As I strolled by the shops today, I went into the Movie/Musical store and got myself the first season of Ally McBeal. Yes that hilarious, yet sensible TV series I watched those years ago. I am surprised at myself because everything was against my buying the DVD collection. One, it was more expensive than most DVD series on the shelf and I had just pulled a new zipper on my spending. Also, no thanks to studying, my TV time has been markedly cut down lately.
The week has been a tedious one. I wanted to reach out to the past and at the same time indulge myself. You know that feeling when you just want to indulge yourself. Yes, indulge in some thing fascinating but calm. The past can be quite an inspiration. It reminds us of how far we have come, how the daunting challenges of its moments have become history.
Back to Ally McBeal, I guess I also wanted to see the world through her eyes today. That twisted, harassed-by-the-world-but-grim character really reminds us to be true to ourselves; that we should take life easy; that life goes on. Indeed.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Saturday, March 19, 2011
THE TEMPTATION
Often and again, one is confronted with people and circumstances that affect behaviour and over all response. It is like this, a simple act of kindness is abused by the recipient to the point that one refuses to be kind.
Our world is diverse and as we grow into adulthood, we are faced with a variety of human behaviour. Without knowing it, one’s childhood innocence is lost. Lessons on human improprieties are often learnt first hand and hence in unpleasant ways. One is then tempted to shut the door of compassion and live to make oneself happy.
Should one hold back alms because the recipient is a “junkie” or refuse a hitch-hiker because the latter may be a serial killer? Another spectrum of this discourse is borne from the unspoken expectation that every act of human kindness should be reciprocated when the circumstances are reversed. Supposing the recipient does not feel obliged at the moment but comes for another favour thereafter?
It’s what I call the temptation not to be one self. Should we become indifferent to people in apparent need because of previous experiences, should the recipient of our goodwill be affected by their ability to pay back, don’t we lose the moral high ground when it is in fact within our power to give such a helping hand, are our actions not merely reactions to others’, are we really our virgin self when our lives is determined by others?
Our world is diverse and as we grow into adulthood, we are faced with a variety of human behaviour. Without knowing it, one’s childhood innocence is lost. Lessons on human improprieties are often learnt first hand and hence in unpleasant ways. One is then tempted to shut the door of compassion and live to make oneself happy.
Should one hold back alms because the recipient is a “junkie” or refuse a hitch-hiker because the latter may be a serial killer? Another spectrum of this discourse is borne from the unspoken expectation that every act of human kindness should be reciprocated when the circumstances are reversed. Supposing the recipient does not feel obliged at the moment but comes for another favour thereafter?
It’s what I call the temptation not to be one self. Should we become indifferent to people in apparent need because of previous experiences, should the recipient of our goodwill be affected by their ability to pay back, don’t we lose the moral high ground when it is in fact within our power to give such a helping hand, are our actions not merely reactions to others’, are we really our virgin self when our lives is determined by others?
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