The 6th C - Compassion

On the day of my medical leave, I yet read another article that I would love to share. I totally agree with the writer that Singaporeans need compassion.
Here is a list of things that I hate about the attitude of our fellow Singaporeans.
1. Hate it when they refuse to move to the back of the bus which will jam up the boarding area.
2. Hate the flock of pushers who force their way into the trains.
3. Hate the people who would push and ruffle their way among the crowds just to be the first in queue for the big sale.

How many a times I have seen that there is no compassion amongst our Singaporeans. What is the possibility that a man fainted in the middle of the road jammed with millions of people and none would stop and pick him up.

Like the little child that fell off the escalator, I can picture the scenario that people would just stare and watch looking at the poor child tumbling down the escalator thinking that they must be making a movie. I shall not bother.

It did happen to me some nice and not nice events. You know those elderly selling tissues all around Singapore? I would usually buy tissues from these people and my trend is that I will give them a 2 dollar bill but just taking one packet of tissue. The market rate is 1 dollar for 3 packets I think. So there was this day this Chinese New Year, I saw this old lady at Somerset MRT selling tissue. So base on my normal routine, I walked up and handed the lady a 2 dollar bill and requested for a packet of tissue and she told me the tissue that she is selling is 3 dollars a pack. OMG!!! She is out to cheat on me. But anyway I gave her an additional dollar and left leaving myself disgusted and unpleased.
I hurt my back last year and it was so bad that I could not even sit properly on the train. When my stop arrives, I had difficulty getting up and this lady quickly walked up to me and offered to help me up. I was so touched. She escorted me out from my seat and out of the train. The train left even though the stop was not hers. She waited for the next one.

I saw this lady having difficulty breathing at Suntec Convention Hall last Saturday. She was panting real hard and lying next to a pillar. There were millions of passerby but no one stopped and helped. I approach her together with the security officer. She said she was okay and shortly after she got on the cab. Bless the lady; hope she is safe and sound.

The morale of the story, take a short break from your life and enjoy the surroundings. Make a contribution. Put yourself in other people shoes and see what you can do to others and stop complaining about what others do to you. Should we curse the nature to say that roses have thorns or should we thank God that thorns come with roses?

Take a minute and read this.
A man was walking down a deserted Mexican beach at sunset. As he walked along he began to see another man in the distance.
As he grew nearer he noticed that the local native kept leaning down, picking something up, and throwing it out into the water. Time and again he kept hurling things out into the ocean.
As our friend approached even closer he noticed that the man was picking up starfish that had washed up onto the beach, and one at a time, he was throwing them back into the ocean.
The first man was puzzled. He approached the man and said, "Good Evening Friend, I was wondering what are you doing?" And he replied, "I'm throwing these starfish back into the ocean. You see its low tide right now and all these starfish have been washed up onto the shore. If I don't throw them back into the sea, they will die from the lack of oxygen."
"I understand," my friend replied "but there must be thousands of starfish on this beach and you couldn't possibly get to all of them. There are simply too many and don't you realize that this is happening on hundreds of beaches up and down this coast ... can't you see that that you can't possibly make a difference?
The local native smiled, bent down, picked up yet another starfish ... and as he threw it back out into the sea, he replied, "It made a difference to that one!"
You may feel like you cannot make a difference in the world today, but you CAN make a difference in one life at a time.