Whose life is it anyway?

Sometimes I meet people who tend to think that the whole world revolves around them and that their life story is the most interesting thing in the world.

Disgusting?

I don’t really know. I guess if I were to jump to conclusions like that I would pretty much be a pile of chopped up rotten cadaver myself…

After all, I do have a tendency sometimes to brag, albeit unconsciously. Well, who doesn’t? But then aha. There comes the interesting counterpoint, of the existence of people who do the opposite of bragging, people who are able to scale mount everest, ace in a thousand exams and yet announce with a hailer that they don’t like their own achievements and that they’re stupid and that they’re so dumb and shitty that they’re the scum of the earth.

Equally disgusting?

I’ve always had the impression that people who do that believe that their achievements are ’so great’ that they dare not be honest… as though they are fearful of being labelled arrogant. In addition, these people also seem to act like tranquilizers, pacifying people around them to believe they’re not doing well and encouraging others to be complacent too. In the end, when a tough situation occurs, everyone will be forced to depend on this ‘faker of stupidity’ as everyone else has been idle and not developing… Is this the source for my gut feeling of disgust?

Without a doubt. Nay a shadow of it.

Such people have a toxic effect on people around them. A tasteless, odourless toxic. As I have illustrated earlier, it isn’t hard then to see that such people are the inhibitors to the releasing of potential by the people around them. No wonder my gut feeling told me it was bad for me, that I should stay away, that it was…

disgusting.

No, this realization did not come in a dream. It is in fact something I observed happening in my class. A class where everyone’s academic potential was without a doubt, ‘there’. after all, a whole class of straight A students in SPM… what would you expect?

Stress?

Far from it.

Due to the influence of certain nefarious parties I’ve mentioned earlier, the majority of the class has become IDLE. and has been underperforming terribly. Isn’t this a shame?

Or is this work place politics, where everyone tries to kill each other? American Idol?

What a sad day it would be when an educational institution did not succeed in releasing close to 1% of an individual’s potential. What a sad day it would be when evil triumphs when good people do nothing!

Shall we be sad?

No!

Sadness brings us to nowhere!

I say, let us be grateful!

Let us be grateful that we realized our potential for excellence and our right to release it. Let us be grateful that we are still alive and that we can do every little thing today better than yesterday. Let us be grateful for each other! That when we all strive towards excellence we can be proud of each other’s achievements. Let us be glad…

But let us act now…

As the Chinese saying goes, the best time to plant a tree is ten years ago, the second best time is today.

And let us act fast too…

As Jack Welch once said, If you’re not fast, you’re dead.

lol

anyway

Coming back to my first query, about people who think they’re the most interesting people in the world. Gut feeling tells us they’re disgusting too because they’re just a waste of time… just because such people feel great praising themselves doesn’t mean we should join in. If you honestly feel that an issue is unimportant, do dismiss it tactfully. It will earn you respect and trust for being honest. and…

we don’t really fancy people who fake interests in us anyway.

so

the sirens have begun to sing…

what’s your next move?

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