Easier said than done

Not much flurry but still, we are conducting a by-election here.

I wish POLITICIANS try their hand at growing up for a change.  I tend to see the worst in people/groups, during election rallies/speeches.

A journalist wrote about the results showing whether Singapore is a forgiving society.

Frankly, our policies are not, if and when looked deep and hard.  On the surface, it is.

EASIER SAID THAN DONE

Officials everywhere sign Agreements for climate change and still, it doesn't really translate as a one-minded Agreement when indiscriminate burning of crops still send the swooping haze to visit several times a year.

Likewise, our belief system teaches us to forgive and forget. But after a long term in jail, many ex-convicts still have problems integrating into society.  Some still struggle to get work.  Society has forgiven them, which is why they are out, but that doesn't mean that translates to reality actions.

Countries say, we will control foreigners holding top jobs, yet in the mall and high-end residential areas, we still see high-paying expats lumbering in their yard in their top-end cars.

It's not about whether this society is forgiving - it's about other peoples need to hold on to absolute power.  It's happening everywhere.  No one wants to vacate a seat for another and let him be the pin in your arse.

Trump bashed the media many times for being bias.  It's the truth everywhere.  Whoever has the gall to break their 'rice bowl' right?  But when he said it, people in that industry got offended.  Truth hurts.

We cannot build a first class world - because nations are far from being first-class in their heads.  Trump blasted his way because he's right and he knows it.  He had TIME advantage - time to be loud and prove he is right.  Only TIME can help support any truth.

Here, we don't have that luxury.  Everything must be done at a snap of a finger - so people don't have time to mull over anything and will be forced to use history as a yardstick.

If we still use history as a yardstick - what's the point of asking if people are forgiving.  History says, people never do that and people never learn.

So why ask a silly question.

If everyone just did their job and stop low-balling, perhaps society can really make progress.
I wrote months ago, that it's TRUMP and Clinton.  I am right.

But then again, for an average earning non-scholar person, I guess my opinions are not important.  My past is colourful and I certainly don't know how to play ball.  I am not a YES person.

So this little by-election we are having - frankly, it's just paying lip service to the constitution.
People are blind, deaf and don't like to take chances.

Result - we top all the lists that I cannot be proud of.  This city is not a land of opportunity.  It's the land of hard work until you drop dead.  All those covered walkways isn't going to make our life, earning a decent living easier.

Easier is easily said than done.

Stop bashing others.
People also have families.
People don't change, but they mellow with maturity.

Back anyone in a corner and see if they react.
High Profile siblings also bite each other - we just are not privy to it, because of some gag somewhere.

This society needs to grow up and develop that thinking skill.
It's not about forgiveness.
It's about being the bigger man.