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.