Simple but Unique

Despite the fact that my teeth are healthy and peal-like~^_^~, I always feel weak when I have to keep chewing. Thus, I am inclined to chew rather slowly, thoroughly, as well as thoughtfully. Every time, no matter I am eating in Eton Hall's dining room or any of the canteens in NUS, I raise my head from the food, I tend to have a mild panic.

You frowned, my friend said, chewing at the other side of the table. I did not notice that since I was paying all my attention to the people around me.

It is again that dry scene!! Repetitively, people move, holding nice dishes or ugly empty bowls. Without real indication of eating their fill, some are rubbing their stomachs simply out of habit while some are having papayas elegantly and suck secretly as well in case the juice soaks their fingers. Others are chewing together with different frequency. You may imagine that the movement on every one's cheek is somewhat connected, forming a huge wave, as if a piece of symphony performed in great disorder. Meanwhile, conversation begins to flow now and then and it is never rare to see people talking with their mouths full. What's more, a burp sometimes is inevitable and the person sitting in the corner is always gnawing a chicken bone...

All of a sudden, my eyes encounter someone who is looking at me and we both chewing mechanically. I realise that I am one of these ordinary and mediocre people. The concept of individual disappears when we do the most primitive things, namely eating sleeping laughing and crying. In fact, I do believe there exists people who eat merely to put food out of their minds, however, I can not tell. Everyone turns to an ant, being highly assimilated into the atmosphere of food. Therefore, I always have such subconscious fear that I may drop my life like a stone into a pool of silence and sinks without a trace.

Just having my 19Th birthday party not long ago, I hope to evolve my own style which is simple but unique--the style of a Japanese brand called MUJI which produces impressive things in the finest quality without any unnecessary accessories. The crux matter lies that both being simple and unique are very hard to reach. Besides, in regard to the common contradiction between them, it is a far harder and longer job to be simple and unique at the same time.

This is the recent concern of my own. I feel pity that I just can not describe my original feeling to you. For better or for worse, I will try to take great pleasure from small offerings and make unique use of my limited ability. You know, our self-explorations never die.