星期二, 10月 10, 2006

Little Mermaid

I was reading a story called the "Little Mermaid". The original of the story was quite a different from today. She didn't lose her pleasant sound. On the other hand, she can sing the most melodious tune in the world. Despite opposition to her relationship, she chose to be a mortal and lived in man's world. Therefore, she had a deal with devil. She drank a bottle of medicine that a wizard made, and then her fins were turned into human legs. However, every time she walked she had to endure a pain that felt like knives under her feet. In addition, the wizard told to her if the prince betrayed her in the future, he would be died instead. Without a second thought, she agreed with her request. Because she thought it was an idealistic world, and she didn't know what betrayal, greed, and indifference meant in her little aqua-world.
People should use a sincere heart to treat everyone, she believed, so she still kept a pure heart with spiritual soul. She used her way and faithful heart to love him, because she did not care status, fortune, wealth and etiquette as humans did. However, she died in the end; she used her life to save the prince's life, even though he betrayed her. I think it is a pretty sad story. Why do people become so complicated as the society changes? The human heart seems not to have purity. Is it the world full of traps that should be seen as something to fear?
Maybe, the environment forces us to be strong to protect ourselves.

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