What if you were wronged by someone a long time ago, say 7 years. Its a long enough time. Today you meet someone who resembles that figure from the past, to the T. Of course the difference is that the you of today is totally different from the you of the past, the one who always got rejected and thrown about as a joke. How do you not treat this new person indifferently?
What if every time you see this person, you get that awful taste at the back of your throat, that horrid reminder of dejection? Worst still, if you catch yourself giving preferential treatment (positive or negative) to this person because of your own contextual bias, what does that say about you?
Youth may be a curse, but age is surely a slow-acting poison, the kind that kills you by accumulation.
Ang Heng
2 comments:
Your bias says you are human. Your ability to overcome it also says you are human.
And the you of today is not totally different from the you of yesterday; just a case of the same differences.
ang heng mai sian,
gently whisper into the ear of this person 'ord loh'
and all will be forgotten.
alvin
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