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Just had a gathering with my friends from my secondary school yesterday. Met up with the girls, friends some of ten years. Time files, and we all know that. Ten years, imagine ten years, and another ten years down the road, who will we meet, who will we grow to become to. They have changed who I used to be, and it is only right to know that we are all inter-connected as a whole world.

Well, I am sure everyone of us here know that we are not just ourselves in this world, the world does not rotate around us, neither do we rotate round the world. ‘Wouldn’t it be good if we all take some time out of our lives to look around?’ When you have more time to learn about yourselves, the world, and the people around you, you will be able to do more things for them, and for yourselves. It then isn’t is about ‘Me, me, me’ or ‘We, we, we’ or ‘As a school, as a …’, it is then about ‘As a world’.

When you understand another person’s stand, you no longer discriminate, you do not compare beyond severe extend, you give people their needed mutual respect as a human. To understand, you need firstly to be part of their lives. If you take some time and look around, and know that many people down the road of your life contributed to your life and growing as a whole, then thank them, and help others and contribute to their life as a whole. It may be a second, a minute, an hour, a day, a week, a month, a year, a decade, a century, or a life time. No matter whether the people you came in contact with on the bus or on the road remembers it, you have been a part of their life. It is not that we are so important, it is not that we are so unimportant, it is just that we are normal, just like our comrades in this world.

Talking about understanding, there was this friend of my friend’s friend, and so on. To cut the long story short, the girl made this insensitive statement about a ultra sensitive topic, religion. My stand is, no matter what who we are, where we came from, what we believe in, we are still living on the same earth. Just for that reason that we all share this world, we need to care about how other people on the same globe feel. What each one of us believes in is different, our faith is different, and it is something that cannot just be snatched away from us. Faith is something that helps someone along the difficult and tedious road of life, and no matter which we believe in, it is important to each one of us. So, in simple terms, if one could give the other the respect to their race, religion, beliefs, self… ad so on, the world will be a better place. =D Of course we all know, it is not so simple…

So to start off caring about the people of this world, take some time, if you want, go out and smile to another person…

Taken off the MRT announcing system, code of the day: ‘Sometimes it is the joy within us that make us smile, sometimes it it the smile that make us joyful’ by…. It may look silly when you start giggling and start to feel happy, but, come on, why on? You do not need to smile all day, then it will be fake, but when you feel joyful, try going out and make someone else smile!

Note: Somehow after typing this post, I thought I was crapping away, I do not why (I was typing seriously , okay! ), and thought of deleting this post, but the decided not to, so made some changes, and hope you will not ‘kill me’ this post and this ultra long sentence, which is considered totally wrong in English language. =D Thank you. (*cough) Hope I gave you some food for thought!

Yeah, wait, talking about doing something for the world, here’s something:

From: Pay It Forward

It is a great film, a boy who plays a part in changing the world, and met many others along the way. I love it. Imagine you help three people, then ask them to pay it forward, then six, nine, twenty-seven,… millions… the concept of ‘Pay It Forward’. Watch it, if you have not, it has since been eight years since the film was made, so rent it! You can do that bit.