Thursday, June 26, 2008

the legacy is bigger than u think



The picture depicts a scene about people engaging in some sort of game. As there is a girl trying to throw an arrow like thing into the direction of a vase like standee, i therefore deduce that the objective of the game is to try and throw the arrow like thing into the vase like standee. The game should be quite hard as all of the vase like standee has no arrow like thing in it and that there are arrows all over the floor near the standee. This game had attracted mostly children and only a few adults thus this game is designed mainly for children. Morever, the adults are mostly standing further away from the foreground while children are standing nearer to the foreground. Also, given the look of the standee, i think that the equipment is not new but quite old as there seem to have some discolouration.
As we do not usually see this game being played in Singapore and that most people would deem this game as 'lame', thus i deduce that this game is not intended for children now but for those on the olden days where simplicity was the best. Children nowadays are too spoilt and pampered and that such mere toys would fail to entertain them.
This brings me to another topic which would be the generation gap between the young and old. The younger generation complains that the elderly are too old to keep up with the young while the elderly says that the youngsters nowadays are getting out of hands. However, i feel that the young and the old can co-exist together by letting half a step to each other. The youngsters instead of complaining about the old being slow and useless can teach them how to use the computer so as to allow them to keep up with society. The elders on the other hand can share life lessons with the youngsters as they had gone through sweet and bitter throughout their years down the road.
This picture thus give me the impression that the young and the old can live harmoniously and I'm sure this can happen in real live.
;D

1 comment:

Mr. Lee said...

7 / 12

There is no such word as "standee"; this makes your meaning unclear. Also, you did not describe the people's emotions and thoughts in sufficient detail. Lastly, your reflection needs to be linked more closely to your picture.