Hands-on

Stepping on the snow and feels its coldness is one of the greatest dreams of any person living in the region with temperate or warm climate or experiencing dry and wet seasons only. It sounds pretty amazing sometimes to be like a child specially when you missed those things that you never had experienced when you were a child. Snow that you often see only in the holiday greeting cards is now real thing on your hands and feet.

In Science, snow is a part of the water cycle. It appears during the process of precipitation whereas water falls on the surface in various forms such as drizzle, rain, hail, sleet or snow. Snow is a solid form of water. Snow is made up of purely two hydrogen atoms and one atom of oxygen just like the rain water. If pure water reacts with other elements or compounds in the air or on the earth surface, it is considered a mixture already. If the air temperature in the atmosphere is on or below freezing point which is zero degree Celsius, this is the time when the condensed water in the atmosphere turns into snow then falls to the ground or commonly called “snowfall”.

Snowfall has advantages and disadvantages as well. Snow makes the surroundings purely white in color which lasts for several days. It binds the family members at home to stay connected and engaged. However, snow can also harm plants, animals and humans due to severe coldness. It also disrupts the daily activities at work. Snow can also affect the motorists, power supplies, public and private sectors including business communities.

In spite of advantages and disadvantages of snowfall, let us consider that it is a natural phenomenon beyond our control but we can mitigate and prevent its massive adverse effects by understanding the nature of snow and its possible impacts to our physical, social, emotional, economical and political environments. From then, we can design good plans, make wiser decisions and do great actions.

What is your priority in life? What do you value most in life? Whatever your priority is the one you value most or whatever your value most is your priority? Believe it or not.

If you ask people the same question, “What is your priority? What do you value most?” They will give you various answers. They will rank it from one to ten. Sometimes, you may get surprise of their answers. Do you know why? Most of them answer that their priorities and what they value most are “material things” such as a lot of money, a big house, an expensive car, a lot of jewelries, business and even the latest personal gadget that they want to acquire. Only few of them will answer that their priorities and value most are their health, family, education, faith and other people. 

If this kind of attitude or mind setting of our generation today, how can you predict what kind of society that we have in the near future? If this kind of valuing continuously, how can you figure out the new culture, the disrupting “I” disease (self-centered) or so called “Greed Effect”? Some people want not just material things but also power to empower and influence others. They never satisfied with the things they owe now. They want more material things and power. For whatever reasons, some of them never show sympathy and empathy with others.

What is our real purpose in life? We just live on earth temporarily. Nothing is permanent. Whatever we do now are derived from our deeper thoughts, and the consequences of our action are merely derived from our wise decision. Therefore, if that would be the case, we need to change our mind set or attitude toward priorities in life and what we value most.

Hoping this year would be better for you. God bless you.