Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Mute it
To whom it may concern:
If you do not posses enough courage to actualize your dreams and your ambition. If you find that you lack conviction to go out on a limb in order to do something you feel for. If you cannot find the passion to devote yourself, then please find the courtesy not to ostracize someone else because of that.
Thank you.
By the way, I happen to reference the pianist who ran away from NS. Initially, I felt quite sore that he got to escape from NS, but it did occur to my simple mind that not everyone is inclined to serve the country by contributing to a military force.
People might choose to contribute via other means, but often, everyone is told to don a uniform or another to maintain a facade, a farce.
The very fact that he still had the guts to claim that he hails from our little island is quite miraculous, considering that fact that he did not have had to bother and just carry on with his life.
Sometimes, I feel very amused being in the midst of Singaporeans. We act like we're all bitches, and hardly stop to think. Otherwise, we spend the rest of our time trying to make more money.
I can't quite seem to comprehend which is worse: Bitching too much or bitching too much about things you would like to do but did not have the simple conviction to see it through to actualization.
Forgive me for being brash, but until you can say you're criticizing the pianist because if you, being in his shoe, would conciously choose to stay and serve your NS WILLINGLY, and in that 2 and a half years, put in effort to ensure that whatever work you produce is of decent standards, please find some decency to not place judgement on someone else's choices. I hardly know anyone, who if presented with the opportunity to skip NS oversea, would so magnanimously decline.
Inside the hearts of 90% of the NSFs, there exists an un/concious resentment toward their present state. So what does it result in? For one, it truly and genuinely wastes 2 plus years of your "precious" life. Honestly, what could possible be more futile than spending everyday "slacking"? It's not as though your life is that valuable. There are millions of "you" around, what makes you so such you're worth a thing?
When people are faced with difficulty, they can choose to act or they can choose to sit and pray that someone else removes that barrier. What that pianist did was to take a detour and find another road, is that wrong?
Many people are cowards in this place, and they like to talk alot to disguise this weakness. Talk can make the situation appear different, but as they say, "talk is cheap". You way lyrical about all the escapades that you're the protanganist of, you can recount how you nobly sacrificed yourself for so and so or you can bemoan that other person for doing something which you never would have.
I'm sorry that some of us might not as outstanding an example of the human race such as you, but until words can be backed up with action, please keep the volume down. There are other people in the world, for your information.
Gavin
pondered @ 19:29
