It's funny to see some of our people never happy with their own people's achievements. And how interesting it is to see how our people question their own people's winning and willing to argue about it because some of 'our people' don't get the same glory or victory as 'their own people'? And these people are really happy when their own successful people come to their downfalls.
'Jealousy' and 'Insecurity' are the perfect reasons why our people have this kind of mindset.
And how harmful it is to us and our people.
This scenario happens everywhere in our society. Be it in politics, schools or just among family members. It just happens.
This is something we shouldn't ignore. Day by day, it's getting worse. It's like an epidemic to all of us, infecting us deep into our souls. Therefore, it makes us lose our own reasonable judgements and in the end, it eats us alive which reminding me of a song titled, "Killing Me Softly".
I'm not being negative but this is what I see these days and it's infecting me too somehow. How I grew tired of it.
Why can't we just be happy with our people's achievements?
What I see in Malay debate today is disappointing.
They keep on arguing who's the best, who's the worst, who should win and their priority is to get all the fame and glory in magazines or newspapers rather than fullfilling the real objectives of debate.
Debate, i take it as something sacred. We debate in order to improve the way we think and to be expressive without any use of violence. Debate is a form of learning process. When a team lose in a debate, they should reflect themselves on their performance, on their mistakes that they have done and not accuse the winning team or the game for being unfair. We should make friends with other debaters, not hate them for making you lose in the game. And those who are already famous for their powerful debate skills, never forget those who are below you. Treat them as equal because you were once, like them too.
Though, not many people think the same way. Boarding school debaters like to set themselves away from Daily school debaters because they think, Daily school debaters are not of the same standard. A proverb ,"Pipit sama pipit, Enggang sama Enggang" is so strong in their blood. It's like Malfoy said to Hermione how mudbloods should not mix with purebloods. And when Daily school debaters start to show that they're just as good as others and able to beat some established boarding school debaters, people question it on how they shouldn't win and create speculations about it.
How sad is that. I believe, there's no ending to it.
1 comment:
if i give you a dollar every time you write about debate, you'd be buying a pair of Manolo boots right about now -- therefore i will never give you a dollar for every time you do so. heeheehee
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