Saturday, June 03, 2006
things happen
checked into friendster just now and was drawn to this particular blog entry...the earthquake that happened at yogya...killing 5000+ people.. and the writer of the blog was so affected by it that he actually cried in the middle of a typical working day... he had many comments from the entry.. most of which saying that they identify with the feeling and they too feel the sadness and sympathy for the victims...and that its a natural feeling.. natural humanistic feeling..... there was a comment that went something like padan muka they are cursed for all the killings that they have done....that they get their just rewards... my thoughts.... all those people who commented are hypocrites... yeah i do sympathise with the victims and their families...in reality.. thats all.. i feel sad it happened to them.. but at the same time, its God's will. cant really go against it don u think.. but face it lah.. we only can feel sad and sympathy... life goes on as usual... we still get up and go to work... we still bitch abt our bosses.. or low paycheck.. or the weather.. or the traffic.. or the people.. or the crowd... we still go eat at restaurants... filling our tummy with good food with no regard to the people who are facing hunger... my point is... out of the 4 million people in singapore, how many percentage of us actually do something about it.. actually get up and do something different about our lives.. we always say after every disaster that we are lucky to be in singapore.. that we shouldnt be so selfish anymore.. but given a sum of money and the chance to migrate to another country say australia, would you take it?.. i would.. im not saying im good and all ya people are bad.. but we are a selfish bunch of people...fact is the sadness only remains as long as the news remain in the newspapers and the daily news broadcast.. after that what do we remember of it?.. wat happened to the victims of hurricane katrina? the tsunami victims at thailand, at aceh.. we forget abt them.. except those few people in mercy relief and other organisations.. well.. fact is.. we cant do anything about it... we revel in our comfortable life here... don pretend that it affected us so much.. cos it didnt.. if it really did, we would have done something.. quit our jobs join mercy relief... but we still not willing to give up the comforts of our lives.. we only say we feel sad cos if not we would be labelled unfeeling... and sure we cant let that happen...
Darnisha â¥
11:57 AM
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