Please view the video below before proceeding to read the rest of the post.
This post might put me at risk of having additional birds on my shoulders, but I don't care =P.
What started out as posting a comment on Sir Terence's status on Facebook led me to the above video, an advertisement of some sorts from the Discovery Channel.
A video I watched and have rewatched 3 times since I first saw it till now.
You might not think of it as something significant. But watch the video again and you might catch at what I'm trying to say.
Did you notice how much effort went into filming that video? How much scripting, editing, directing and post-production had to go into making that video? It only lasted 1 minute or so but I am quite sure it took at least a few months or maybe even an entire year's worth of work to get that video right.
The number of places they had to travel to.
The number of phenomenons they had to wait for. (You don't see tornadoes, fireworks displays and giant squids everyday do you?)
The amount of effort put into editing and timing the shots carefully such that it came out as an appealing video.
The people who appeared in the video.
The reason why I say this is because most of these people who were singing the song are actually busy people. Researchers, historians, scientists, hosts of their own shows. I could only recognise Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman from Mythbusters (the scene where one guy sets the other on fire) and Stephen Hawking, world-renowned theoretical physicist and applied mathematician (in the wheelchair). It isn't easy for the production team to schedule appointments and filming sequences with these people, and yet they still managed to pull it off.
In the video you see many things that exist in this world. Weather phenomena, history, geography, history, biodiversity, flora and fauna, the environment. When I first saw the video I was awed by all these majestic things and how complex and beautiful the world actually is. You don't have to look far to get a glimpse of this beautiful world. That's because WE are all part of this beautiful world.
Likewise in the Company, each Boy and each individual is unique in their own way, and contributes to the Company in their own way. Have you ever thought that even if one person were to be missing, the Company would not be same as what it is today? Would the Company be where it is today without anyone of you?
The answer is no.
The Officers and Primers (Instructors) recognise that, and that is why we value and appreciate each and every one of you. Just imagine the Company as the world. Therefore each and everyone of you would be the magnificent sights that exist in the world. The people who got together to produce and film this video would be the Officers and Primers, who are doing their very best to make this world as beautiful and as magnificent as it should be. Wouldn't this world be a much better place if everyone could give in their bestest and most sincere efforts to help this world along?
Always remember that each and every one of you have great potential to become great people, and you could help by helping others to bring out their potential. Remember to appreciate one another and love one another as friends and brothers. Always remember that everyone in the Company will be there for you when you need them.
Lots of love,
Instructor Hongyou
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