Now, it’s the time we are all waiting for; without further adieu, could you share with us your enlightenment ? I assume that you guys indeed lose some sleep on that and did not cheat your answer in any fashion and shape. :)
As you know a promise is a promise, I’ll give mine in detail as well.
For those new friends who think they have their answer long time ago, you are more than welcome to contribute, too. :))
Please permit me to clarify the requirements
a bit in case there is some confusion to submit your answer:
1. The question that you are
being asked is an open-ended one, you can give a one word version of answer or
lengthy one, it’s up to you. Personally, I prefer you would share your rationales behind
your answer with us.
2. There is no correct or wrong
answer. In other words, this is not a beauty or “pissing”(excuse my French :)) contest, every participant’s answer is a great one.
In addition, your answer can be tangible or intangible.
3. If it is possible, please
give some detailed descriptions about how and why you have derived your answer that way.
4. The identical answer is
perfectly fine. I assume you have heard of the idiom “Great minds think alike.”
However, if your supporting reasons/arguments and wordings are identical with
someone else, then that might be an issue. :(
5. The deadline for submitting
is by the midnight of the fifteenth day of CNY month.
6. If you think that your answers
could be better understood if it’d be accompanied with a photo or a song
or both, please do that by all means.
7. All answers are considered
with equal weight, period.
8. I know you guys are “the greedy
bunch”, sorry guys, one person one answer, and no one is above the law.:)
9. When deadline passed, all
the entries received will be put together as a special edition of peice to
commemorate our life 2011-2012 – a time capsule if you will.
10.You may submit your answer
with your thoughts as comments in my blog or send your entry to my qqh. BTW, procrastination
is not recommended and comparing thoughts with your fellow friends are highly
discouraged. :)
Note: Photo comes from net.
Thank you for taking quite a long time to turn in your deliberation. Hopefully the jury would clear you of all guilty charges. :))
My answer is very simple and has only one word.
Love
In the meantime, please forgive me for not express my personal thoughts on your responses as I strongly believe that I should maintain a fair and impartial stance without misleading anyone in any way.
Once again, you'd like you to know that each and every contribution (short or long ) from you and others are highly valued and equally appreciated.
在此仅借纵然君的博客之地，谢谢小虎哥，飘尘诗人，五速兄，和清风君！～～
受纵然君之托，我想看看我的朋友们对他提出的＂what is the most invaluable thing in your life？＂这个人生问题有什么见解和看法。我想，因为他这里好象没有voices from the other half of the Universe，所以我就试着看看能不能请你们几位（还有几位没冒泡的，已交了或正在做＂家庭作业＂的蓝筒子～～）说一说你们的看法。。。非常感谢你们花时间参加这个讨论。。。
我非常喜欢你们每个人的说法，小虎哥对人最基本的满足欲的概况描述；飘尘诗人对弘扬美好的追求；五速兄对成功和做人原则准绳的理性分析；清风君对人性身心健康的深刻解译。。。都非常精辟非常精彩。。。
再一次，谢谢你们！～～
Thank you for taking time to think through your choice and give your backing as well.
Yes, you did not cheat at all. in fact, you are very honest and diligent.
Only one answer,give some detailed descriptions about how and why.
Wow, 九月转来的纵然君的作业难度不底啊。这两天脑海里在7，8个选象中取舍（生命，时间，爱，健康，信仰。。。）。 难到就没有一个能包括全部的选象吗？哈哈，想出来了， 我选：身心健康分布系数， 我把它叫身体加心理的非线性组合值。
身体健康是基本的，如果有残疾，心理健康很高的话， 可以弥补，如霍金。
身体健康，而心理不健康，系数值绝对很低。如四肢发达，满脑子坏水的人，生命和时间对他毫无意义， 生不如死。
心理健康包括我能想到的所有美好,如：珍惜时间， 爱人，爱己，爱美，感恩。。。
次系数越高越好，每个人都不一样。
具体计算次系数? 请参考九月，纵然的博文， 均有详细科学论术。
哈哈， 九月，纵然， 我没有cheating 啊！我的选象就是一个：the most invaluable thing in the world is:追求自己最高的身心健康分布系数
AJ, that is what I am expecting, fiat lux!
It seems that you have given some serious thoughts to the essence of life, no wonder you are ahead of curve in terms of success. :)
Do you know , in some aspect, you and I have something in common: That is to push your blog partner out of her comforting zone to face the challenges and make a difference to this world even she sometimes “cries out” for help without knowing the backings that have been already in place.
Jeez, Can our poet stop for a moment without writing a poem ? You give me too much pressure for coming up some catchy phrases. :) That being said, your comments constantly remind us the beauties of the rhyme, sound and imagery in this wonderful world we live. Keep up with your good work, though, let the creative juice flow. :)
Appreciate your well-wish.
Dude, please don’t be so nervous, your answer is as great as any contributor’s one, that’s given. BTW, in my blog, people can say whatever are on their minds. Unlike at your home, you may have to be skillful to bypass those possible “minefields”. For instance, if your wife asks you a “tricky” question, you might have to be extremely careful for the answer you’d come up. Otherwise, "wrong" answer may get you in trouble. :) Fortunately, you are safe here. Thank you for constant tiger-powered support! :)
hehe , ok, i'll see what I can come up with...
而如果我必须从这四条中选择一条的话,那么我以为"坚定的理想信念"当是最珍贵最不能失去的. "坚定的理想信念"是履行使命，达到目标的精神动力，是立身做人的精神支柱。
信念能助人克服困难，战胜挫折，向既定的目标顽强努力，向更高的目标继续忠实前进; 信念也能使人在受到威胁遇到困境时,不放弃自己的做事做人准绳,做一个顶天立地无愧自己良心的人.
With the above said,inevitably,the word "satisfaction" comes to my mind. Everyone's wants and needs are different,hence,the most invaluable thing in my life is "to be satisfied,to know how to appreciate what I have in my hand",it could be all gone by tomorrow.
Am I flunking the test,纵然和九月? 呵呵~
Please don’t worry about it, continue enjoying watching the exciting matches at Australian Open - a wonderful tournament with many surprises.
But, you do need to get some good sleep though, otherwise, you may not be able to focus.
Thank your very much for taking time to reply.
纵然你好
我这一周半是成了昼伏夜出的野兽了！！
这不刚刚看完一场5盘大战，历时5小时10分钟。。。的澳网半决赛，是从半夜3：30开始。。。到现在8点40分～～～～
哈哈，自己都不相信能坚持
天天如此。。。
哇。比赛太精彩了。。。很累很开心（不过最近太缺睡啦～～～）
不好意思
感觉时间太不够用了，总是觉得有许多没来得及做的事情，所以怀着十分歉疚的心情，我才认为世界上时间这看不见摸不着的东西，真是价值连城啊无法估算的，你们说呢？
向你的勤奋学习，其实你每个帖我都悄悄来学习过
嗬嗬
我要去睡了，现在是早上九点）））
Appreciate your CNY greetings. Now please let me give my best wishes to you and your family: May you and your family have an enriching and joyful year in 2012!
I am assuming you have had your favorite dish/soup already as the "pre-painkiller". Can I say few words about your comments without hurting your feelings ? :)
Wow, I was a bit “stunned” by the smoothness and powerfulness in the two way communications embedded in your single comment piece, on top of that, the self-bashing was funny as well.
Thank you very much for your contribution and enlightenment with the backings, please feel free to add on more reasons before the due day as you see fit.
AJ, thanks a lot for your contribution. Hope that if it’s not too much trouble to you, please add some “meaty chucks” to the “soup”. The due day is 15 days away.
Thank you very much for your contribution and enlightenment. Please feel free to add more reasons before the due day if you feel like it. :)
You are a well-versed writer and an experienced and seasoned “fighter” with unusual endurance. If you’d set an example to provide the hard and hush truth without a suffice explanation, I am afraid that the lights in this city might be dimmed for days and months to come. :) Please don’t let my scare tactic to make you uncomfortable, I am kidding you. On the other hands, I need your reasons and why. :)
Thank you for delivering your answer in my backyard, appreciated!
Here is my thinking: Granted, each of us is a different and unique being in granular level, but in the larger scale, we’d share many similarities, like it or not. Yes, the world we live is full of fake products and phony characters, yet our fate, personalities, and values we are holding onto often enable us to grab the most important thing or belief albeit all these odds or tide that we maybe have to deal with or face. In other words, our answers should the reflections/snapshots of what our priorities and wants would be at a specific time frame. It is my hope, for a short moment, we'd stay away from the group-thinking, and each of us is able to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth without any shame or contrition.
Again, thank you for your thoughtful comments and happy CNY to you and your family!
At this moment, the answer for me is: "To Know oneSELF"
If one knows oneSELF fully, one will be a fully awakened soul, and will behave differently, at a much higher consciousness contributing to PEACE, at personal, social and planetary levels.
Thank you 縱然君 for posting this thought provoking article, as you always do.
And thanks to your replies to my comments on your Maple Tree Story in 九月’s blog. I am glad to hear that you are recovered anew :)
There is no better occasion to say hi to you in your own “backyard”, and wish you all the best for this special year of the Dragon.
May all your dreams come true :)
春节好
给这儿所有的朋友！！
later:life
now: Jesus
I know I won't be widely understood but at least my friends will allow me to be different:)
请纵大才子高抬贵手笔下留人，要处置务必等我吃喝完了腌炖鲜过完了年，OK? (如果我改用"就OK了"，是不是能够增加点官腔? 让大家也仰视我半秒钟?)
上面的不成东西的东西都是我的马甲写的, 我的马甲说中文写中文，我是只说英文，中文装听不懂的主。纵大才子不要误会，我绝对没有别的意思。我的马甲老是喜欢自作聪明自鸣得意地乱开玩笑，同时还不许别人开她和她马甲的玩笑。只可惜我英文水平太差达不到挥洒自如开玩笑的境界，我的马甲很是看不起我。
今晚借纵大才子的风水宝地给大家拜年，同时虚晃一枪大方一记，红包每人一个，还可以多要。我的马甲大家鼓励多吃多占的。
Thank you for inviting me. :)
There are a list of things that are important to me: my own health, my family's wellbeing, knowledge, financial security, and so on.
However, I could have everything there is to have yet feel utterly unhappy at the same time.
Therefore, I believe that ability to understand --- "Happiness is a state of mind" is the most invaluable thing in the world. I call it my third eye. When I open my third eye, I start to see, to feel content.
...... Have a wonderful weekend. & Happy Chinese New Year!
“我是不是比较贪哈” Hmm ... absolutely! :) You are very “greedy, indeed. Well, who doesn’t ! :) Those goodies you favored are really priceless to a large extent. I am fascinated by your reasons for which you pick former when pitting life against love. Can you elaborate a bit on that please ?
I know the pain to lose your beloved father was insurmountable, and apparently, the lingering grief still tortures you time to time. I certainly can feel you suffering from intellectual level not physical one. Honestly speaking, I am not sure what I am going to do if it’d happen to me. Recently, I mentioned my fears to one of my close friends: If one day I’d lose my father, mother, grandpa and grandma, I am afraid that my whole world would just collapse. Anyway, it’s CNY time, let’s ditch this kind of sentimental thingies.
BTW, no, your answer did not disappoint me at all, First of all, this’s an open-ended question, and secondly there is no right or wrong answer. Third, we are, pretty much, the products shaped by many attributes including our personal experiences.
Thank you very much for taking time to deliver your answer in timely fashion, and if it’s possible, please give us an more detailed version. I will give the more detailed reqs for people to reference.
I am sorry to ask you to hold your answer for almost a year. :) For that, please forgive me.
Jeeze, I couldn't believe it! another greedy one? :)I don’t blame you; it seems that you want to grab all of the goodies that life can offer. Can you make your mind to pick just one ?
It is my plan: by the fifteenth day of CNY month, I’ll post the answers from all the contributors. Then, we will see how people prioritize their life values and beliefs. It should be an interesting survey to look at it even the number of participants might be small.
Do you realize that as a later entrant, you somehow have to pay a “late fee” to join us? Please don’t be panic, I am sure you will be ok after my explanation. This is what you are going to do, you’ll be required to submit your answer with some of your thoughts over your pick (in English or Chinese ). Hopefully your enlightenment would be able to allow us to take a peek into your brain. :)
Please don’t be a quitter or deserter, okay ? I have full confidence in you. It should be just as easy as a piece of “C cake” for you after all those tough situations you have weathered.
You are getting smarter and brighter every single day :)) (you have been always intelligent lady, okay?) , FYI, every picture or every song I put on in my blog has some reasons and meanings embedded in it, it’s a puzzle or “trap” depending whom you ask. The best approach is to eat the “bait” without swallowing the “hook” :)
Thanks you a lot for being a superb speed messenger, hopefully none of recipients would “kill” the messenger. In the meantime, let’s hope we have some really good responses from our friends. Nevertheless, JIC people are afraid of giving their “secret” away, we should respect their choices as well.
For the silver piece you demanded, Let’s see what we can work out some kind of alternatives. BTW, I remember the elders should give the red packets to the youngsters in CNY as the tradition in the city I came from, not vise versa. Can you tell, I am dodging the payout. :)
And I am sorry to tell you that you need to rework your reasons a bit in order to pass the "inspection". As you know I have high expectation on you.
Hey,I got your point.:) Please don’t worry about it, it’s just some kind of misunderstanding between us; there no hard feelings from my side. Let’s move on.:)
Please allow me to change a subject, I posted a question to many net friend last year. I am wondering if you’d like to give a shot, sharing your insight with us.
Thx in advance.
要我说，世上无价的东西很多，（我是不是比较贪哈~~）爱情、亲情、健康都是无价的...
如果只能说一样，那我觉得还是生命最无价。
我肯定不会说“生命诚可贵，爱情价更高”的~~
纵然，这个回答会不会让你失望呢？呵呵。
回复九月: 嘿嘿，这里只有看官，没有裁判，暂时。 有答必赏，纵然说的。
但注意切题哈，“the most invaluable thing”，单数！ 然后再添油加醋，这是我的理解，罢了~~ 晚安！
Ok, 刚学了把雷锋，做好事，送鸡毛信，特此前来禀报和领取表扬~~~
有几个类似俺这么自投罗网的银，就不晓得了，俺作业和额外差事已完成了。
哦，选图很赞，曲径通幽，可也难说，前面兴许就是片海市蜃楼，空中楼阁 :))
苏姐姐,I didn't want to answer,but didn't want to disappoint yours "期待看到更多的不同回答，见仁见智，不必多虑哈~~"
Now I really need to go have some good night sleep (at this moment,sleep is the most invaluable thing in my life~~~)
"the most invaluable thing in the world", I first thought about the word LOVE(as you might try to hint/trick us with this attached song~~) when I first saw your raised the question. Now my answer to it turned out to be a different one after a short year :))
To me, TIME is the most invaluable thing in the world。 Because "Time, your grace. Of all losses, time is the most irrecuperable for it can never be redeemed." --- King Henry VIII
再便是孩子，因为孩子是我们人类的希望。 而爱孩子，也莫过于给他们时间，失去了跟孩子在一道的时间，是任何东西都难以弥补的。
谢谢纵然的“旧话新题”。 也期待看到更多的不同回答，见仁见智，不必多虑哈~~