The Fifth speech

The illusion of life

Today information telecommunication technology is always changing, biotechnology information telecommunication engineering has made rapid progress which has gone beyond the pale of God. The behavior patterns of humans have been always changing and diversifying. Because of this, it is impossible to predict the pattern of humans and the next move they will make. In our society, many problems are happening and some problem can be caused by illusion. The illusion is always causing problems with human relations. Generally, the meaning of illusion is a false or misleading perception or belief. Illusion is always happening when we communicate with people. In my case, I lived in my illusion of life for 10 years. Today I’d like to talk about two kinds of illusions and my illusion of life.

First of all, I’d like to talk about my illusion of life.

I was born in Chang-won and lived there for about 12 years. When I was 13years old, my family moved to Jang-Yu, which is located next to Chang-Won. At that time, wearing jeans was very popular. That was when I first wore them. It was great and I really loved the color of the jeans. One day, I was walking on the street and I saw a singer’s performance. When I first saw him, I thought his body was perfect. His legs were very slim and he was taller than me.

He instantly became my idol and I started to base my clothing style on him. Because I had no eye for fashion and just wanted to be a fashionable person like him.

I started comparing my body with his body. I hated my body, because I thought that I was fatter than other people. After that, I was afraid to wear jeans and I started to be self-conscious of my appearance. I believed that only fashionable people or people who were naturally slender should wear jeans.

In order to not be self-conscious of my appearance, I started wearing only training clothes in high school. The training clothes were not only unimpressive but also not fancy.

I always wore them if I met my friend, and even when I met a girl friend. When I became a university student, I continued to wear only training clothes. Because of this, there were only two kinds of training clothes and some blue jeans which I had never worn in my wardrobe. Since I wore only training clothes for 10 years, my fashion sense is now lower than other peoples’ fashion sense.

A month ago, my illusion was burst. One day, I thought about my fashion. “I’m a senior and I’m just one semester short of graduating. I have not worn jeans for about 10 years because I believed that only fashionable people or people who were naturally slender could wear jeans. I realized that this reason didn’t make sense.

I decided to change my thoughts and tried to follow the latest fashion.

First of all, I started doing exercise in order to become slender because I thought that the fundamental reason why I couldn’t wear jeans was because I was fatter than others. In order to lose weight, I ran 10 kilometers every day for three months. Three months later, I checked my weight. I was surprised. It was the same. Furthermore, I remembered a documentary I watched. Some days ago, I watched ‘The Human Body Revealed’. The documentary I watched was produced by National Geographic. According to this documentary, the average weight of men who are 5.8 feet tall falls between 58 and 72 kilogram. My weight is normal.

Looking back now, the reason was very simple. I had lived in my life of illusion which I made for almost 10 years. My negative illusion had changed to stereotypes and I could never think outside the box because of my negative illusion.

As I explained, the negative illusion has a magical power to change our life perfectly.

Despite this, there are not only negative illusions but also positive illusions in the world.

A few days ago, I saw a documentary which was produced by Korean educational broadcasting station called EBS.

It says that there are many people who have positive illusion in the world and one of the people that has positive illusion is Barack Obama, who is America’s president. When he was child, he had a big dream of becoming a president. When he told people his dream, nobody believed him. He had always believed in himself and he would always remind himself of his motto ‘l can do it’. 

After a few years, he became a president, thanks to his motto.

As I explained, the positive illusion is very powerful.

According to Korean scientific research, our brain can save briefly 40 million words per second when we listen to someone. But our brain can save only 40 out of 40 million words perfectly and we call those 40 words the illusion. 

The brain always saves and erases words regardless our will.

In the world, there are many people who have difficulty living their life because of their negative illusion. For example, some people don't like to meet others, because of their native illusion such as black face and gross body. Despite this, some people who know their strengths perfectly and have a positive illusion can make their dreams come true.

Generally, Illusion is related to the complex and the complex is formed by our memories. Illusion is the part of our memory which we want to see, hear and remember. Technically the illusion is like a memory. If we hear something and remember it, then there is a high probability that that memory can be changed to a form of illusion.

We always have illusions. If we have a negative illusion, our life won't come to a happy ending. We need to dispel the whirl of negative illusions from our head and try to have positive illusions.

Think about whether or not you have a negative illusion.

If you have a negative illusion, you may be exposed to this danger.

Help fight against the danger of negative illusion from now on.

If you have a negative illusion, your mind will focus on the negative aspects of your life.

Help fight against the danger of a negative illusion for a better future.