The body- after reading all

 The body, which is also known as the movie “Stand by me” is basically about four kids experiencing a journey to find a dead body. They start from the town, then across the fields and pass the garbage field, into the forest, across the river and so on. These kids overcome their hardships and grow up during the adventure.

 First, Gordie’s brother Dennis died in a car accident. Also, his parents did not care enough for him that he even felt like an invisible man. During the journey, Gordie overcomes his fear of death by confronting the corpse itself and also cures the scar from lack of interest through friendship, mainly with Chris.

 Second, Chris was born in a quite bad environment. His family was somewhat not that good. It influenced him further in the town. When something bad happened, everyone assumed that Chris was related to it, just thinking about his family. When the milk money disappeared from his school, everyone assumed that it was Chris who took it. Even though it was true, Chris was hurt by other people’s assumptions.

 Finally, Teddy has a nearly mad father who put Teddy’s ear to the stove and nearly roasted it. However, Teddy still loves his father dearly and goes furious if someone is disrespectful to his father. In the story, he kind of learns to contain himself when the guard of the junkyard insults his father.

 We all grow up overcoming hardships and every time, it is really hard for us to endure the process. As shown in the novel, we should endure and grow up. 

Science Kills Wonder?

 This is a speech by Robin Ince, discussing about whether science kills wonder. In other words, does science deplete the wonders in this world? My answer to this question is no and so is the speaker.

 Even though science technology has enhanced immensely over the past few centuries, there are still parts of this world that predecessors of science were not able to explain. Basically, because there are so many parts that science could not cover, we could yet find wonders over the boundaries of science. For instance, we still do not know why cancer occurs, but just the process of it and the hypothetical cause. Learning more and more about these would certainly give us wonder and since there are more than enough for us to research and find out about this world, we could half assume and half believe that science is indifferent with wonders.

 There’s more. Does the fact that a punch is a mere momentum with a cluster of cells lessen the pain when it lands on your face? No! Instead of talking about momentum or animated beings called cells, you say “AW” and spit out a teeth and some blood, assuaging your marred jaw. Knowing why things happen does not reduce the wonder of itself. Snow could exemplify this case very well. We know why snow falls but when we watch snow, we do not say that particles of H2O are falling in a solid state. Instead, we say “Wow it’s beautiful.” Finding out more about things does not make them any less authentic or pedestrian.

 Science and wonder, these two concepts aren’t quite different. Science isn’t just a tedious job Wonderful things are as closely related to science as pizza and cheese. We could not separate them from one another and get rid of the biased view: science and wonder are the opposite. 

10 years later

November 26^th. 2021

 These days, I started to think about the past. Where was I before ten years? Probably I was at high school, doing tons of things.

 Today was, as usual, exciting and fun. My project of earning three billion won in five years, have failed, but still I earned some of it and it took about five more years until now. Since I started that project about ten years ago, finally I came near the end. Thanks to this money, I do not have to work that hard. I do what I want to do and live every day without planning things. Today, I went to Jeju Island for scuba diving with J ate lunch at a restaurant we first saw and then went to the airport to catch this plane heading for Bali, Indonesia. After I’ve been to Bali when I was 17, I’ve always wanted to go there again. Now I’m in the plane, thinking about the restaurants I’ve been last time I went there. I think it’s time for some movies and then, sleep. I’m really happy at the moment and J keeps telling me to stop writing that stupid diary. Think it’s time for me to listen to my girlfriend.

 Maybe this diary is a little hard to understand. Ten years ago, I set a goal to earn three billion won in five years because if you have that much money, you could live without work for the rest of your life. So, I started to everything I could: designing warmer structure of clothes, trying to build a company of my own and some inventions. In five years, I earned one third of the goal and went to a person I have always missed. She came back to my side and ever since, I’ve been going places we have talked about and doing things we have wished to do. Having J back, becoming a CEO and earning three billion let me think myself as a happy and proud man.