Pickled Vegetable Superman: Preface

The Superpickled Cabbage Preface

Column: Fairy Tales Added Time: March 31, 2011 15:42:42 Source: Admin Clicks: 16

The pig said: When humans think, the love of dandelions.

The root said: This journey will be long and perilous.

Leaves asked: Will this journey be sorrowful? And God laughed. Still, humans fight with heaven, fight with earth, warn survivors after earthquakes. The result is that everyone's life has tears, setbacks, and pain. Everyone is pursuing happiness and joy, like in "Superpickled Cabbage VII - Pickled Cabbage Fart." But for most people, happiness and joy are often visible yet unattainable. They don't know that the more they chase happiness, as in "Superpickled Cabbage V - Pickled Cabbage and Rose," the more happiness drifts away from them like a soap bubble. Because they always equate me and what I want... with definitions of happiness and goals, rushing towards it at all costs. Countless people relentlessly pursue their self-defined happiness like moths flying toward flames, only to find themselves exhausted and scarred. Then they blame the heavens for being unfair, for making life too difficult. They never realize that the happiness they chase is merely a soap-bubble version of happiness, not true happiness. They always think they are smart and clever, trusting themselves completely. So, God often laughs while watching them trip over themselves.

Excerpted from "Superpickled Cabbage and the Pig"