Learning Reflection

In today’s lesson, we’ve discussed about the communication between men and women, which is related to the contents of TL&S (Tapestry Listening& Speaking). In the class, tutor gave us a chance to do a role play, it was very interesting. Our classmates’ perfect and fantastic performance not only made the atmosphere of class more interesting, but also helped us get a better understanding of the main idea of this class.

When tutor explained some thing for us, she said a sentence whose main idea is like this (I can’t remember her original sentence): “if she/he had the patient to conflict with you, at least she/he still cared about you. So this situation is even better than she/he don’t conflict with you, because he/she don’t care you any more, he/she even don’t want to conflict with you.” After I heard the sentence, I felt really very agree with her. And I thought this sentence is not only suitable for this kind of situation for wife and husband, not also it can apply to other situation.

This reminds me of a Chinese ancient motto: “the more you love a person, the more you hate him/her.” Seemingly, this motto is self-contradiction. But in actually, this sentence comprises lots of philosophy. So let’s us think about this situation. The parents have a high expectation for their child; however, their child is too naughty to study very well. So the parents will feel so disappointed about him/her, because the child doesn’t live up to their parents’ expectation. So the parents’ loves are so strong that they can’t understand and forgive their child’s poor performance. Even though the child may complain for his/her parents’ punishment, in another view, I can say the child is fortunate, because parent really hope they could live well and make a good effect for their study or career.

So, sometimes others can take care of you even more than yourself. For ourselves, we should also try to comprehend others’ kindness.

Qu Dong
Group 5