Speak Up-Make A Difference
Have you always been the one who sits at the back row, WAITING for other people to speak up? How you always been the one who nudges the person next to you to ask a question/ask for something that you want? Hey, if you want it, then it is YOUR PART to stand up and SPEAK UP!!
In London they have the Speaker’s Corner whereby commoner like you and I can just stand up and speak our minds. In stark contrast, the culture in our country is one where people talk the hell out of something they are not satisfied AT THE BACK of the authority yet do not voice up their opinions even when pestered upon. I wonder if it is lack of courage or the sheer despicable attitude that ’someone else will take care of it’.
Sometimes people choose to shove the duties to others because they do not want to held responsible should anything goes wrong. They rather take a back seat and let other people run the show. I am not saying that everyone should speak up like there is no tomorrow (there is always a limit to everything, some poeple should look into euphemism/tact-the art of talking), yet I think everyone of us needs some motivation and a little reminder that it is ok to speak up in what you believe in.
Of course you must ‘agree to disagree’ with your fellow club members/colleagues in an organization. We all grow up having different upbringing and education background. The people whom we meet so far, help to form who we are today. We are not even the same person this year as last year, so how do we expect someone who grows up in an entirely different environent to THINK like us???
Just like this blog of mine which is public. You may not agree with what I voice up, but please respect my views because this is mY blog =) I realised a lot of people are reading it without me knowing (I found out lately..I am sure there are more out there) And it get sspread around because some people link me up ( I wasn’t informed by the way). This goes to show how people have evolved to gossiping at the water cooler in the office to reading about people’s life on blogs WITHOUT them knowing.
When I made this a public blog, I do KNOW the consequences. However, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages because it really linked me up with some old friends. And I have not revealed my deepest feelings in here because this blog ain’t supposed to be emotional. It is more like informative and ‘pictorial’.
So if you think you REALLY know me after reading my blog, think again. I just wanna end this with this message:
January 26th, 2007 at 6:23 am
hey i agree with you la..
January 26th, 2007 at 9:01 am
Gossiping? That bad? I didn’t hear anything of that sort. Anyway, I’m always the last to know about these things.
You’re one of those who dares to speak up, who doesn’t care what people think of you, as long as you know you’re doing the right thing, and not hurting anyone in the process, which is very good. Really admire you for that!
February 2nd, 2007 at 8:23 am
hear hear!
April 13th, 2007 at 9:54 am
Ure right. Others can’t and shouldn’t judge one by merely reading one’s blog. What’s most important is to interact with that person in question face-to-face to see it for themselve if the person is really what they think. On ur topic of not speaking up, I guess it has become some sort of a sick culture (which I myself find it irritating sometimes). They make use of u for their own benefit but shirk the responsibility should anything crop up