Giving and Getting
About giving and getting…
Everyone expects things from everyone, but does everyone expects themselves to give? When there’s something good ahead for you, everyone comes to share, and even the beggars and strangers on the street are you friends. Then when you need something from them, they give you all sorts of excuses.
There’s a quote that I read somewhere… they are only 2 people who’ll stick up to you when ‘you’ve lost your job, loose your love one, finish every single penny in your wallet, and go from bad-bad situations to horrible-vegetable situations… The first one who’ll stick up to you is your friend, who’s situation is worst than yours, and probably still needs your help… whilst the second one is, your friend… your true friend. But on earth, you’ll more likely end up with the first "friend".
I’ve been through these situations where I’ve experienced the true nature of human beings >> Selfish. It’s true, everybody’s selfish. But to people that I call "friends" and to those who claims themselves as my "friends"… maybe when you choose to perform your "sel-fish-ness", you’d like to NOT cross the borderline.
What make me post this?
The choir’s Food sale. It was an old plan to earn some extra cash so that the choir members doesn’t have to fish from their wallet to pay photocopy money. Every Saturday, 2 members (originally) will co-operate to get-together a simple food sale stall in the music center. One will prepare the foods whilst the other will sell. Or, they could BOTH prepare the food and BOTh sell, depending on themselves. But now what I heard and saw was people pushing away their duties to others, NOT because they couldn’t perform it, but WOULDN’T perform it. And the "others", of course will feel reluctant to perform the responsibilities that belongs to somebody else one time after another. And nobody wants to pay extra for photocopy money, and is happily using the choir’s fund for it. But NOBODY wants to work for it. Hahahahaha…Since when there’s free lunch for everybody?
Then like when I was captain/director for the musical last year… If you’re in choir… let me ask you this… Which picture is more clearer?
1) Us singing our finale, snapping pictures together for a happy ending
2) Us at the celebration party, having fun BBQing
3) Us having problems getting together for practices because everybody doesn’t wants to come for extra practices and couldn’t decide whether we should add on longer on Saturday and leave certain people out or add on longer on Sunday and leave other certain-people out.
I bet that if I didn’t write the 3rd one out, none of you would’ve had it cross your mind. What about the "props-problems", and the people wailing to quit RIGHT before the show? Har? Don’t quite remember? Where were you when all the problems occured?
1) Busy complaining about how the management can’t do their stuffs
2) Busy stabbing people behind their backs
3) Busy pitying yourself because you have to follow people’s stupid orders
And when the choir gives everyone good stuffs like competition trophies, musicals fame, enjoyable discounted trips… when the choir is on its bright path with the sun shining down on its roof, everybody cuddles in together. But when the choir meets up with some stormy day and needs everybody’s help to bring it together… suddenly everyone’s gone?
Sad. Very sad.
