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30 Oct 2008

paper with black spot analogy


Today, i learned a lot from my character building class,,,

The most important thing here is when my lecture show a white plain paper with a big black spot in the center of it, then she asked what did we think about this paper. A lot of sound of people shouting their opinion out to the lecture, they mention a lot of thing, one said a Japanese flag in black and white color, there another said that it is a mole, i myself saw this as a hole. Then, she ask us to write down our strength and our weakness.

She was explaining the meaning of this all, first she ask us what part is the easiest, when writing down our strength or our weakness. And almost all the class said that the good one is rather difficult to write down. Then she told us that this is the same as the paper, the paper is big, but how come we were only paid attention on the black spot in the center of it? "this is a paper, with only a small spot which size is nothing compared to the size of the paper. Just like yourself, you are now can only see clearly your weakness, in fact, your weakness is nothing compared to your strength, so why didn't us forget our weakness and develop as far as possible the strength we had?"

This statement and the analogy she took was very good and inspiring. But somehow, there's a lot of questions coming into my mind, why did all my class mate paid attention only at the black spot not the paper? There of course something with it, then this statement coming into my mind, "because it is the center of interest." It seems very normal that people will pay a lot attention at the black spot rather than the paper itself.

With this analogy, i thought a very dangerous condition, if white considered as our strength, then black considered as our weakness, then the white will difficultly erase the black, while the black will easily erase the white. This thought was coming from coloring, when we are coloring black above white, the white will completely covered and became black, in other hand, when coloring black with white, we can only get grey, no matter how hard we are trying to color it.

Isn't it dangerous? don't let the black spread out wide okay...

4 comments:

  1. gw dari dulu pngen ikut kelas ini lohh...character building..

    menurut gw menarik aja...
    dan bener kann,,menarikk!!

    emank orang2 sebagian besar seperti itu...
    gampang aja kl mo ambil contoh,,biasanya kl orang buat salah dikit, kesalahannya lebih diinget drpd kebaikkannya...hahaha...

    sulitnya idup!!^^


    -wEnZ-

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  2. Hmm, how if it is only a white plain paper (according to what you've said, it is all strength).
    What's so interesting about palin white paper ? Who would pay attention to a plain paper but someone who wants to scratch it ? Isn't a colorful paper is more attractive ? And this life is not as simple as black and white, or grey rite ^^ ?

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  3. @ .Wenz.
    menarik sin menarik, tapi susah banget dapet nilai A...

    @ Eterna
    Yes, actually life is never that simple...
    since this just an analogy, we assume that life is that simple. It's an interesting analogy if the paper is all white, there's no point of interest in the paper. This can be the possible reason for weakness as strength. And i think, there's no one in this world lucky enough to have the paper all white.
    hahahaha
    Just like the life itself, there always happiness and sorrow, it's impossible if someone have only one of them.

    Thx for all

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  4. ^^
    The ones who only have happiness are not as happy as they seemed.
    We couldn't know the real happiness without knowing sorrow though. Just like the plain paper. haha

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