The Malaysian nation has recently came to my concern. It involves a huge part of us who are discreetly neglecting to give a glance ahead of improvement. What we need to know is that the people need to be more sensitive about the surrounding more than just trying to live with it.
I think the Malaysian government needs to take proper action in order to compromise with these issues. The nation, the least that it could provide is to focus into whatever achievements they can reach with all the resources provided and subsidized by the authorities.
Lately I've been confronting many selfish acts that with naked eyes, may not seem very disturbing or hurting. Most would prefer to describe these tiny incidents as petty things. However, if seen in an other way around, it is a vital instrument that could either harm the building of a nation or save it by prevention.
I have yet touched about the huge agendas that reads on the everyday newspapers. This is just a sight of moral values that we usually face in our walks of life.
Apart from that, respect is the piece that I'm trying to put together this time. I feel overwhelmed by the ads on the radio stations nowadays mentioning how important it is to put oneself along with the others by lending a helping hand. "You don't need to dive into the ocean to save a life."
All we need to do is try to be more sensible and concerned over the things that are happening around us. These are some of the common things that could be of simple examples for us to ponder:
- Stop or slow down when you see someone walking over a zebra crossing knowing that you have the advantage of relaxing in your seat with the air conditioner blowing against your face while he or she is sweating to reach a destination.
- Stay in line whenever you're queueing knowing that everybody else in front of you is waiting as long as you're standing.
- Do not complain when you find somebody with an unpleasant smell or torn clothes (e.g. in an internet café) for you may not have the idea of how hard his or her life may have been.
- Chat discreetly in public transportations as most of the times, you are not the centre of attention. Rest is.
- Be polite in your conversations no matter whom it is you're facing for you might not know that perhaps you're going to be his or her candidate in an interview at 9 o'clock.
It is not necessary that only the above points should be taken into consideration. They're just examples anyway. What I really mean is that these petty things could mean a lot when you do the right thing at the right time, be it for others or for your own moral input.
In other words, respect does not only mean to look up upon someone who has reached far beyond expectations like sailing across the world's 7 seas but it also means to accept and empathize what one has been through as a symbol of our understanding towards that other.
As a conclusion, developing a nation is not just about maintaining a national GDP at 7 to 8 percent every quarter nor it is about increasing the level of output or production of a country. We need to always return to the basic means, to becoming the best of our kind. Remember, "to err is human, to forgive divine."
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