Life Has Always Been - Complacence

You may ask any children what their ambition will be and their typical answer is to be a doctor. Why, you may want to know. The answer is simple – “I want to help sick people!”

The simple truth is that somehow everyone will get sick and has to consult a doctor. A child will revere a doctor because like Mary Popping, a child is made to get well with those pills and liquid.

No parent will take the child when visiting a lawyer, accountant or architect for the matter because there is no reason for a child to tag along. Wanting to help another is the virtuous primordial feeling any child is blessed with. And that is compassion! However, sad to say that in the process of growing up, children are exposed to everything that evil has made its claim on.

Some grow up to be God fearing but some grow horns on their foreheads.

In our country, people work hard and pay their taxes, even though endless. It is with a hope that such taxes can be intelligently ploughed back to sustain the economy and with the manageable cost of living to take the burden off the wage earners shoulders. But, it turns out not only otherwise but also chaotic through wanton mismanagement. This is where the government has failed us to the core.

It is like rubbing salt to the wounds where a new breed of the “dreaded species” that is rich, powerful and politically well-connected are sprouting at every corner. They robbed, stole and killed and could get away with it, yet nobody could stop them. Such plundering is beyond words and comprehension so to speak. By insinuating that nothing can stop them is downright paranoid.

People work hard, play by the rules but when they need help, “they” give you the rope to hang yourself. Uncountable smart students are deprived of their tertiary education and their parents are left in the lurch because they don’t have the financial means. On the other hand, those who are not qualified are fed with privileges down their throats. This is where the people should wake up and know where they stand.

People have to be in such predicament because they allow it to happen. Politicians voted in to run the country are all fine actors especially when it comes to breaking the law. They have all the money to make simple-minded people go away or dirty work fixers can make people disappear for good. They have the law on their side and they seem untouchable. This social malady is spreading like cancerous cells and can only be stopped when the people are ready to make the change. It is the people’s power that matters most but not rhetoric.


All law-abiding citizens are patriotic without having to stand below the “Jalur Gemilang” and sing the national anthem. In their hearts lay the love for the country that counts. In our country selective arrest prevails even singing the national anthem in a peaceful gathering. To be unpatriotic, one is deemed to be a traitor to the country but to be patriotic one has a price to pay as well. How are we to be true Malaysians when we have Hobson’s choice but to hold on a double-edged knife?

Have the people seen, heard or learnt enough to get out from their comfort zone to stand up and be counted for the change? It is your prerogative because it is – you are what you eat syndrome laced with complacence. So, don’t ever utter any complaint but to accept what you want and allow it to happen.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year my fellow Malaysians. God Bless!