Dignity

Dignity is an important aspect in keeping a society together. It banishes the feelings of resentment, it promotes a productive attitude and promotes a happy lifestyle free from dissatisfaction.

Dignity is in other words, 'keeping your head low eventhough how high you are'. A dignified person commands respect of everyone around him. But there are of course two extreme aspects when it comes to this topic.

One one extreme is: not having dignity at all.
The other extreme is: too much dignity, until one loses their self confidence

Not having dignity at all

In other words, people who just like to brag and don't know that their brags actually destroys others in the process. When I say destroy I mean cause resentment and sub consciously promotes unfriendly rivalry. Bragging is actually a virus in the society. When people brag, they cause others to brag, and the people infected by this 'bragging' disease will in turn affect others around them. Finally, the whole society is infected with this disease and dissatisfaction occurs.

People having this disease have a few traits in common. They are self centered, they tend to spend more than they can afford, they like to boast to others about the very small blessings they have from God. They interprete everything they hear around them as people bragging. But yet they don't know, that whatever blessings they got, it comes from God. They forget. But yet they say that their families are the holiest ones of them all. How ironic. (Paradox)

Having too much dignity

Having too much of a good thing, or perhaps anything at all is not good. We need to drink. But too much water harms your body. We need protein, but too much protein harms yourself. We need love, but too much love could prove suffocating. So much as we need dignity. But too much causes us to lose our confidence. We tend not to put any price at all on ourselves. We in turn become scared to volunteer. So frail. We who are strong see ourselves as weak. We become to accepting that we let the world become cruel.

Be in the middle

Many great people live in the middle. They eat sparingly. They don't destroy themselves. The chinese believe in a concept called yin and yang which means achieving complete balance in anything. Religion tells us to be medium in anything we do. Not to be an unbeliever and at the same time not being an extremist. So much as dignity. So I hope that all of you could benefit from my writing.

'If' by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

Jangan fikir orang tu hebat sangat

Sejak balik dari internship ak kat Ulm, banyak benda aku belajar. Elok dan x elok. Sejak ak benti keje, ak dah apply banyak benda yanhg aku telah belajar dalam kehidupan harian.

Benda pertama. Ak dah tahu apa yang aku buat aku marah, apa yang buat aku suka and apa yang buat aku melenting. Aku dah tahu maksud ''cakap lebat'' and tahu kalau orang tu hanya cakap kosong atau memang cekap berisi.

Fuu... banyak. Macam2 jenis orang aku jumpa. Orang yang cakap beso, berlagak, tapi kalau ikut realiti x hebat mane pon. Aku pun dah buat satu konklusi iaitu:

Orang pandai takkan cakap kat orang lain yang dia pandai, orang kaya takkan mengaku dia kaya.

Hari2 aku jumpa manusia2 yang suka berlagak. Berlagak pasal asal usul dia, berlagak pasal kerja dia, berlagak pasal sekolah lama dia, keturunan dia, kasta dia. Aku pun buat satu konklusi tentang orang yang bongkak ni.

''Mereka ada satu penyakit nama dia ''inferiority complex''. Perasaan kurang keyakinan diri. Akhirnya mereka bercakap besar tentang benda yang sikit mereka ada sampai tahap nak melebih-lebih dalam semua benda. ''

Nak aku terangkan: ikutilah post aku yang setrusnya dalam bahasa Inggeris. (di atas)