三思 | Think Twice

I haven't been updating for a long time... Do you miss me?

Anyway, this might be a highly judgmental piece and I expect it to be hurtful to read for some people. Don't read on if you can't take it.

You have been warned.

I hate to admit it but people connect and correlate. I do it myself. It's hard because it would only appear natural. Let's look at it this way, if you join a particular group/corporation/company/political party/INSTITUTION/etc., people connect and correlate what you do to that particular group. In another word, it'd mean you're now representing what the group represents. Whatever you do now will inevitably be connected to what your institution is all about.

Ok, well, you may have the PM potentially representing what the Malaysian politics is all about but it isn't always the case.

Certainly not this one. Unless, of course, people of that institution continue their support for such disgraceful  immature idiotic interesting... page.

Have people's mentality and common sense been regressed so greatly in the last few years? Have they not realized what implications it might bring?

If you're all question marks, I'm talking about the UTAR Confessions page. I'm going to reiterate my point. It's S.T.U.P.I.D.

People will come to me and say it's none of my business. Or use a cheap shot to say that I'm all self-glorifying trying to be righteous. You see this is not even remotely the point of this whole post. It's about other people, the institution involved and not about me not liking the page.

After a short conversation with a very wise person, I realize that even if I don't like the page (I admit), it is not up to me to decide what is going to done with it. I am just an individual and I would very much love it if an authoritarian figure were to tear the page down.

But "the way to fight speech is by more speech. This is what democracy is all about." She was also right that some posts in the page were legitimate causes of concern. No, I'm not talking about the kinky stories. I could not care less about really senseless people who like spreading their sex life all over Facebook to be read and laughed at by strangers.

And as we all try to be democratic about the things that we say and do, think about it.

What good would you get out of supporting such a page?

What good would you get reading the posts?

What good is there after your little laugh?

A little de-stress moment? A little side-tracking to read 'em kinky stories?

What good would there be by posting those stories?

What good would there be if someone reads your story and knew it was you?

What good would there be by provoking such a response, admin?

Most importantly, what do you get at the end of this?

Remember: connections and correlations. Recall what the name of the page is and what is our identity for these few years.

One word comes to mind: UTAR. Now connect and correlate those posts to yourself. That is what outsiders are going to see.

Respect the institution that is giving you an education. It's an important phase in your and my life. Sure, you can say you're paying for it and you have the right to say whatever you want to say about this institution. However, there are other avenues, other ways to say what you want to say.

Putting your erm... provoking thoughts (can this even be categorized as thoughts? because I don't think they put in a lot of thoughts whenever they post) for public viewing, is akin to running around the stadium butt naked and getting yourself laughed at.

Like this.

Shameful.

We are judged (I wish I could use another word but...) regularly by what we do. But we tend to forget what we do affects, not only ourselves but to other people and things that we are affiliated with.

And a proverb fits so perfectly to end this:

三思而后行

(Think twice before you do or say anything)