Power

Last week, when I was doing the exercises in Ms. Selina's Advanced English handouts, one of the articles inside captured my attention. Yea.. I even told myself: "Yeah~ Another thing to write in the blog \(^o^)/ "

The article brieftly explains power - power that holds people together. Power by means of the authority given, the physical force, the influences, the mind power or will, and even love. Power connects people as power would not appear in only one individual. There must be more than one for it to happen. For example, parents have authority on their child. If there's no son or daughter for the couple, where goes the power? And, with this authority power, children are "shaped" to obey their elder ones naturally, and this had made the parents and children connected in one way.
Now, understand? Do you see the relationship between power and connections of people?

In the article, the author mentioned that, "Power is evident when love is involved, for indiviudals behave against their will simply to pleased their loved ones." I believe that most of us would agree with this. And, I also believe that everyone of us would somehow have this experience where you need to give up or to do something in order to satisfy others, or I should use the word-compromise.

Here's my own one:
Before Sem2 starts, I gotta decide what electives to take for the sem. After taking all the consideration, I took Human Comm and Finite Maths as my choices. My father was happy to know that I took Maths as one of my electives, but it was the opposite for Human Comm. He had been a great influence on me for my studies. He would always plan and decide for me. This time, I had chosen a subject that did not please him. He always wanted me to study more on Science and Mathematics subjects. Obviously, this is not! I explained that I would like to try and hopefully it will help me to make up my mind wether to pursue Psychology for my future degree. Initially he tried to use the "authority power" to stop me from taking the subject, but after learning that I have no sign of changing my mind, out of love and respect, he finally stopped to pull me away from taking this sub.
It used to be an impossible as my father influence was truly so great that I always felt that what he says and instructs will be the best for me. I guess, when children grow, the authority power of the parents of them will decrease. Though I believe that the situation will be difficult for the parents as they no longer can control that much, but out of love, they will accept it as they know their children need to learn to be independent and to take the resposibility out of their acts.

There are a lot to be learned and observed from power. As mentioned in the article, it should be an influence that people should use wisely, and not in an unproductive and negative way.

So, do you now see how power connects people? *wink*

=Yin Foong=

Resource:

Exercise 6 of Coordination and Parallel Structure, Advanced English, Selina Nalini Richards.