Ji's Corner

This video is something I happened to find in one of the articles on Professor Tseng's blog.(http://hugoscorner.blogspot.tw/2013/09/blog-post_22.html)

I didn't expect that what moved me the most would be the film but the music over which the blogger expressed admiration.

While watching, it occured to me that each of us is like a moving cable car, slow or hasty, or more aptly, the passenger on it.
Imagining being one of the passengers boarding on a San Francisco cable car over 100 years ago, when the population there was about to grow, I felt the same as a commenter of the video:

While watching, it struck me how much these people are like us. They ARE us, in a sense. When studying history, we often forget that we are studying the history of our own human race. We are not so different from the people from a hundred years ago. We're probably not even much different from the Greeks or the Persians. It's important to remember that we are all responsible for everything that happens, happened, and will happened to us. We are all human, and we always will be.

With various shining gadgets that are altering the face of our lives, the sincerity of a human being  is somehow concealed by the mirror-like screens which most of the time reflect one's solitude. Now, we yearn for human contact much more than people did a century ago. However, it is so paradoxical for us to do so through "machines." I miss the natural, undecorated interaction between individuals, who might be puzzled by our failing to "really" talk to each other if they were to revive to life.

Smart phones perhaps do make us look or feel smarter; we grow distant everyday as either of us cannot bring ourselves to at least dial the number and just talk and care.