Call Me Strawberry

Strawberry is a kind of fruit which is easy to get hurt. As everybody knows, strawberries cannot be pressed and put in an inappropriate environment. If you do so, strawberries would be rotten very soon. In Taiwan, people use strawberry to describe a person who cannot suffer pressure and adapt different environments. It seems like strawberry is a disparage word to describe some one. However, is that true?

In these days, the world change fast, and everybody should work harder than before to catch up the changing speed. Therefore people have to suffer more pressure to make themselves improve, otherwise they will be eliminated by times. These are thoughts of eastern people who afraid to lose to others since the day before world war two. At that moment, westerners were stronger than easterners, the former invented many weapons to conquer other countries of the latter. Easterners suffered not only pressure but also losing freedom from ruled by westerners, so easterners worked hard, trying to catch up even exceed westerners, in order to live in a comfortable life. There was only one country almost did so, it was Japan, but technically, they did not success.

In the eastern Asia, the thought of be better than others to live in a comfortable life has hand down to nowadays. People try to work very hard to exceed other so that they can live in a life of ruling others, not ruled by others. They think this kind of life is the greatest life. So, if you want to be better than others, you have to work harder. What if you want to be the best? Even working hardest cannot be proved to be the best. Some people worked very hard all of their life but cannot be the best. It tell us that being somebody is very difficult because somebody are only some of people can be. Therefore, to be the best is not the comfortable life for people to live.

Westerners found it hundred years ago, they raised up evolution of democracy fight for human rights after Industrial Revolution which is the time when people worked very hard. After the democracy evolution succeeded, people can live in a freedom, casual life. In Taiwan, people live in this kind of life will be called strawberry because they only do what they like, what they want. Most of people think that there is only work hard to catch up the advanced country, but they forget that why the advanced countries called advanced is because people in advanced countries have more human rights, and can do what they want, what they like in their countries, but work hard all days. The time of Industrial Revolution had passed, and the time of human rights has came. If you still only work hard, it will not help your country improve.

In my opinion, we cannot say strawberry is a disparage or praise word. It's just a word which symbols human right. Strawberry is expensive, rare, and not easy to plant, just like our life which is priceless, none is the same, and not easy to take.