Life's Toughest Questions ANSWERED (Part I)
This is an article I read. Hehe... Maybe some of you guys know where I took this from~ Anyway, I just wanna post it here to let those who visit this page to see it~ Enjoy~
Life's 25 Toughest Questions- Answered
By Jeanne Marie Laskas
LOVE & MARRIAGE
1. Can love really last a lifetime?
# Absolutely - but only if you chuck the fairy tale of living happily ever after. A team of scientists recently found that romantic love involves chemical changes in the brain that last 8-12 months. After that, you and your partner are on your own. Relationship requires maintenance. Pay a visit to a nursing home if you want to see proof of lasting love. Recently I spoke to a man whose wife of 60 years suffered from advanced Alzheimer's disease. He came to sit with her everyday and hold her hand. "She's been my best friend since high school," he told me. "We made a promise to stick together.: Now, that's a love story.
2. Why do married falks begin to look like one another?
# Watch any two people who like each other talking, and you'll see alot of mirroring. One smiles, so does the other. One nodes or raises her eyebrows, and so does the other. Faces are like melodies with a natural urge to stay in sync. Multiply those movements with several decades of marriage, all those years of stimultaneous sagging and drooping, and it's no wonder!
3. Can a marriage survive betrayal?
# Yes. it takes time and work, but experts are pretty unanimous on this one. In her book 'The Monogamy Myth', Peggy Vaughan estimates that 60 percent of husbands and 40 percent of wives will have an affair at some point in their marriages. That's no advertisement for straying - but the news is good for couples hoping to recover from devastating breaches of trust. The offended partner needs to make the choice to forgive - and learn to live with a memory that can't simply be erased. infidelity is never forgotten, but it can gradually fade into the murky background of a strong, mature marriage.
COSMIC QUESTIONS
4. Why does summer zoom by and winter drag on forever?
# Because context defines experience. As Albert Einstein once said:"When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour."
5. Do animals really ahve a sixth sense?
# Or seventh or eighth! A box jellyfish has 24 eyes, an earthworm's entire body is covered with taste receptors, a cockroach can detect movement 2000 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom - and your dog's sense of smell is up to 100,000 times greater than yours (some dogs have been known to smell human cancers). it's safe to say that animals experience a much different world than we do.
6. Why does the line you're in always move the slowest?
# Because you're late for your kid's band practice, and you curse your luck and envy those speeding by. Conversely, when you're in the fast line, unfettered by stress, you don't even notice the poor schlubs in the slow lane. Good luck rarely commands one's attention like bad luck.
7. By what age should you know what you want to do with your life?
# Any moment now. This used to be a question the young asked. Now it's a quandary for baby boomers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reporst that younger boomers have abandonded the American ideal of picking a job and sticking with it. Between the ages of 18 and 36, these boomers held an average of 9.6 jobs. That's a whole lot of exploration. The wisdom of elders in all cultures seems to be this:There's nothing to do with a life but live it. As Gandhi pointed out, "Almost anything you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
8. Where do traffic jams come from?
# Scientists are hard at work on this one, studying computer models of a physics of gridlock and inventing all new traffic light algorithms. Some of them postulate that the rhythms of automoblie traffic are influenced by the same cyclical forces that cause waves in the ocean. For the average commuter, though, it may be helpful to think of it this way: congestion. There are just too many darn people trying to do the same thing at once. (Flush every toilet in a single office building simultaneously, and see that happens.) All of this by way of saying : Buy a newpaper, load up some favourite tunes on your MP3 player, and take the bus.
WORKING FOR THE MAN
9. When is your future behind you?
# When you stop chasing dreams. So don't stop!
10. Do you have to love your job?
# No. Love your children, your spouse and your country. Love your parents, your neighbour and you dog. Loving is too important an emotion to attach to the way you make a living. But it's OK to strive for satisfaction. According to recent Harris Poll, across America 59 percent of workers say they are extremely, somewhat or slightly satisfied with their jobs, but a depressing 33 percent feel as if they've reached a career dead end. If you're among the latter and thinking about a new job, consider the fact that employees in small firms said they felt more engaged in their work than their corporate counterparts did.
Life's 25 Toughest Questions- Answered
By Jeanne Marie Laskas
LOVE & MARRIAGE
1. Can love really last a lifetime?
# Absolutely - but only if you chuck the fairy tale of living happily ever after. A team of scientists recently found that romantic love involves chemical changes in the brain that last 8-12 months. After that, you and your partner are on your own. Relationship requires maintenance. Pay a visit to a nursing home if you want to see proof of lasting love. Recently I spoke to a man whose wife of 60 years suffered from advanced Alzheimer's disease. He came to sit with her everyday and hold her hand. "She's been my best friend since high school," he told me. "We made a promise to stick together.: Now, that's a love story.
2. Why do married falks begin to look like one another?
# Watch any two people who like each other talking, and you'll see alot of mirroring. One smiles, so does the other. One nodes or raises her eyebrows, and so does the other. Faces are like melodies with a natural urge to stay in sync. Multiply those movements with several decades of marriage, all those years of stimultaneous sagging and drooping, and it's no wonder!
3. Can a marriage survive betrayal?
# Yes. it takes time and work, but experts are pretty unanimous on this one. In her book 'The Monogamy Myth', Peggy Vaughan estimates that 60 percent of husbands and 40 percent of wives will have an affair at some point in their marriages. That's no advertisement for straying - but the news is good for couples hoping to recover from devastating breaches of trust. The offended partner needs to make the choice to forgive - and learn to live with a memory that can't simply be erased. infidelity is never forgotten, but it can gradually fade into the murky background of a strong, mature marriage.
COSMIC QUESTIONS
4. Why does summer zoom by and winter drag on forever?
# Because context defines experience. As Albert Einstein once said:"When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour."
5. Do animals really ahve a sixth sense?
# Or seventh or eighth! A box jellyfish has 24 eyes, an earthworm's entire body is covered with taste receptors, a cockroach can detect movement 2000 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom - and your dog's sense of smell is up to 100,000 times greater than yours (some dogs have been known to smell human cancers). it's safe to say that animals experience a much different world than we do.
6. Why does the line you're in always move the slowest?
# Because you're late for your kid's band practice, and you curse your luck and envy those speeding by. Conversely, when you're in the fast line, unfettered by stress, you don't even notice the poor schlubs in the slow lane. Good luck rarely commands one's attention like bad luck.
7. By what age should you know what you want to do with your life?
# Any moment now. This used to be a question the young asked. Now it's a quandary for baby boomers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reporst that younger boomers have abandonded the American ideal of picking a job and sticking with it. Between the ages of 18 and 36, these boomers held an average of 9.6 jobs. That's a whole lot of exploration. The wisdom of elders in all cultures seems to be this:There's nothing to do with a life but live it. As Gandhi pointed out, "Almost anything you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
8. Where do traffic jams come from?
# Scientists are hard at work on this one, studying computer models of a physics of gridlock and inventing all new traffic light algorithms. Some of them postulate that the rhythms of automoblie traffic are influenced by the same cyclical forces that cause waves in the ocean. For the average commuter, though, it may be helpful to think of it this way: congestion. There are just too many darn people trying to do the same thing at once. (Flush every toilet in a single office building simultaneously, and see that happens.) All of this by way of saying : Buy a newpaper, load up some favourite tunes on your MP3 player, and take the bus.
WORKING FOR THE MAN
9. When is your future behind you?
# When you stop chasing dreams. So don't stop!
10. Do you have to love your job?
# No. Love your children, your spouse and your country. Love your parents, your neighbour and you dog. Loving is too important an emotion to attach to the way you make a living. But it's OK to strive for satisfaction. According to recent Harris Poll, across America 59 percent of workers say they are extremely, somewhat or slightly satisfied with their jobs, but a depressing 33 percent feel as if they've reached a career dead end. If you're among the latter and thinking about a new job, consider the fact that employees in small firms said they felt more engaged in their work than their corporate counterparts did.
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