My Favourite Quotation...

"Man is half dust, half deity, alike unfit to sink or soar."

--- Byron (the drama 'Manfred')

Human beings are indeed sacred yet vile.
We own empathy upon the weak yet we show greediness upon those benefits.

There are people and philanthropists who help the world,
and there are politicians, careerists and enterprisers who push the world to the edge of horror and wars.

There are people who take advantages of the title "philanthropists" to achieve the goal of "fame laundry,"
and there are people who truly dedicate themselves to charities with the humblest hearts.

Dust and deity,
just like the broadness of the earth and the vault of sky,
we as human beings are too weak, too minute to compete.

We are Icarus.
We take on our invention and think we can escape the maze of nature.
We soar highly with arrogance, and we fall deeply with remorse and the eager to seek salvation.

We are unfit to sink because our mercy, empathy elevates us to the definition of "human."
We expect ourselves to be wise and farseeing.
We expect ourselves to be distinguished from others.

We are unfit to soar because our greediness, ambition blinds us to see our initiative conscience.
We step on the wrong path. We are fallen, lost.
We cannot soar because we cannot recall our instinct to soar.

Man is half dust, half deity, alike unfit to sink or soar.

Yet, we can be closer to either the dust or the deity,
though neither can we soar like Daedalus nor dig like marmot.
At least we have expactation to be distinguished from others.