Are you a true friend?

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We Malaysians are known to be nice and friendly, who are polite and respectful, who are caring towards friends, helpful towards strangers, who used to know not to hurl baseless accusations nor gossip on the unknown, who have a reputation of peacekeeping folks with smiles on their faces ???

Well, that's just a facade, and believe me the facade falls off the optimistic humour when the fierce winds blow (think of the typical Malaysian thunderstorm), and we get pummelled again once too often, all for the sake of self-serving intentions, vicious gossips, unfounded criticisms and whatever negative actions deemed necessarily mending and reconciliatory, but in actual fact grossly misleading and false, all to serve as a perpetual slave to the emo warlords whims and dramatic fancies ..... people do have a nasty streak and it seems to come out whenever their moods takes a turn for the worse. Punctuality, courtesy to respond to our kind wishes/concerns and all other social etiquettes have all but morphed into the selfish ugliness of  "I love being fabulously late", "I've been really busy", "Oh, you called, I didn't notice it on my ipod", "Should be okay for now" (meaning I'll come if there's nothing better to attend) and "Bah, nevermind the delay, at least I responded hokay?!". 

The list is endless...

Are you one such friend?

You can only take so much, and then BANG! All of the sudden, the nasty raging side comes out from the hidden lair and SNAPS! One less deserving person who needs your kind compassion .............

Oh yea, proper social etiquettes out there are hard to find these days. We could only handle so much ugliness..... you look at the same scenery, the same face for too long, the same uneventful lame excuses and then all of a sudden it becomes ordinary and dull, worse still, it shows it's true ugly side, far far from the beauty we had so naively imagined.

Good friendships, like anything, needs to evolve and change for the better ... it needs positive alterations and the tweaking of newfound awareness of care. It needs new shades, light, hues, colour..... it needs a touch up, a reworking .....

Our eyes have grown weary.

Or, perhaps the fading beauty of friendships should only be a fleeting feast for the senses so that it continues to keep the temptous mystery..... or maybe all who believe in the beauty of being socially responsible should have the option of first class seats to a flight out of doomed friendships and those perpetually selfish beings that pitter patter once a while into our lives. We could surely do without their selfishness. I'm all for that.

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibilty, never an opportunity."
- Kahil Gibran

Be a true friend.

 

 

 

 

"Walk on a trail of loving kindness
Walk on a path of compassion
And all else around you will be beautiful."
Every Blessing