Sharing this on a Monday noon! A teacher is talking to a taxi driver. They dont know each others occupation. When the taxi driver reveals her occupation, the teacher immediately looks down on the taxi driver. Both their children has got cancer, and ironically, the taxi drivers child is much more stronger mentally. Okay, this is just a scene from For That Day (my ninth novel, available in all bookstores), but this simple scene tells a story that is happening somewhere out there, right now: Someone seems to be always looking down on us, despite us being contented with whatever we have. Youve Bs in your results, and are happy with it. Eric approaches you with his As, and indirectly mocks your Bs. Youre contented with your Bs, but Eric continues. He seems to be implying that youve got bad results. Youre a security guard in a shopping centre, taking pride in your job. You keep the shopping centre safe. During your patrol, you see your ex-schoolmate. A handshake, a few sentences exchanged and after a quick bye-bye, you feel it: Hes looking down at you. Youre not over-sensitive, trust me. Because people don’t use direct words to look down on you. They wont go, Youre just a security officer? Im a manager! Theyll do it subtly, and you feel it, not hear it. You see, the problem never ends. Its never about your results or your job that contributes to this: Even if you get As, or work as a CEO, therell still be people who look down on you. For example, you get all As, and people think youve got no life. Youre a CEO, and people think youve no friends. If others want to put you down, theyll find millions of ways to do so. So whats the solution? Im a novelist, so I dont know the best solution. But being a writer who uses primary-school English, whose English is as bad as kindergarten kids and who writes very predictable stories, Ill tell you this: Theyre doing this so that theyll feel better. It’s never about you. It’s about them. They’re insecure, and youre merely an item for them to feel more secure. And if so, what does that mean? It means whatever they say has got nothing to do with you. Why let their ego affect your life? Youre happy and theyre not. Thats all it matters. What do you think? Please share and like this if youve enjoyed reading it! Can a female university grad marry an ITE grad? Read one of my novels, A Singapore Love Story (all my novels are in bookstores now), here: goodybooks/asingaporelovestory.htm
Posted on: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 04:10:00 +0000