I want to know something I can figure out
Now, I'm reading a book, The Private Life of Chairman Mao. This book was written by Dr. Li Zhisui, who was the Chinese ruler's personal physician. It's difficult to read because many persons appeared and many things were occurred. That's quite normal on historical issues though, I can't get used to tell many Chinese names apart... (I also guess it's hard for non-native Japanese to tell which Japanese name is for a male or a female.)
I'm very curious about kind of persons and their lives like Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot. You might think I was crazy. Yes, that definitely sounds right. But there are some reasons why I want to know inside of them. Because I can't understand them and their lives. In other words, I'm not interested in great persons so much, like mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Because I can admire and sympathize with this kind of persons and their lives, so I could figure it out easily even if I had a little information of them.
However about the formers, I haven't understood them yet. Why should they have lived such lives? Why did they have such merciless choices? For that reason I wrote "I'm very curious about kind of persons and their lives". I want to know why they went on their harsh paths. It's quite easy to blame them though, I suppose we can learn more constructive from errors in the past .
I personally think it's important to know dark sides of a person. Light sides of a person could make you comfort and optimistic, but I supposed it would be more important to face negative feelings inside of one and heal them if possible. By that means I want to know them.
I'm very curious about kind of persons and their lives like Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot. You might think I was crazy. Yes, that definitely sounds right. But there are some reasons why I want to know inside of them. Because I can't understand them and their lives. In other words, I'm not interested in great persons so much, like mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Because I can admire and sympathize with this kind of persons and their lives, so I could figure it out easily even if I had a little information of them.
However about the formers, I haven't understood them yet. Why should they have lived such lives? Why did they have such merciless choices? For that reason I wrote "I'm very curious about kind of persons and their lives". I want to know why they went on their harsh paths. It's quite easy to blame them though, I suppose we can learn more constructive from errors in the past .
I personally think it's important to know dark sides of a person. Light sides of a person could make you comfort and optimistic, but I supposed it would be more important to face negative feelings inside of one and heal them if possible. By that means I want to know them.