Thursday, March 9, 2006
Gloomy Season
Sometimes I wonder how to measure a person's maturity. Although AhSiaKia was laughing nonstop while reading, I found it very disturbing. Being defensive is a virtue but when it turns out to be stubborness or ignorance, I have nothing more to say but best wishes.
It dawned to me that the world ain't what I had in mind or wished it was. People ain't that considerate or frank anymore. They thought of no one but themselves. Everything he/she do is for their own benefit. Lying, prostination, framing, maligning, badmouthing, gossiping and many more are quite common now. Each to his/her own, huh? I begin to wonder...is this an evolution? Or is it an devolution?
Why am I in a depressive mood today you might wander. Maybe you didn't notice but we had rather quite a number of horrid crimes or shocking events happening around us this year. For me, I'm also affected by the recent events that happened around me too. Firstly, we had the scandal from NYP. Earlier on, we had a man shot dead by his own henchman. Just yesterday, a man was knifed to death in his home. Maybe you would say why should I even care as those are people not related to me. But in fact, they are related. It shows the capabilities of the things people can do under certain conditions.
People say that the greatest enemy is yourself. Quite true apparently because you will never know what you can do. People think that they understand themselves well but only others know you better. You can try to exceed yourself but how can you do it without realising or understanding your limits? People say that don't judge a book by its cover. How can you say it when you don't even know yourself in the first place? People say that they know what they are doing and they know what's best for them. If they really know or just prostinating. All seems the same and sums up to this. We tend to think too highly of overselves till we overlook other people or fail to understand them.
Let me relate an event that happen today. A bunch of students came to a shop. One had a cup of chocolate bubble tea. He ignored the "No food and drinks" sign and he and his group stepped in. They browsed around the shop. One of the students' bag knocked down a ladder and the ladder hit the arm of the student who was holding the drink. The drink spilled on the floor. A female sales assistant saw what happened and demanded them to clean up the mess. The students argued that the spill was caused by the falling ladder and demanded an apology from the female sales assistant for the falling ladder and injury caused. The female sales assistant argued and threatened to report their misbehaviour and denial to clean up the mess to their principal. The students cleaned up the mess reluctantly.
It's simple. What the hell are the youngsters thinking of nowadays? What has the current education nurtured them to be? Brainless, unreasonable and arrogrant? To think of using the ladder, a non-living thing, as an excuse for causing the spill? To think of demanding an apology from the sales assistant when she didn't ask them to apologise for bringing drinks in the shop and causing a spill in the first place? The ladder wouldn't not have fallen if the bag didn't knock it down. The students refused to acknowledge that and only considered on their own perspective.
Stubborness or selfishness it may be. Sadly, there are people that are like that. The world is perfect and balanced after all. Yin and Yang. Good and bad.
Will be going to IT Show to visit some good people. Looking forward to the guys' outing later. Kai Out!
Labels: Life
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