一种米 养 百种人

I just spoken to Meei Meei not long ago. Apparently she has been suffering from depression for her past and present college life. You know, it's like to the extent that she even comes with the notion of committing suicide. Well, as I've been-there-done-there, it just slit my tissues so hard that, yea, this is the world full of people with various faces be it for not single or multiple faces on a body. It's just like what the cast sang in The Phantom Of The Opera and the line goes like..."masquerade, paper faces on parade!"So yea, her story is revolving in friendship and apparently she feels that she has been exploited and used by her college friends for doing most of the assignments and courseworks without receiving credits that she supposed to have otherwise. They took her for granted without appreciating her efforts. To my surprise, I had similar encounter too during my past semesters which constituted to much of my depression those days. What I'd like to say is.....depression is too much to compensate for the encounter which in the other way, not worth to shed a single tears over them. We are born with different dispositions and raised in different environment. Sometimes they might feel that they are right in their point of view because they have been taught that way. Similarly, you can make firm your stand too in your own view, nobody's wrong just so we need to know how to accept the others at the same time when we insist on ours.

Most of the time we thought what we are doing might be right could be turned out wrong as well, perhaps against the "normal" course. Life is all about toleration and adaptation. Tolerate the good and the bad, learn to adapt to them knowing that those are inevitable. We have seen hypocrites all around us, in fact there's no truth in this world. We lie, we make-believe, we dwell in people's shadow, we potray what we are not, we pretend, we show off to impress, we go against our will, we live up to others' expectation and forgo ours...to be worse, we have to go on about infringing people's rights, badmouthing, jealousy, backstabbing and went all devastated. Seriously, although everyone has their right to do things within their boundaries sometimes there are just people who'd cross the line. In this case, I'm not gonna talk about Ryler v Fletcher anyhow. Duh! That's obsolete. Those who attempt to go beyond their business, they are just plain faggots! Losers who don't have the guts to do the right thing. I swear if I was 2 years younger than now I would have swear out loud in their faces but the thing is I ain't teenager anymore with the fact that I'm well-educated (kononnya). We deal in the way people of our age does.

In a broad sense, hypocrites is not just about an ancient philosopher. But it has been given an adj. characteristic to describe someone who OFTEN veil themselves up as what they are not for sakes of impressing others or to achieve certain who-the-hell-will-know motives. That is the lowest class of all creatures on earth after the roaches. However, in my view, "hypocrite" means more than that. People who doesn't appreciate, people who take things for granted, people who loves to impress people with what they are not, people who thinks they are always the right one, people who being discreetly high profile, people who failed to comprehend the genuine meaning of "friendship", people who never learn their mistakes..................the list goes on unexhausting.

Now do you realise there are plenty of mixed personalities beneath that flimsy masked layer of epidermis? That's why you can't doubt the ability of rice in Eastern society cos afterall 一种米养百种人(literally means one kind of rice is able to foster umpteen of different personalities).

I hope I don't sound like confucious or preacher here but actually I don't always practice what I preach, you know why?

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When you are confronting a hypocrite yourself, do you think patience and mercy are ever needed, just do what the hypocrite did to you cos you don't have to put yourself in his/her stinky shoes. An eye for an eye!

Sekian.