Too Perfect
Sometimes we are all too perfect for our own good.
Yeah. I mean, this ‘I-can-do-no-wrong’ kind of attitude that grips all of us, simply because we have too high of an ego; is not sweet, not good, not nice. Hmm…
My friend once asked: "Habis tu, takkan kita nak fikir pasal perasaan setiap orang yang kita kenal?"
My answer: "Well, dear, that’s called tolerance and whether we like it or not, since we don’t live on an island and since we are all surrounded by people (except if you are Emily Dickinson) - family, friends, colleagues, older people, younger people: people we like and even people we cannot bear spend a second with - we have to tolerate. Either that or go stay on an island alone."
We expect people to understand us but at the same time, we don’t take the effort to understand people. Kalau orang tak tegur kita, kita kecik hati, tapi kalau kita yang buat kat orang, kita rasa kita tak salah dan kawan tu yang tak paham kita.
Another friend said amid of a crisis when he was scolded by another friend of mine because of something he did (yeah, he was wrong but the way she scolded him was intolerable): "Takkan dia expect semua orang ikut perangai dia je? Susah la macam tu!" True.
"I am an egoistic person. You have to understand." Too many people have made that statement and personally, I think that just reflects how selfish a person can be.
