living life in peace
When I tried to understand the meaning of this lyrics, I was still very young; maybe I still can’t fully understand the meaning it wants to convey, but I can say that this lyrics has established my atheistic thought. I believe that everything in the world and every individual is born from zero according to the law of evolution. Before we gain wisdom, there are no so-called "rules" or "prejudices" in the world. There is no god above us who is leading everything. Everything is produced according to nature. This central idea has deeply influenced my view of stereotypes since I was young. (American Psychological Association, 2018)
This kind of thinking made me interested in "studying the formation of prejudices." I think all the "prejudices" in the world are created because people have to socialize. Even if it goes back thousands or tens of thousands of years, when human beings all over the world still don't understand each other, we socialized with "other people" who are unfamiliar with us in order to get what we need. (American Psychological Association, 2019)
However, this is an important moment that triggers "prejudices" in the future. When people socialize when they don’t know each other, they will unconsciously treat others with preconceived and self-centered concepts, which will lead to quarrels or incomplete communication. Or they don’t even want to communicate. People tend to comment on others based on their own values and aesthetics, and then make their own conclusions and generate prejudices. (American Psychological Association, 1995)
Regardless of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, or religion, it is possible that people in the past did not have good communication and social interactions that caused negative stereotypes of each other. So I personally think that common things in life that are prone to prejudice are caused by people's social deficiencies from the past to the present. It is a process that people must go through after they have acquired wisdom, social skills, and different civilizations from scratch. Many prejudices are often rooted in the fact that most people still don't understand things that are strange to them. (American Psychological Association, 2020)
Through learning from historical mistakes and the popularization of psychology, people nowadays have more complete and benign communication, eliminate some prejudices, and bring each other closer. I think this is a benign evolution of social civilization. Even if old prejudices disappear, new prejudices will still appear, but this may be a natural phenomenon of social evolution. As the title says, living things are born from scratch and understand everything in the world from scratch; as long as life continues, we will never stop knowing and learning new things. Life goes on. (American Psychological Association, 2011)
___________________________________________First Memory
The first memory in my life can be traced back to the period when I was still sitting in a stroller. I actually forgot the exact age, but it was about three to four years old. I was taken to the zoo by my parents that day. The stone floor of the zoo was a bit uneven, which caused my stroller to jump down. So I was impatient and kept crying and asking my father to hold me up.
I didn't remember the other trivial things that happened that day, and I didn't even remember the animals in the zoo. I only remember that it was cloudy, drizzling, and even a little foggy; and before leaving the zoo, my parents bought me a balloon to calm my unstable emotions. These are all things I can remember.
I think there are reasons why I can remember this distant memory. For example, why I can clearly remember that I was sitting in a stroller. One is because of the uneven floor, but the other part is because I saw a lot of children at my age but they can walk normally, which caused me to feel unbalanced and puzzled. The emotions at that time impressed me deeply.
When I grew up, I learned that I had a physical illness when I was young, and it was only after seven years of age that I fully recovered. But in fact, because I was too young at that time, I don't remember the illness at all now.