Recently i've been reading the 三字经 (san zi jing). After reading so much on it. i have realised that the world was a nicer place in the past than what it is today.

人之初
性本善
性相近
习相远

Han Yu Pin Yin:

ren zhi chu
xing ben shan
xing xiang jin
xi xiang yuan

每一个人在刚出生的婴儿时期，本性都是善良的。这种善良纯洁的本性，人人都很接近，并没有谁有谁好，谁比较坏的差别。
但是，随着年龄的增长，每个人的学习环境和所学习的事物不同，有的人努力学习，愈来愈好；有的人却因为不好好学习而日渐堕落。因此，这种原本大家都想进的善良本性，就相差得愈来愈远了。

Translation:
Everyone single one of us who are born, right from the start when we were born, we were all compassionate being and inclined towards doing good. Everyone had almost the same level of compassion and good natured-ness.
However, as we grow up and become more old and mature, our learning environments change. Some of us strive hard for the best while some do not seize the opportunity and just become worse each day. Thus, the initial stage where everyone's state of good natured-ness and compassion has spilt apart and so have all our common good natured-ness and compassion which has slowly spilt apart.

yup. thats it for now. i just thought that i would like to share this bit of information. it really makes sense and sets oneself into self reflection.



weihan