life has a funny way of telling u how simple things can do wonders and how simple things can also bring about terror.
yesterday i met up with one of my long lost friend...we used to work together and meeting up with her sparked a lot of recollection of old funny stuff. we had a meal at nydc and then a beer at paulanor. good ambience. had fun catching up with her. it was also with her that we recalled some of the recent things that have happened to frenz we shared. one which is a tragic accident. a fren of mine died in a car crash...the whole car flipped. he was a fun fren of ours, hardworking, helpful, jovial and always trying to brighten up our days. i will always rem how he walked into that tiny room of ours and greet us with a big wide smile, a joke even if he was tired out by the day's work. he was a good fren to have. May his soul rest well in heaven and may his family members have the strength to carry on with lives.
it's sad how life is just gone in a blink...that day happened to be my 40th mth with my darling and we were spending our time at sentosa...to think as we did that, a fren of mine would have been witnessing and experiencing a car accident, bleeding profusely and drawing his last breath. how short life can be no matter how long we think it will be. the thought of him under the car...it was something that cannot be recalled without a dull heartache. why should life be this bitter for someone who always tries his best to be more optimisstic and bring joy to others? he had worked hard even till that last minute, he was working.
it's just so...unacceptable....
i recently went to Blue Cross, an institute for ID people and it is a world entirely different and out of your imagination. You can never imagine that people who often are only witnessed in movies, actually do exist and it's not just one or two, it's almost a hundred. Yet what saddens me is not their plight, but how difficult their caretakers' lives may be, how painful their hearts may have been to see someone so close like that. it's also how people shunned them that saddens me greatly. their inability to accept shows the immaturity of their minds, their perception of a role model for their children and the scariest of all, what they would have taught their younger generation about these people.
have our people worked so much that we have lost compassion for one another? are we so engrossed in our own selfish lives to try and keep ourselves alive that we have forgotten to keep our morals alive? why must we fight so hard to save our ego and ourselves from somethings that didnt even have to exist if we had not in the first place created it? kiasuism for example...who created it? don't talk about whoever that caused us to behave this way....a situation and a reaction is always a two way thing...we have chosen to react this way yet not chosen to admit and shoulder the blame. what have we become? like that dude who illegally parked his car, to save his ego, he could actually insist that he is right and even challenge for ppl to call the police to tow his car away... like the aunty who rushed up the bus to grab a seat even when she is much younger than the old ah ma she just pushed out of the way and fought the seat over with....this is disgusting...it's ugly... what have we become? and let's stop blaming others for this and that...FACE the fact...u choseto be like this...accept the criticism...don't deny and fight back and rebuke like u r still the greatest...simply becos...you are not.