言西早

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

I love you






To say "I love you" is hard for many people, especially Chinese. Chinese are more reserved from telling their emotion. We try to keep everything inside. Unlike most of the Caucasians who are more open to tell and share their feelings. In my workplace, I can hear my colleagues say so to her family over the phone from time to time. They also use many sweet words like sweetie, honey, I love you, I miss you, etc. For me, I never say "I love you" to my mom, dad or brother & sister. Where I hear "LOVE" more is from the Holy Bible. It is also where I start to learn to love and sacrifice. And it is a lifelong learning.

To say "I love you" in Chinese 我 愛 你 is even rare. So odd! On the other hand, to write "I love you" is easier than to say; and to say is easier than to do! I can say I love all my cell members last year as I really enjoyed to have them in my group. As brother & sister in Christ, I love you all as individual no matter what personalities you have. That is "big love". When you love the persons, you care about them. And that is the action.

"Ho peng yau" sometimes said "I love you" at the ending over the phone. Did he need courage to say so? Does everyone need courage to say that?Sometimes, I want to ask the question face to face "Do you love me?" Then I think it is quite a silly question. Why I need to ask! As Helen Keller said, "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... But are felt in the heart."

4 Comments:

  • Totally agree with you.

    By Blogger StoryBox2, at 12:50 AM  

  • oh... but i ask my mom every week when i was a kid.....

    By Blogger mandy, at 8:01 PM  

  • good for you; how about now as an "adult"?

    By Blogger 言西早, at 11:43 AM  

  • i find it's getting hard to ask when i grow "older".. coz i m afraid of rejection. n i m afraid they'll say, "i dunno".... plus, do i believe that if that person say "yes"?

    By Blogger mandy, at 11:28 AM  

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