Lieber Shawn, Danke fuer die vielen Eindruecke aus Korea und China. Gerne haette ich es Dir einmal persoenlich gesagt.
Who will be there to take my place
When I'm gone, you'll need love
To light the shadows on your face
If a great wave shall fall
It would fall upon us all
And between the sand and stone
Could you make it on your own
If I could, then I would
I'll go wherever you will go
Way up high, or down low
I'll go wherever you will go
And maybe, I'll find out
The way to make it back someday
To watch you, to guide you
Through the darkest of your days
If a great wave shall fall
It would fall upon us all
Well then I hope there's someone out there
Who can bring me back to you
If I could, then I would
I'll go wherever you will go
Way up high, or down low
I'll go wherever you will go
Runaway with my heart
Runaway with my hope
Runaway with my love
I know now, just quite how
My life and love might still go on
In your heart, in your mind
I'll stay with you for all of time
If I could, then I would
I'll go wherever you will go
Way up high, or down low
I'll go wherever you will go
If I could turn back time
I'll go wherever you will go
If I could make you mine
I'll go wherever you will go
I'll go wherever you will go
The Calling
We were strangers
Starting out on a journey
Never dreaming what we'd have to go through
Now here we are
And I'm suddenly standing
At the beginning with you
No one told me I was going to find you
Unexpected, what you did to my heart
When I lost hope
You were there to remind me
This is the start
And Life is a road, and I want to keep going
Love is a river I want to keep flowing
Life is a road, now and forever
Wonderful journey
I'll be there when the world stops turning
I'll be there when the storm is through
In the end I want to be standing at the beginning
With you
We were strangers
On a crazy adventure
Never dreaming how our dreams would come true
Now here we stand
Unafraid of the future
At the beginning with you
And life is a road, and I want to keep going
Love is a river I want to keep flowing
Life is a road, now and forever
Wonderful journey
I'll be there when the world stops turning
I'll be there when the storm is through
In the end I want to be standing at the beginning
With you
I knew there was somebody somewhere
Like me alone in the dark
Now I know my dream will live on
I've been waiting so long
Nothing's going to tear us apart
And life is a road and I want to keep going
Love is a river I want to keep flowing
Life is a road, now and forever
Wonderful journey
I'll be there when the world stops turning
I'll be there when the storm is through
In the end I want to be standing at the beginning
With you
And life is a road, and I want to keep going
Love is a river I want to keep going on
Starting out on a journey
Life is a road and I want to keep going
Love is a river I want to keep flowing
In the end I want to be standing at the beginning
With you
Fare thee well
My own true love
Farewell for a while
I'm going away
But I'll be back
Though I go 10,000 miles
10,000 miles
My own true love
10,000 miles or more
The rocks may melt
And the seas may burn
If I should not return
Oh dont you see
That lonesome dove
Sitting on an ivy tree
She's weeping for
Her own true love
As I shall weep for mine
Oh come ye back
My own true love
And stay a while with me
If I had a friend
All on this earth
You've been a friend to me
You
a fading memory of you
a loneliness that caused on you
when twilight comes too soon
to mourn, to hold our reverie.
You
won't you tell me what to do
what to say and how to prove
that i long to be so.. close to you
that is all i ask of you
i can't help it but i'm so.. in love with you
don't tell me that's too hard on you
'cause no one else will do.
You
you can make me see it's true
i'm nothing without you
baby, hold me close.. to you
that is all i ask of you
you walk away and i'll be run..ning back to you
running back to you
you're my one and only one.
You.
You - Karen Mok. (So Close OST)
Was bedeutet das nun? Im Prinzip, dass wir Zeit als knappes Gut ansehen, welches optimal genutzt werden muss. Daher ist uns das Einhalten von Terminen, Puenktlichkeit usw. auch sehr wichtig. Diese Normen spielen dagegen in Asien scheinbar eine nicht so grosse Rolle. Schliesslich geht die Sonne jeden Tag von neuem auf, und die Zeit kann somit (bis zum naechsten Zyklus) andersweitig verwendet werden...
Dieser kulturelle Unterschied ist natuerlich nicht nur fuer Geschaeftsbeziehungen relevant, sondern erklaert sicher auch so einige kleine Missverstaendnisse in zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungen.
