One of the Heros of my time

Neil Amstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon was one of the heros of my time standing along Superman,spiderman and the Hulk. His passing at age of 82 due cardiac complications was regretable. His famous quote "One small step for a man but a giant step for mankind" reflects the importance of his mission, Apollo 11.

 His achievement also cancelled off the Chinese myth and folklore of the existence of fairies on the Moon and aliens living on the moon. The chinese celebrate the Moon cake festival and the occasion was make famours due to a forklore about the romance of a fairy and a cowherd. The fairy  fell in love with a mortal and was sent by the God Mother to the Moon in order to separate the couple and they were allow to meet only once a year. A rainbow will connect the earth and the moon, so that the cowherd can walk from the earth to the moon.

Since my younger days, I was influenced by my mother to pray to the moon fairy and asked for spiritual help and on the 15th day of the eight moon, I will join in the celebration to pray to the fairy with Moon cakes and other goodies. Another taboo was that we cannot point our fingers at the Moon and if we do it, the moon will cut off one of our ears. This is a GOD fearing perception that was pumped into my head.

Other interesting theory involved the eclipse of the moon. The folks during my youth would tell us that the eclipse of the moon was due to an animal eating up the moon and we will need to drum the gongs to make noise so that the animal will be freighten and will not eat the moon. It was another GOD fearing tale.

All these beliefs vanished after neil armstrong set his foot on the moon. It has broken all the taboos and make a laughing stock on all these folklores. However, if a fairy really come out to greet Neil Armstrong, then it will be a totally different story. LOL. So, the image of Neil Armstrong was like the Hulk breaking the strong myth by a punch. Everything disintegrated and a void remains. The "one" punch cancelled off my years of belief. Haiyooo.

Well, for the generations after Neil's historical step, they would not be able to enjoy the thrill of folklore of the fairy and the imagination of looking up to the moon and hope to get a glimpse of the fairy and the cow herd. It is another form of enjoyment and fantasy. We always imagine that the fairy is very beautiful and we set our dreams to get the fairy as our wife. It could be a foolish thing to do but it gives us the hope and the love. Life is all about these two factors , hope and love. It was very comfortable for us to look at the moon and imagine that someone is watching over us and answer to our prayers.

Thanks and no thanks to Neil Amstrong who have selflessly make history by exploring the limits of our time and set his foot on the moon. His wish that one day someone would go up there to clean up his footprints will not replaced the shattered belief of many million chinese youths.

Nevertheless, goodbye, Neil and rest in peace while we struggle through the complications left behind by your historical achievements.

Namaste.