lack of beauties in our everyday lives, problem is, we don’t heed it at all. Several days ago, I attended a wedding ceremony of the son of my colleague at 16:00pm. Now it is a hot season for lovers to swamp into the gate of marriage and my weekends are almost occupied by such social activity. I am tired of taking part in such kind of ceremony. All the ceremonies are of the same. But the wedding ceremony of yesterday I attended was different.  First, it is a low-profile one. There were no traditional limousines and fireworks though my colleague is a division director. Second, a colleague of my work unite served as the master of ceremonies.  When I pass trough the gate of the hall, a short disabled women standing near the door attracted my attention. She is hunchbacked and at a height of 1.4 meter though her wrinkled face showed her real age of about 50s. A big Canon camera hanged over her neck. She was the only photographer of the ceremony.  

After I seated myself in a chair, I opened a little colorful box seemed to be a tiny candy box. To my surprise, I saw a bead-weaved apple above the candy. The apple is about four centimeters high and looks so vivid with two pieces of light green leaves near a stem of it. Other people also were interesting of this handicraft. “Who’s Idea?” I asked, a friend pointed to the women with a camera I saw just now. It turned out that the woman is the sister of my colleague. She honed her skills in making handicrafts with beads and thread. These exquisite things he made are sold well and this helps her lot to improve her living conditions. She doesn’t stop there by imparting the skills to other disabled people. On hearing of this, I felt I was a dwarf before her. In fact, every people can change its live by its hands. Life is just  like a dormant volcano where huge energy is lurking under its surface. It will erupt only if there is an additional pressure.  The disabled body, together with the disdaining eyes of others, served as the necessary pressure on the trigger of the plain woman’s life. She is great. I think she is the same great legend as Forest Gump.

Post comment Comment (5 replies)

Reply moli 2012-11-14 12:03
She is living a meaningful life, and we should learn from her.
Reply sunnyv 2012-11-14 14:37
Wedding ceremonies should be warm, simple, homely and memorable. I don't understand why is it necessary to have all those pomp or eclat.   Recently here in Hong Kong, a girl invited friends and then stated on her blog that the minimum gift cheque must not be less than 1000, otherwise, you are not welcome. The result was a barrage of rebuke and protests and very few people attended the party. Everyone wondered whether she is out to make money or really inviting friends to congratulate her. Furthermore, she is insulting friends by weighing them according to their payment. This is crazy.

I have attended numerous wedding receptions and I don't remember many of them. The only ones I remember are those which are simple and friendly.
Reply liudongming 2012-11-14 15:30
sunnyv: Wedding ceremonies should be warm, simple, homely and memorable. I don't understand why is it necessary to have all those pomp or eclat.   Recently he
I have the same felling with you. In fact, I think wedding ceremony culture  has  the same  cycle with global economy.  When the whole economy is on its apogee, the wedding ceremonies are becoming pompous and left the real meaning of ceremony behind. But I think this is some kind of inflation existed in Wedding ceremony. The trend can't be sustainble. All will go back to its starting line. Frugal  and pragmatic wedding ceremony will has its hey day.
Reply cestlavie 2012-11-14 17:18
a great person she is..
Reply JMZ 2012-11-14 21:22
I think she must know the meaning of her life~~I admire her from head to foot~~

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