Losing a bit of Humanity
I can say this week has been one helluva week....
Firstly miscommunication caused me to work through a night without
sleep to get labels printed out for our works which are gonna be
displayed for visiting fellows from UK.
Secondly, having been falsely accused of not doing my job properly which is definitely false (directly related to me not having enough sleep), this idiot (His name shall not be mentioned) having volunteered to handle the planning for our works to be displayed for the NAFA open house which has just started yesterday rudely demands why certain articles were not printed out which they were but not under my care.
One of the things that comes to mind from that sort of talk in my face when first stepping into the class was to give him a taste of his own wrongdoing, i wonder why people don't think before they speak but in any case i managed to restrain myself from slamming his neck onto the wall and choking him, i never did show anger, i just kept the heat in me and chilled, and from demanding an answer from him i replied rather gently that it wasn't my job and most of the work was being handled by our lecturer so he should ask him if he wanted an answer, i did my part of the job.
At the next moment he tripped and fell (He was holding on to a couple of planks not realising he was rather weak to handle a bunch of them) and landed flat on his back, too bad i didn't had time to take my camera out to snap a picture if not it would be up here, i can say that was a bit of poetic justice that assisted me in cooling down from that brief moment of angst.
The good thing is the class as a whole was kept busy with the setting up of our works for the open house for me to even react the way i did initially in the later hours, but i just felt what would have really happened if i did physically assualted this fellow, would i even gain a bit from this? Probably a reprimand or a suspension, perhaps some of my peers would agree that he was being an idiot in asking me that question the way he did, perhaps that would have thought him a lesson? Probably a change for the better if the choking didn't kill him.
Just as a flood of thoughts flushed through my head in that few seconds, i was reminded that i am no better if i had chosen the latter, the reasoning aside if i did it, i could have killed someone, and that would have caused a load of shit for me.
But i realise God is merciful and gracious in his ways, having reacted the way i did i somehow managed to understand God a bit better, and knowing this has given me great joy, but i always wonder why anger often leads us into doing the unthinkable, anger has been a historical phenomena, it has been responsible for wars and genocides. But til today this problem has not been solved, i guess in the past week the big anger issue on the news has been the publishing of caricatures portraying the Islamic Prophet Mohammad with a bomb strapped onto his head.
People are dying because of the creation of such cartoons, and i can say the rather irresponsible justification of publishing it because it is a right, little that the Newspaper that published this cartoons has failed to realise is that their actions will cause some of the most violent protests to emerge overseas, and probably the needless deaths of many, least i must say that the respondants to the cartoons being the Muslim world, shouldn't act in the way they are right now, it doesn't do any form of justice but just more bloodshed.
So i say let us be more tolerant of one another, be it when we or the other party are in the wrong, for when a man gets killed, he doesn't come back.
Lives are precious
Firstly miscommunication caused me to work through a night without
sleep to get labels printed out for our works which are gonna be
displayed for visiting fellows from UK.
Secondly, having been falsely accused of not doing my job properly which is definitely false (directly related to me not having enough sleep), this idiot (His name shall not be mentioned) having volunteered to handle the planning for our works to be displayed for the NAFA open house which has just started yesterday rudely demands why certain articles were not printed out which they were but not under my care.
One of the things that comes to mind from that sort of talk in my face when first stepping into the class was to give him a taste of his own wrongdoing, i wonder why people don't think before they speak but in any case i managed to restrain myself from slamming his neck onto the wall and choking him, i never did show anger, i just kept the heat in me and chilled, and from demanding an answer from him i replied rather gently that it wasn't my job and most of the work was being handled by our lecturer so he should ask him if he wanted an answer, i did my part of the job.
At the next moment he tripped and fell (He was holding on to a couple of planks not realising he was rather weak to handle a bunch of them) and landed flat on his back, too bad i didn't had time to take my camera out to snap a picture if not it would be up here, i can say that was a bit of poetic justice that assisted me in cooling down from that brief moment of angst.
The good thing is the class as a whole was kept busy with the setting up of our works for the open house for me to even react the way i did initially in the later hours, but i just felt what would have really happened if i did physically assualted this fellow, would i even gain a bit from this? Probably a reprimand or a suspension, perhaps some of my peers would agree that he was being an idiot in asking me that question the way he did, perhaps that would have thought him a lesson? Probably a change for the better if the choking didn't kill him.
Just as a flood of thoughts flushed through my head in that few seconds, i was reminded that i am no better if i had chosen the latter, the reasoning aside if i did it, i could have killed someone, and that would have caused a load of shit for me.
But i realise God is merciful and gracious in his ways, having reacted the way i did i somehow managed to understand God a bit better, and knowing this has given me great joy, but i always wonder why anger often leads us into doing the unthinkable, anger has been a historical phenomena, it has been responsible for wars and genocides. But til today this problem has not been solved, i guess in the past week the big anger issue on the news has been the publishing of caricatures portraying the Islamic Prophet Mohammad with a bomb strapped onto his head.
People are dying because of the creation of such cartoons, and i can say the rather irresponsible justification of publishing it because it is a right, little that the Newspaper that published this cartoons has failed to realise is that their actions will cause some of the most violent protests to emerge overseas, and probably the needless deaths of many, least i must say that the respondants to the cartoons being the Muslim world, shouldn't act in the way they are right now, it doesn't do any form of justice but just more bloodshed.
So i say let us be more tolerant of one another, be it when we or the other party are in the wrong, for when a man gets killed, he doesn't come back.
Lives are precious
posted by Kao Wen Sheng at 2/10/2006 01:14:00 AM
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