August 14th 2017 Week 33rd Monday

Life is like a watch, you can return to the starting point, they are not yesterday!

人生就像钟表，可以回到起点，却已不是昨天！

Weeks ago, I listened a song named "Yesterday" from the Netease-Cloud Music.

At the beginning, it is the song's melody that attracted me, but then I found its lyrics were more attractive and just fitted my mood very well.

The song goes as following, and I would like to present several lines of them:

I just don't love you, don't love you no more.

You, you are so yesterday.

I won't let you rain on my parade, I don't wanna hear a thing you say.

So, yesterday. Funny now how I have gone, I will light in your head came on.

Now you have realized this is all your fault.

Don't you wish you had a time machine, that way you could change history.

So, yesterday, so, yesterday.

It is absolutely impossible to have a time machine and go back to yesterday to correct the mistakes of the past.

Maybe the easiest way is to forget them and seize the present day tightly and press onto the great dreams and achievements of the future. 

 

Memory feeds imagination.

回忆是想象力的源泉。

From Amy Tan.

Tan, a surname with strong Chinese characteristic, so I guess Amy Tan must be an ethnic Chinese.

Quite right, Amy Tan is a Chinese American, more accurately, she is an American writer.

The most well-known one of her works may be the Joy Luck Club, a novel about the mother-daughter relationship and the Chinese-American experience, and the novel also was adpated into a film directed by Wayne Wang.

Though she has won several awards for her works, she also has received substantial criticisms for the contents and spirits in her books.

For example, some readers criticised her for the complicity in perpetuating racial stereotypes and misrepresentations as well as gross inaccuracies in recalling details of the Chinese cultural heritage.

Because most of her works told the stories with negative depiction of Chinese culture, many people think her of pandering to Western presumptions and prejudices about Chinese people.

It is easy to understand why her works often presented negative stories about Chinese culture, if taking consideration of the environments she was raised and she currently lives in.

To many second generation of Chinese-Americans, they grew up in a multi-cultural envrionments, and always encountered problems stemming from huge cultural differences and conflicts of value views between the mainstream of society and their families.

But almost all the differences can provide some benefits to their life experience and their growth as long as being settled properly.