Here's an excerpt of a stranger's reply on a conversation i intentionally (without foreseeing the backlash!) took part in quite recently:
"Perhaps I understand where they're coming from, but i have been at a disadvantage for way worse and way too long to care."
And so their suffering took a higher plane because they wanted to comprehend only their side of the story.
Maybe we've become too sensitive. That in the quest to defend our rights, we tend to dehumanize (and perhaps demonize) those we think stand in our way.
When most times, we're the only ones who stand in our own.
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What do we do?
Would menjadi manusia yang baik suffice?
Words can only go so far and until and unless it parallels with our actions, there's only so much we can say.
I don't know. What say you?
1 comment:
It is never wrong or right to feel certain ways -- even if you are the only person in the world feeling it.
Possibilities, potentials, fears; what are they, really, if they don't move us to act? But most of the times we don't.
Most times, we sit and think. And (worse) just talk.
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Guilty as charged. :)
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