May I know your weight please?

Well, this has been on my mind for some time now. Not the literal weight of course.

How does one weigh maturity? Is it on the job he has? The things he does in life? His age? His sex? His physique? Or merely his thinking?

I think we live in a world where we get distracted...vainly distracted. Especially in an Asian community where one is only an adult when he starts working, where before that, he is just an obedient child who does not know enough to go about this 'world'.

I have a question, does a teacher carry as much weight as a corporate financier in this world if not more? Who has more maturity or are both of them as mature because they both have careers? Now just bear with me a little here.

I serve as a facilitator to a youth program and I tell you its something that is on the rise. More and more young people who have not finish their educations are beginning to arise to help the even younger generation develope their capacities to serve the community.

Now tell me this, can an individual who is involved so very much in the education and development of the young be as mature, if not more, than the corporate officer who handles millions in a day?

Yeah sure, the corporate mogul gives many jobs and he is so well versed with the way the world works in cash flow and businesses which in most time literally keeps families alive. But let me advocate a little about what the teacher does, or what the youth who helps the younger ones do.

An individual who helps another in his or her education since young gives hope to the future, he slowly but determinedly forges the sword which will battle its way through a toughened world but if that sword is tough enough and great enough in numbers, then there will not be a need to use that sword. And that is when we know that the next generation is paving a new and more importantly, a bright future in times ahead.

So mayb this serving youth does not know how best to pay bills or cash flows around the market..but he gives a commitment to the world to make it a better place. Can an immature individual think that and certainly decide on it?

Please comment, I'd like to know how you percieve your weight in the world. =)

Just checking

This is not really a post.

I just added this hits counter on my right. I don't believe that my blog has got so many hits. And can I control the size of gadgets on blogspot blogs? Please someone comment to help me...

Here's to you

Okay okay, so I was quite bored at work today because dad took all his engineers with him for an offshore job and left me to take care of the errands and site visits..so when I'm not doing that, it's pretty mundane at work.

So I thought why not blog a little and this time I felt a gesture should go out to all my readers, few or many I really do not know.

You are a lamp which has illumined
many a soul to hopeful smiles,
and I say you must be examined,
for few can go those miles.

You are as the gentle breeze,
on a hot and humid monday,
simple and easy to miss
but takes away the blue'sy grey.

As far as I'm concerned,
you're great from our view,
so would you just stop and listen!
when I tell you to be that great you.

That was just a little something from me to you. Many of us have fallen into this bad habit of NOT lookin at the goodness in people. So why not do a good deed today and tell a friend how much you appreciate him or her? Don't just forward him one of those peachy and rosy mails sugar coated wit teddy bears. Give him a call, just out of the blue and tell him why he is so special to you and how great life is because he is in this world.

Would you not like it if someone gave you that call?

Lest ye forget...

I have a friend who blogs about people who inspire him, I read a few posts from there and I was like wow, I hope my blog sounds nearly as good as this.

But what hit me more is how out of all the people whom he writes about, he writes about how great they are and how great they can be. What? No juicy gossips at all about them?

I have had some experiences lately which has brought me to a rather sad theory and I am wishing so hard that it will not become a norm.

They say the future always lies with the young. And mostly the common train of thought behind it is because the young have more energy, more spirit and perhaps less commitments....

But I think it's because the young still have sight of a brighter future.

Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that all elderly people are to be blamed for. Try putting ourselves in their shoes, how can they trust a community which harbours killers and rapists or even corporate covetuous stakeholders? It really looks that the world we live in is not exactly the utopia that we have in our minds.

Okay, I am sorry to all my dear readers for bringing you into that glimpse of unhappiness. But sometimes we have to see the other end to appreciate this one. But my next question is,

How can we strive for a better world when in our minds we are perpetuating the old one?

And that is why I think the youths have it better, because the youths have not 'lived' long enough to fall into that 'acceptance' of this world being such a horrid place. The acceptance and even God forbid, the expectance of the grave imperfections of peoples around. Some may call it naive to believe in the nobility of others but I say if we do not start hoping and trusting and bringing out this noble side of men in men, are we ever going to make this world a better place?

Lest ye forget, my dear friends, each one on this good earth was given a chance to serve his fellow men and when you think your friend, your neighbour, your teacher or your children are incapable of rendering that service, you deprive them of that chance. Would you not think that is injustice? to let your fellow brother and sister NOT be able to do the right thing?

I am not saying each of us should let a shady character walk our daughters to school but I'm saying if we see virtues in an individual, let us focus on that and not his lack of it.

Let us not punish the good for their mishaps but let us magnify their innate perfections.