Cool On The Exterior, Warm Within
Finally A Good Deed!
Thursday, June 08, 2006 @ 9:00 PM
I am proud to announce that today, for the first time in my life, I successfully gave up my seat to the elderly. Before you start thinking that I'm an immoral citizen, lemme explain. It was not for lack of trying but somehow I almost always land in awkward situations when my better self surfaces.
I find it uncomfortable when an ah peh or ah ma boards the train and young, healthy me is occupying a seat. Thus, I would sometimes, pluck up my courage and rise to give up my comfy seat. However, these elderly citizens whom I deemed weak and in-need-of-a-seat, are not what they seemed. They have always turned me down and insist that I return to my seat. -_-" How paiseh is that? And like a dog with its tail between its legs, I retreat to my seat meekly, bravado deflating like a balloon.
That's why I often hesitate now before I decide to be a heroine. But today, I'm glad I forged ahead. Thank you, ah kong, for granting my life-long wish. Thank you for putting down your ego to accomodate mine. Thank you! :)
Seems like our moral and civics lessons back in school have really ingrained a deep sense of social reponsibility in us. Just ask any primary school kid what should be done when he sees an old woman on the bus and I bet that he would give the politically correct answer.
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On another note, I sidestepped a crawling snail on the steps while on my way home today. While my first thought was that it would definitely be squashed at this rate of movement, the one that stuck in my head was the image of it being dissolved by falling salt.
