Land of Futile Hopes
took a cab yesterday afternoon and ironically i was on the way to the career presentation of a certain foreign bank. how this is ironic will be apparent soon.
Anyway, taxi drivers being the veritable store of wisdom that they are, mine starting chatting the moment i got into the cab. Now this chap, drives like my auntie on the way to church gloves and all (talks like her too) and I was running a bit late. But being polite, I usually engage the other party anyway. I do know how bad it feels when no one wants to listen to you.
In any case, the topic of TOTO came up and that's when he said something that really struck. "This [insert synonym for national administration], only good at giving us futile hopes like TOTO, how to win?".
That really hit. People who are also searching for jobs now should know too well what I am talking about.
But more than that though, I think what really we should take away from any of this is this. Its certainly not enough to empathise with the underpriviledged when we are down. How many of us go through life not knowing the other side of Singapore? I'm not just talking about the romantically framed underpriviledged, the old, the sick and the dying. They need help too but I am referring to everyone else, people who don't appear on the radar because they are not "poor enough", the frustrations of being unable to provide all you want for your family in this consumerist society.
Now I am not advocating a campaign or some lame shit movement, all I am suggesting is that it might be time for us to not beat each other up and maybe just lend a hand or some guidance whenever wherever. I think if we give each other a break now and then, maybe more will start happening. Without the need to always wait for the government to do something. I hope I never become too successful to forget this.
Anyway, taxi drivers being the veritable store of wisdom that they are, mine starting chatting the moment i got into the cab. Now this chap, drives like my auntie on the way to church gloves and all (talks like her too) and I was running a bit late. But being polite, I usually engage the other party anyway. I do know how bad it feels when no one wants to listen to you.
In any case, the topic of TOTO came up and that's when he said something that really struck. "This [insert synonym for national administration], only good at giving us futile hopes like TOTO, how to win?".
That really hit. People who are also searching for jobs now should know too well what I am talking about.
But more than that though, I think what really we should take away from any of this is this. Its certainly not enough to empathise with the underpriviledged when we are down. How many of us go through life not knowing the other side of Singapore? I'm not just talking about the romantically framed underpriviledged, the old, the sick and the dying. They need help too but I am referring to everyone else, people who don't appear on the radar because they are not "poor enough", the frustrations of being unable to provide all you want for your family in this consumerist society.
Now I am not advocating a campaign or some lame shit movement, all I am suggesting is that it might be time for us to not beat each other up and maybe just lend a hand or some guidance whenever wherever. I think if we give each other a break now and then, maybe more will start happening. Without the need to always wait for the government to do something. I hope I never become too successful to forget this.
posted by Shininggoat at 11:45 AM
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