Time keeper- cherish what you have and want no more

In Sarah’s future, she succeeds to suicide.Her mom is trying to sale the car that kills her daughter. Lorraine, her mom, keeps her eyes locked on the car, until it disappeared around a corner. Then she broke down, sobbing. “I should have been there.” as she blames herself. Sarah’s uncle tried awkwardly to hug her across the front sear, their winter coats scratching against each other. Seeing this, Sarah grips her elbows, she feels sick inside. She has been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn’t considered the misery she might inflict. She say her mother squeeze the envelope to her chest, clinging to the receipt for the car that Sarah has used to kill herself. “Why?” is the only thing that her mom asks for. It is Ethan, the boy that humiliated her, that kills her by killing her heart. The next moment, Sarah is put into the cave that Dor has spend thousands of years in. He was kept away from the one he loved for thousands of years. It is the missing of love let him feel love. Now, he wish nothing but even spend the last days with his wife, Ali. Dor wants Sarah to know the feelings he used to have. Sarah still has many more years. Even she doesn’t want them, they want her. Time is not something you give back. The very nect moment may be an answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of you life-hope.  Ends are for yesterday, not for tomorrows. There is more for Sarah to do in this life. 

There will be one day that we will no longer be with the ones we love. There will be one day that we will no more possess what we have now. Why we have to know the betterness of those days so that we can cherish our life today? I remember a part of lyric from “Just give me a reason”- “we still have everything.” comparing to those who are dying we have life. Comparing to those who are starving, we have food. Comparing to those who are alone, we have someone love us to the death end. So, why misery? Thinking of too much makes us too complicated. Happy playing and happy dying, we consume what we have and we love everyone that deserve our love. 

Time keeper-we count our lives

These two person are either in need of more time or sick of having too much time. Dor, the time keeper, is assigned by the father time to save both of them. Victor is needed to accept the natural life, and Sarah is needed to be encouraged to move on. Victor is a man of wealth, and he wants to be immortal by the newest technology. Sarah is but a student, and she wants to end her life because of the insult from her dreaming boy. Dor is assigned to "talk" to them. Being a man from ancient time, he studies and read books for a hundred years in Europe to keep on with the time. The father time gives him an hourglass to slow the time to make Dor have time better understand this world. In this way, Dor finally approaches these two people as a clerk of a watch shop. Sarah gets to trust him when she is talking to him about her imaginary boy friend. Victors notices this man special when he is trying to buy a old watch to honor his now days, so that he would remember everything when he wakes up in the future. Either discarding all time she has or asking for more than he should have is twisted. Dor needs to change them. 

At the point of the girl’s suicide and the beginning of the old man’s preservation process, the time was stopped for the first time- time was just slowed in the past by the hourglass. The river is still. The snow flakes stop in the air. People are doing anything they want; yet, after this point, all is frozen. Nothing is able to move but Victor, Sarah and Dor. It doesn’t take long for both Victor and Sarah to get used to this quiet world. And then comes their tour that they will never forget.

At first, Dor showed Victor’s future. Crowded, extremely crowded.Before Victor could respond, a commotion rose from the gallery hall, now completely filled with spectators. As he approaches the cylinder that he is sleeping in. A wave of horro engulfed him. There inside the tube, was a pinkish, shriveled version of his body, his muscles atrophied, his skin blotched as if burned, his head wired in multiple places, the wires running to numerous machines. His eyes were open and his lips were parted in a pained expression. Immortality is not a gift.

Time keeper- hope not for eternal

     This is a story about the time and life. The general book is led by three small stories. In this Mitch Alboms newest fiction book, the first founder of clock in the ancient time was kept in a cave as a sort of penalty. He will have no more death and sees everyone but himself passing away. Such a torture it is for him to see his beloved wife dying for giving help to others. At first, he is just as the enlightened one who has the tempt to measure time and know the cycle of every thing. He counts with bowls and sticks. He finds out that moon will be off when the water in his bowl has leek out and he knows when the moon will not be round. The talent that nobody has at that time of the world gives him the unique ability to measure every kinds of time. "I have taken every thing under control" he thinks. Yet, he has the talent for time but not for healing. His wife is infected by a horrible disease, which takes her life away in weeks. The heart of Ali, the time inventor and later the keeper, is tore apart. Remembering that his friend has built a tower stretch into the sky, he rush on the tower to reclaim his wife back. The tower starts to fire up as he runs up. However, he is right captured by the father of time as he intends to run to the heaven and reclaim the life of his wife back.
     Since then, he is locked in a cave away from human and, who knows, may be away from earth even for thousand of years. During of this time, he can only hear the pray from human world asking for time. It has been a long time since Ali's leave, and human has been developing since the ancient time. Yet, the understanding of time has never changed. Time are begged to be given out for their rushing ages. Thousands, Millions and billions. Ali is so sick of these prays- asks. To keep his wife in his mind, he uses symbols to record all his memory. Thousands of years, he kills them by carving and listening until the father time comes to ask him to help two people-two resemble all but also are unique. The asks of two represent all human's needs.

Crouching tiger and hidden dragon

what do the Wudan masters teach their pupils? 

     Wudan is the place for Daoism. The basic idea of Daoism is to seek the peace and seek for the harmony between human and the nature. As a student of Wudan, Li Mubai lives out this way. Despite all his has done before, he is now willing to give out his precious sword "the Green Destiny". Swords represent fight, and Li Mubai's giving out sword means he decides to give up fight. He is seeking for the peace by giving up fight. The idea of Wudan next to having peace is to keeping the balance between man and nature. During the final fight with Jen, they fight on the bamboo. He wants to tell Jen that all we have are but the derivative of nature. If we want to really understand ourselves(for Jen is to have better Kung Fu), we need to find our harmony with nature and get used to it. That is why Li Mubai can stand on the top of bamboo; Jen can't even balance herself. Jen, finally, learn these two truth. She want the peace, which has been long gone away from her mind. She tries to jump down the mountain so that she can reclaim back that truth.