TOVIE-FOLDER

You may use this TOVIE smile as the reminder of the life-maxim: Everything has its two sides to look at.
Everytime you look at this reminder you may be able
to compose yourself as the ideal self - that is, fixing your
eyes on the postitive side of things and never forgetting to
remember the the negative side as well.
One of such means is TOVIE FOLDER as pictured below.

Long, long ago in China there lived an old man called "Say"
and he had one son and a horse. The horse he reared one day
escaped and returned no more. His neighbor tried to comfort
him but the old man nevertheless just grinned in reply. The
horse, however, returned home one day bringing a wild horse
as its pal. this time the neighbor tried to congratulate the old
man for this unexpected good luck but the old man just grinned
in reply. One day his only son got on the wild horse was unhappily
bruised in the leg as a result of being fallen from the horse.
The neighbors tried to comfort the old man again and the old
father just grinned this time too. In the mean time war broke
out and all of the young men in the country were called to be
enlisted and many of them in fighting for their country returned
home either dead or wounded. But the maimed young son of the
old man needed not to meet such tragedy because he leg had
already been broken. And so men began to talk on "Old Say's
Horse" from that time on.

A typical Korean mask of being self-composed,
deliberate and at ease
A wonderful smile engraved on an broken tile
of the old times in Korea