i read alot. i watch alot of animal planet, alot of discovery channel. i've most of Mitch Albom's books, The Five People You Meet In Heaven, Tuesdays With Morrie, even the latest For One More Day which I finished in Dec.
I recommend all of them, read and you will reflect, it is easy reading but it takes time cos ur relecting and relating to your life, if not, its fine.
A preview of Five People You Meet In Heaven:
let me warn you 1st, in all 3 books, people die..
(anyway, i realised wat i'm gonna say here has nothing to do with the latter, but anyway)
i realised that i know the simple facts of life, jus that i didnt realise and use them. wat do i mean? you will see.. . .
a simple fact 'no one is perfect' took me almost 9 yrs to realise, its a simple fact, a universal truth, yet i so often overlook, or shall i say i refuse to compromise?
i would say, i knew it was a fact, a common saying, something i knew since young, but i didnt realise it.
now i know i'm a perfectionist, after so long. now i know.. now i needed someone to tell me that. then it struck me.. Weird.
i always tell myself i wont compromise, not all stuff can be. now i tell myself, no one n nothing is perfect.
anyway, another realisation hit me even harder..
'if someone doesnt love you the way u want them to doesnt mean that they dun love u with their all'
so true, so simple, so direct, but i failed to see that. Till i read it in an email.
so now its my turn to remind you, keep this in your heart and remember it when ur mad at someone you love, be it ur family or that someone special.
to me, the world seems grey-er and the everything seems to come to a standstill on raint days. it makes people closer, nicer.
We huddle together under the umbrella to keep dry, we share, we whine together, we offer tissue and hot choco.
when was the last time you saw someone do something nice for a stranger purely outta goodwill? its been quite some time ya? wat's happened to the society?
when was the last time we flip open the papers and not see murders, robberies, abuse, fights?
se hui sheng bing le ma?
y r so many Singaporeans abusing domestic helpers?
we are one of the world's leading country, with one of the highest percentage of people who are educated.
Highly educated may i add. The people who abused them are managers, professionals. y? why do emotions and rage fly high?
it disturbs me greatly. i think maybe we need to re-evaluate our perspective of domestic helpers. They are here to help, they grew up in a village, they use pails and wells, some have never seen taps and switches and irons and stoves.
Give them time. Our bosses gave us time to adjust and orientation. Jus because they come from a developing country and we r paying them doesnt give us a right to abuse them.
reading deeper into it, the abusers are in a way 'bullying' people that are of lower authority and power, and that's foul.
and i see that as a kind of sickness, bullying someone who is alone here and has no one to turn to.
sigh~ i dun even know how i got there, discussing abuse. anyway, since i am here, i might as well continue.
in Iran, girls are being stoned to death, for those who doubt, yes, they are thrown stones till they die, or buried alive, pls see link to Maia's STOMP blog, pls be warned the last video clip is gruesome, for the faint hearted pls skip.
Its sad, but its their way of life, their culture, they cant and wont stop cos its in their head, to them its as normal as the people here are kiasu, loves queuing up and burns joss papers.
children in africa are fighting to stay alive, the children here are struggling to be top in class. Wat a joke, they dun even have paper and pens there, and we have unlimited ten yr series and assessments.
some may argue, they are born in that country, bo bian.
i know, i look at them and it breaks my heart.
Here we are earning thousands of dollars a month, some people in other parts of the world dun even have a roof over their head.
Its sad..
and there's nothing we can do about it.
i work in a mnc n i whine about my job. its a bitch.
w r blessed. we all r. If you r reading this right now, u r truly blessed. You hv an internet connection, you have the freedom to blog, freedom to access internet.
we shld be thankful.
i shld be thankful. i was offered a chance to go sweden after 4 months of working here. Does that mean my boss looks up to me? haha.. doubt so..
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