Thang Nguyen 555

Honorable as a virtue lasts way beyond memorable moments (unerasable by Alzheimer).

In war or peace, man or woman, when acts of valor or kindness so enduring it is compared to elevated to eternality e.g. Joan of Arc, Mother Theresa, St Francis of Assisi, Thich Q Duc, Martin Luther King or Albert Sweizer…

Icons to be emulated, albeit hard to reach. They died young and left incompatible imprints. Their stories are worth to repeat every generation.

Please, young man YMCA! Rise, fly and if necessary, melt as I often do (with wings of wax).

Bit more than I can chew (rarely use fork/knife)

Jump higher than I could land (Hapkido)

Throw a line farther than I could reel (cau “ba cu”)

Repeat more than rinse (7th grade and freshman year twice, 10th grade none)

Say “Yes I do” like Knock three times – on the ceiling”

Knock our principle out of his VIP-seating at the close of Don’t let me down.

I am not suitable for machine-graded test, machine-prompt and machine learning.

Yet AI is here to stay, to nudge, to answer at every question before we barely finish typing (OK, artwork is AI-generated on this one, not too honorable).

The hard part is articulating your statement of problem. Once it’s set, we are more than halfway there.

For solution and execution, we need creative imagination, quick non-judgmental brainstorm, crowdsourcing and yes, AI-assisted data mining.

Then force-ranking, assigning risks, SWAT and swing it.

No risk no reward.

Just make sure what course of action to take, do act honorably.

Use me as poster boy, of what not to act.

It costs a lot to make mistakes, then to recover, then to let it sink in, to become part of one’s fabrics of “NOT” to do.

Still after “dopamine-detox” rehab, I came right back, with inoculation and hesitation at first.

Then personality, nature and nurture, AI and non-AI nudge and judge kick in. One toe into the water at a time, then a splash, a swim, slow swim into the cold current of time and river.

Then I turn around, behind me, not too many familiar faces and places. Gosh! Aging sucks

Yet becoming honorable is still far-reaching, a goal and perhaps, destiny. One day hopefully far into the future, someone suddenly remembered!

He or she was quite honorable: did not cheat on the test, or short on compliment, or forgetful when it comes to returning what’s borrowed.

A honorable man or woman, is hard to find.

Only in their absence and surrounded by J-6 people that you can cough up a name in your past association.

Hang on to him/her till death do you two part.

Some moments are memorable. But not all people are honorable. Often it involved personal sacrifices, impulsive and reflexive comebacks dropped. Come to think of it, those who are honorable are often humble. They know the game is long and time is short.

Honor is bestowed and belongs in a class of its own. What’s honorable is more than often memorable, if not immortal. It lasts way after we are no more.