China Today My observation.

From my many visits to China I would like to reflect the changes that have taken place to simple human beings and people at large. I need to keep this reflection personal as I am also a born Chinese and I too have a humble beginning.

From the earliest visit to my homeland, where relatives are very poor so was the country then, but people lived peacefully. What their concerned I believe was to live the day and worry the next other day. This I mean they cannot worry about so many other things like how people elsewhere live. Whether they live with all the world luxuries or otherwise. There is no comparison or rather they are only buried in their own world or perimeter. But somehow ask the little children how they feel back then. Almost certainly their reply was they are happy contented. They have all the things(or most of it) I mean the plain toys(self made, creative, imaginative and yet they all play it together and they are season for playing them too. Take for instant: the kite. We make them ourselves, all kind from simple to sophisticated with glass fragment glue onto the kite string for making your opponents kite string break when contacted with your own. Another example of toy cars. We make them out of cartoon boxes collected from sundries shop. Or sometimes we make them out of wooden crate. Running was my past time favourite and we go to bed sweaty and smelly next to our grandmother who has given up complaining.Swimming is another hot favourite where we swim in muddy ponds used by cowherd for their cows to clean up. We also like bathing in deserted coffee shop where their water tanks are our favourite. Next we shit in the open air in big drain in big groups of children. Sometimes adults too come along and imagine our shock when we started comparing sizes. My mother used to make my school uniform from flour bags. When new you can still see the wordings or code.It looks like nowadays such tee shirt are gaining popularity.