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星期五, 八月 06, 2004

This is Me, You Won't Find Another

Jordan McVay has written a piece which reminds me of my own opinion on sexual, racial and religious prejudices, and all the arising issues and conditionings thereafter.

I focus my relationships with people based on their mind, heart and soul. Of course without doubt the color of one's skin, one's faith and one's racial identity are intricately parts of one's complete person. I know that till the very end of my life I will be faced with the challenges of living in a complex world at some point and yes, I will perhaps be discouraged and frustrated.

How do I deal with it?

I stay away from those who think lesser of others just because they are different. If I can I just slam the door on them and tell them to go fly kites. If I do not have that much power, I work around them and endure for a little while till I can move on. As Jordan put it, I am deaf to those who spend their time spitting out hatred and deceit. When a person ask me, "How is it possible that you speak Malay like a real Malay?", I just role my eyes and give them the look which says I do not possess the ability to include pelat just to entertain your stereotyping self, smile and say "Thank you."

All my life I have been surrounded my people who love me and I them. A good deal of these are not female, not Chinese and does not share my faith. This to me is what counts. I am doing quite well in life just because I am blessed with these people. These are the individuals from whom I draw my strength and faith to fight and to persist.

As long as we focus on ourselves and others as God look as us, we will succeed. Perhaps not here where we dwell, perhaps here but not now, but we will.

posted by Pick Yin @ 8/06/2004 01:38:00 下午