Last week Jack and I binged on the British drama, The Split. It was a recent show about some prominent London lawyers practicing family law. It was a very good drama with a good cast. It talks about the heartache and fights people have to deal with in divorce. It was dramatic not only for the clients, but also the lawyers themselves have intertwined relationships, friends, husband and wife, mother and daughters, sisters. To me, it was a penultimate British Drama. After finishing all three seasons in 3 days, I was so emotionally drained. My conclusion? I can do without dramas.
It got me to think about Shakespeare, who could probably be crowned the grandmaster of British drama. His classic romantic tragedy - Romeo and Juliet, is well-known around the world. There is a similar story in Chinese folklore called: “Butterfly Lovers.” That story was from 266-420 AD, the Jin Dynasty in China. The story is pretty similar to Romeo and Juliet: the son and daughter of two rival families in business fell in love with each other. But they were not allowed to be together because of the generational family fuel, and after much struggles, they eventually commit suicide together. And after they were dead, they became butterflies, and flew away together. It symbolize the two lovers eventually get together after death.
I told Jack this story, and he said: “oh, but butterflies only live two weeks. They will die after two weeks.”
I told my coaching partner Numi from San Diego the above story, she said: I was thinking the same thing, Butterflies only live two weeks, then they will die.
My friend Laurent had a good answer, he said: even though it’s two weeks for humans, as butterflies, they got to spend their whole lives together.
Here’s my favorite “Butterfly Lovers” Erhu Concerto. Erhu is a two string Chinese musical instrument.
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