Tuesday, April 18, 2006
acceptance..
Just today before coming to school, i saw this young boy around 6++ years old trying his best to do the monkey bar to impress his parents. He did it after some tries but in the end he completed the task. He then went over to seek acceptance from his mother. However, his mother was busy talking with another lady and wasn't paying much attention to him. At that point, i really feel sorry for him. I can never forget the look in his eyes. Those eyes protrait to me sorrow and sadness with such depth that i actually feel really really sad for him. Then i come to understand, even if a person were to do very well in something or even defeat the world champion or something similar but there is no one to accept him to appreciate him. It will not mean a single thing to the person. He will just be lonely and left aside no matter how well he does.
Don't all man look for acceptance in people? Don't they want people to see that they have achevie something good? Don't they want friends to accept them to care about them?
But why? Why are there people that aren't aware of this and just brush aside certain acheivements that their child or friend did? Most common answer is that 'it is expected of him/her'. Does this mean that we can simply ignore their achievements as just act as if nothing has happened at all? How do you feel if what you did was ignored? Do you ever think that you have the confidence to do greater things if what you normally do will not be appreciated? Do you even want to improve? I can certainly say that you will feel damn sad and dejected. Once you do that, your performance falls. Then people around you will look upon you as some 'has-been' or just another problematic person having his limits reached.
Shouldn't have let my emotions sway and waste my time. But I feel that if someone were to do something in future, regardless of friends/family/those you don't know, if they did something worthy of praise, don't save your praise. Just say it. I feel that it will certainly make it their day.
Humans are weak mental beings that require acceptance from one another to go on to greater heights. It is all about interdepence between people. I think that we should all understand this and help each other up the social ladder. That's all to it really.
PS - The following are my personal views and if you would like to critise it for being stupid or lame, just go ahead, i don't care a single bit. You can never ignore your feelings and one day you may live to regret it.
KK.. i won't continue and make the situation sad already. Bye all.
Posted by saberX @ 10:36 PM
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