Is This the Progress of Social Civilization?
I didn’t finish my story “A True Story ” yet , but I need a pause and there’s something I want to say . As I received bad news recently and I was so shocked by it , which made me think a lot . I had written a story about my aunt Fang, she was a traditional girl. But in this news what the girl did was very different. This also happened in the countryside but in this day and age: a guy named Liu fell in love with a girl Ying in high school, After they graduated, Ying received the admission notice from the university soon, her family couldn’t pay her school fees. Liu had heard of this, told her “Go, go to your university, No problem, I will take care of everything.” Then Ying did as she had told. After that, Liu sold vegetables by tricycle every day to afford Ying’s school fees. Five years later, Ying stayed in the big city after graduated from university, became a civil servant, and married an official who used to be her classmate of university. That news broke Liu’s heart. He pretended nothing had happened and married another girl. However three days later, he became a lunatic, walking along the road day by day……
I was so angry when I heard of this, how hard-hearted she was! How cruel she was! But when I thought it over and over again, I got confused, she was honest with Liu at least, if she married him as she didn’t love him anymore, which would ruin the feelings both of them. It might the difference between traditional girls and modern girls. Traditional girls just like my aunt Fang, They always endure silently no matter what happened to them, they don’t have the courage to change the things they can. But the modern girls are different, they live in the way they like, they marry the ones they love and divorce bravely when they have to, zero tolerance. Is this the progress of social civilization?
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Is This the Progress of Social Civilization?
I didn’t finish my story “A True Story,” yet, but I need a pause and there’s something I want to say . As I received bad news recently and I was so shocked by it, which made me think a lot. I had written a story about my Aunt Fang, she was a traditional girl. But in this news what the girl did was very different. This also happened in the countryside but in this day and age: a guy named Liu fell in love with a girl named Ying in high school. After they graduated, Ying soon received the admission notice from the university, but her family couldn’t pay her school fees. Liu had heard of this, and told her “Go, go to your university. No problem, I will take care of everything.” Then Ying did as he had told her. After that, Liu sold vegetables by tricycle every day to pay for Ying’s school fees. Five years later, Ying stayed in the big city after she graduated from (or, "after graduating from) the university, became a civil servant, and married an official who used to be her classmate in the university. That news broke Liu’s heart. He pretended nothing had happened and married another girl. However three days later, he became a lunatic, walking along the road day by day……
I was so angry when I heard of this, how hard-hearted she was! How cruel she was! But when I thought it over and over again, I got confused. She was honest with Liu at least, if she married him as she didn’t love him anymore, which would ruin the feelings of both of them. It might the difference between traditional girls and modern girls. Traditional girls just like my Aunt Fang, they always endure silently no matter what happened to them, they don’t have the courage to change the things they can. But the modern girls are different, they live in the way they like, they marry the ones they love and divorce bravely when they have to, zero tolerance. Is this the progress of social civilization?
Maybe after Liu had worked so hard for her, then she was finally honest with him. But either from the very beginning if she was never in love with him, or sometime along the way when she fell in love with someone else, from that point in time she lied to him for money. A betrayal that deep can hurt someone badly, and she knew she was doing that to him.
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Yes, sadly, sometimes it happens. Yet not all people are alike, and most of us are actually sweet, kind, caring and pure in heart. In any case, we don't just have the nasty aspects of humanity, but also the nice ones.
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Civilization is not progressing according to the Bible. Each person is seeking his own best interest or what they take pride in. A lack of caring about someones feelings is what we have done to God. He created us but we spend all our live seeking our best. We have lied, stolen, been greedy, hated and have put a hundred other things before God. Romans 5:8
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. NIV
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This story could happen everywhere, I consider her an immoral people. And this kind of people are everywhere. What she did was a disregard of the feelings of others, which made me feel totally sick.
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Apparently, Miss Ying failed to learn enough in the Chinese University to be able to progress to a Western country. Moreover, a Chinese vegetable merchant obviously is not permitted to progress his business into a Fortune 500 international corporation.
Western morality says that a charitable man gives from the heart without expectation of repayment or thank you. Moreover, Western morality allows a woman to marry according to the heart and to standards above barter and the marketplace.
This story truly is a disturbing portrait of the lack of social progress in China.
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