Maung Thar Cho - Imagination

Meaning idea

( one)

My life has no meaning. Your life has meaning. I don't understand the meaning you're talking about. Don't talk about meaningless things. Don't do meaningless work. Meaningless people. Oh... The voices we hear from time to time in the eternal social machinery. Meaning. It's so vague, like a winter dream.

From the perspective of each person, there are many different ways to express their thoughts, opinions, and ideas about the meaning of life. Life is a sacrifice. Life is a gain. Life is a struggle. Life is survival. Life is suffering. Life is longing. I don't know which definition is closest to the truth. I once asked two famous writers about whether life has meaning or not. Their answers were:

The truth is... life doesn't have any meaning. We have to make it our own and make it meaningful. As the poet Daung Nwe Swe wrote in his poem "The Last Train".

Find beauty.

Where can I find it?

One day, it's time.

I heard a loud cry.

The train is moving.

It's like that.

As the world-famous writer Ernest Hemingway wrote in his novel The Old Man and the Sea , Santiago, an old man, catches a giant fish in the ocean. After a fight between the fish and the man, the fish is reduced to bones when it returns to the shore. In the end, it's nothing.

But man is a creature that makes sense of itself during the fifty to one hundred years it has been allowed to exist. The ways in which it makes sense of itself are also varied.

( 2 years)

If you were to ask Miss Wangri Maathi, who has now passed away from cancer and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004, what would you say? She was a Kenyan woman who planted over three million trees. To cool the world. Isn't that what she did to make it meaningful?

Mother Teresa, a Yugoslav , is a world-famous woman. 71 countries, 350 refugee camps, 146 homes in India alone. The poor, the hungry, the needy, the homeless. The orphans, the abandoned. She gave her life for the innocent and the needy in the world. Isn't that what she did to make her life meaningful?

World-famous computer entrepreneur Bill Gates (Bill Gates) Bill Gates, who has been the richest man in the world for more than ten years. Number one billionaire Bill Gates. What does he do with his wealth? Fighting poverty. Fighting AIDS. The way he owns billions of money makes sense.

Isn't the life of General Aung San, who gave his life for Myanmar, and the life of Mahatma Gandhi, who gave his life for India, meaningless? Isn't the life of Nelson Mandela, who gave his life in prison for the equality of blacks and whites, meaningless?

Just because someone says things like that, does life have meaning only if they are famous?

How can we describe U Ngwe, a rickshaw driver and father of seven daughters in Mandalay, who has planted over 500 trees? A young man carrying a corpse in a funeral home, a volunteer teacher teaching orphans, a student at a charity university telling stories about children in pain at a children's hospital... Oh, that makes sense.

( three)

A person can conceive a meaningful idea. Then... they can implement that idea. Then they become a meaningful person.

What are you thinking right now? Based on that, the answer will be whether or not you are a meaningful person.

Now... let's get moving, my dear.

Imagination

When Idea magazine asked me to write about what was on my mind, I applied. When I said "Idea," the word "idea" came to my mind, and I wrote short stories combining ideas with other things.

Serious readers should forgive the light-hearted ideas. This small book has been arranged by removing some of the redundant ideas due to memory lapses.

They can read my sweet messages and imagine going all the way to the north.

Maung Thar Cho, Yangon.

Heroic idea

( one)

If you were to ask me what I want to be, I would ask you with a little literary tone, what is your dream? If you were to ask me with a little literary tone, I would ask you what is your crazy thing?

This is a question that concerns every young person. It is a question that should concern everyone. This question may be asked by someone else, or it may be asked by yourself. Others ask, and you ask yourself, and those who do not encounter or experience this kind of question cannot have a full future.

The person reading this has probably encountered this question before.

( 2 years)

There are many words related to the question of what you want to be: Hero . Self-image . Model . Role Model . Ideal Character .

No matter how many different words you use, the bottom line is what you want to happen.

A person wants to be someone. Someone can be in any field. A philanthropist like Mother Teresa, a politician like Thakin Aung San, a scientist like Albert Einstein , a poet like Thakin Pentaw Hmoy, a writer like Bhamo Tin Aung, a musician like Myo Ma Nyein, a painter like Vincent Van Gogh, a computer tycoon like Bill Gates, a movie star like Charlie Chaplin.

Since I'm talking like this, I have to ask myself, is this a person who is going to be admired by the famous? No, there are many things that ordinary people want to be like. Some people admire their father, some admire their teacher, some admire their friend, some admire their monk, some admire their official.

Having a crush on someone is a goal that guides a young person to where they are going. A young person who doesn't have a crush on anyone is a young person who will never get anywhere. He doesn't know where he is going, so when he walks randomly, he always ends up in a random place. | A person can think about what he wants to be.

( three)

The idea of ​​what one wants to be is often imaginative when one is young, but becomes practical as one grows up.

Wanting to be a superhero like Superman or Spider-Man who fights evil and saves good is a fantasy. Wanting to be General Aung San or Lord Buddha is a reality.

The important thing is light and darkness. To go out into the darkness and make people feel bad. To not be like, "I want to be Dasgiri." "I want to be Devadatta." "I want to be Hitler."

When we think about what we want to be, there are two types: the ideal and the possible. The ideal is called the preferable future. A person who has been close to books and literature since childhood, and is good at reading and studying, thinks about making a living from literature. It is called the possibility. The possible is called the possible future. A person who gets into medical school thinks about becoming a specialist.

People can substitute their dreams and imaginations. For example, I love singing. My voice is not good. So, can't I become a successful songwriter or an instrumentalist? Let's say I'm interested in the world of cinema. My looks aren't good enough to be an actor. Can't I become a director or a screenwriter? Even if a person doesn't have the opportunity to imagine something directly, they can imagine it indirectly.

( four)

Now, readers, have you ever been asked what you want to be? Or have you ever asked yourself the same question? There is an answer. Don't know what you want to be? Don't want to be anything? If so, relax. A person who has no idea of ​​what to do with anyone has no chance of becoming anything.