It's so easy to complain.
In fact this post is a complaint.
I want to complain, why do people easily complain about some 'trivial' stuff?? Well, firstly, my apology, I also like to complain, so on this Chinese New Year, let's struggle together to accept some things and look at them at different perspective.
I just saw a friend's facebook status about the low frequency of bus on Chinese New Year (CNY). To be honest, I was actually touched that I still see Chinese bus drivers on CNY. Yesterday when me and my friends had dinner together, we thought, "It's quite sad right, you still need to work on CNY." As a foreigner, of course there's a sadness that we can't gather at home on CNY. However, this sadness makes me and my friends thought, how we should be grateful that some people still work on CNY and how these people might wish the same thing like us, to be HOME on CNY.
When I was in New Delhi, I was used to push and being pushed to be able to enter the MRT. Since then, I stopped complaining about NUS Internal Shuttle Bus or the crowded MRT. It's nothing. It's really nothing compared with what happened in India. It doesn't mean that we should stop improving the situation, but not complaining sometimes is a form of empathy.
This year, I was very thankful that my friend invited me to her reunion dinner. Apparently her dad is a bus driver. He told us how some people littered in the bus, especially after eating food in the bus (even though it is prohibited). I told him, "Uncle, I actually often eat in the bus." He told me not to eat in the bus, not that because he is worried that I have to pay fine, but he said, it's because the bus is dirty even though it looks clean. People do litter in the bus and there might be larva of cockroach that we can't see. He told us that the bus company receives 40 complaints per day and once you can identify the bus and the timing, the boss will take an 'action' to the bus driver. He also told us how as bus drivers, they must make sure the bus clean all the time and how the long-route bus driver usually has kidney problem because they don't have proper break to go to toilet.
Honestly speaking, I also often complain to some bus drivers or perhaps grumble about them. Oh not only bus driver, but also some authorities, such as Security Guard. If I think about it again (Fr Mario once asked me about it, what makes me talk in offensively to some people), it's because of pride. It's so easy to feel proud. "I pay school fee, so I 'deserve' good service", "I'm educated, why can't you think like a-b-c", "I've already done a-b-c, why....." and so on and so forth. Now I'm quite worried if I ever thought of sending complaint letter (I've never done one, but I always tell people 'just send complaint letter!'). What if someone lost their jobs because of me? What will happen to the family?
I guess it's not to late to make another new year resolution. To be more charitable and try to live in harmony with other people around us :)
In fact this post is a complaint.
I want to complain, why do people easily complain about some 'trivial' stuff?? Well, firstly, my apology, I also like to complain, so on this Chinese New Year, let's struggle together to accept some things and look at them at different perspective.
I just saw a friend's facebook status about the low frequency of bus on Chinese New Year (CNY). To be honest, I was actually touched that I still see Chinese bus drivers on CNY. Yesterday when me and my friends had dinner together, we thought, "It's quite sad right, you still need to work on CNY." As a foreigner, of course there's a sadness that we can't gather at home on CNY. However, this sadness makes me and my friends thought, how we should be grateful that some people still work on CNY and how these people might wish the same thing like us, to be HOME on CNY.
When I was in New Delhi, I was used to push and being pushed to be able to enter the MRT. Since then, I stopped complaining about NUS Internal Shuttle Bus or the crowded MRT. It's nothing. It's really nothing compared with what happened in India. It doesn't mean that we should stop improving the situation, but not complaining sometimes is a form of empathy.
This year, I was very thankful that my friend invited me to her reunion dinner. Apparently her dad is a bus driver. He told us how some people littered in the bus, especially after eating food in the bus (even though it is prohibited). I told him, "Uncle, I actually often eat in the bus." He told me not to eat in the bus, not that because he is worried that I have to pay fine, but he said, it's because the bus is dirty even though it looks clean. People do litter in the bus and there might be larva of cockroach that we can't see. He told us that the bus company receives 40 complaints per day and once you can identify the bus and the timing, the boss will take an 'action' to the bus driver. He also told us how as bus drivers, they must make sure the bus clean all the time and how the long-route bus driver usually has kidney problem because they don't have proper break to go to toilet.
Honestly speaking, I also often complain to some bus drivers or perhaps grumble about them. Oh not only bus driver, but also some authorities, such as Security Guard. If I think about it again (Fr Mario once asked me about it, what makes me talk in offensively to some people), it's because of pride. It's so easy to feel proud. "I pay school fee, so I 'deserve' good service", "I'm educated, why can't you think like a-b-c", "I've already done a-b-c, why....." and so on and so forth. Now I'm quite worried if I ever thought of sending complaint letter (I've never done one, but I always tell people 'just send complaint letter!'). What if someone lost their jobs because of me? What will happen to the family?
I guess it's not to late to make another new year resolution. To be more charitable and try to live in harmony with other people around us :)
I like this post, so inspiring :)
ReplyDeleteYes! Great reminder. Thanks Da!
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