Topic: How about us to live in
a slower life?
Audience / Academic or
Non-academic: To the whole people that live in a very fast life
Purpose: To introduce the fast
and slow life, their good and bad points and express my opinion
Evaluate the topic:
1.
Description: the reality of
people to live very fast
2.
Good points: 1. can do more work than other
people
2. Improve the efficiency
Bad points: 1. Be pursued by time or work
2. People
can’t enjoy with their life with their family or friends
3. It may be bad for our health
Expression: 1 . Your overall opinion of the topic: Fast
life is not good.
2. Your recommendation: Live the life
slower
3. Main reasons for your recommendation/non-recommendation:
1 . Have the relaxation
2 . Feel the small happiness more
3 . Look other people and small situations
4 . Can think yourselves what you really want to
3 Images: the fast image, the
image related with the movie “slow life”, Image about the bad points of the
fast life
2 Videos: the preview the
movie “Slow video”, the fast version of Korean history
1 Link: http://www.positivityblog.com/index.php/2011/02/17/slow-down/
‘Here the train arrive…’
And many people get out. And
they move fast. Some people go to the company with
some bags in hand. Ohters, having a bite to eat, run to the school not to be
late at the class. In the afternoon, in the fast food restaurant, there are so many people to eat fast. They
don’t want to waste their time. And at the late night, many people are tired
and slept for a short time.
As you can
see, these are our usual life. We are very busy for doing something. But, for
now, Is it really right to live fast? Why don’t we think of our lives for one
time?
Fast life has some good
points. The fast livers can do more work than other usual people. By doing so,
they can have more efficiency. I can easily explain the reason because it
really exists in Korean history. Look at the video below.
This is a survey of public
opinion related with the next president. Before one minute to reveal a survey of public
opinion, one broadcasting company
introduced an abridged
edition
of the history of Korea. After becoming an independent country and experiencing
war, we restored our country and developed very quickly. As a result, you
can see, we, Koreans have a very short story to become an advanced country. Many
experts say that this could not be happened without the human nature of Korean,
trying to do things in a very short time.
However, the fast life has
many bad things. First, they are very pursued by the time and work. They don’t
have much time to have their meals and by doing that way for lots of times, therefore
they have more possibility to catch many lifestyle disease.
Not only that, by working at
the late night, they don’t have much time to enjoy with their family or
friends. There are lots of evidence to support. For example, look at the table
below.
This is statistic that how
much the depression patient increases from 2007 to 2011. As time goes by, the patients
having a depression goes up! Even though we become wealthy, we can’t change the
fast life Korean culture. By doing so, we can’t have enough relaxation, and get
lots of stress.
Now,
we have to think of slow life. How about we live in a slower life? Slow life
means countering the rapid pace of life and urbanization and representing a
balanced way of living that is about quality over quantity.
However, these days, many
people think that living slowly means uncompetitive and it can make people loser.
However this is not true.
Slow life has many good
things.
First, we can have more
relaxation. Having more relaxation in mind, we can understand other people more
and look at the small situations. For example, we used to pass by many people
that need help when we are in a hurry, but it will make us feel better to stop
momentarily and help him or her before moving on. That will fulfill both person
and me with a good feeling. Not only that, we can think of ourselves and can do
what we really want to do. And by doing that, we can feel the small happiness
more!
I was very impressed lately by the recent
movie, ‘The slow video’. The main character have the ability to see the things
slowly. As we see the movie, although the main story is about love, it made me
think about my life. If you have time, I recommend to see it. The video below
is the preview of that movie.
And here is the link that how
to live a slow life.
If you are interested, then go
to that page and read it, and try to live in that way. It will make your life
more fruitful.
Thank you.
I really want to live slow life and I'm trying to. Korea is well-known as 'Hurry hurry culture'. I think we miss many things because of this culture. We should spend much time with family, friends and taking a rest. By doing these, I think we can make our life more valuable.
답글삭제For reading your post, I think the book, MOMO which is written by writer Michael Ende. In the book, slow turtle can fast walk more than black suit man. And in my experience, slowly working makes often good conclude. So I agree with your opinion that we need slow life.
답글삭제I think fast life is the root of social ills. Especially, increase of depression patients is very serious problem of life. We should think about slow life seriously. I entirely concur with your opinion.
답글삭제Excessive competition is bad for us. To reach the highest goal, like speed, efficient are considered good virtues. However, these virtues are easy to forget our body, our life. So we try to pursue original aim, our life, as its called 'slow life'.
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