Half-Hearted Effects

It’s common to have low quality teachers when we were back in primary or secondary school, as all we were asked to do was, stand up and read lines by lines. When it comes to tertiary education level however, we have a higher expectation on the quality, especially when we enroll into semi-government or private universities. Truth hurts though, apart from disappointment and demotivation. Looking at the many people around us, we can easily spot the half-hearted souls, straying from one street to another, waiting for the time to pass. With the values we are now paying in everyday’s life, it is such irony that we do not get equivalent level of services. Dealing with the individuals whose faces are as black as the charcoal, we nevertheless still have to include service tax into the bill. It is understandable that a person can never be constantly full-hearted and commit in the decisions made. Nonetheless, is it that difficult to at least do the very best and not just doing for the sake of earning the numbers? When we are the persons who sound the horn and take the lead, we ask for many, many things in order to satisfy ourselves. Such irony, however, when we are the ones who are supposed to provide services and be the followers, we often find our ways to slack and going in between to seek for the chances of being a leader among other followers. When we are half-hearted, we do things half-heartedly, providing half-heartedly-transmitted knowledge, producing half-hearted students, creating half-hearted future. The chain effects are scary, but the half-hearted people who have caused the chain reactions are even scarier. 

Reset

In the current days we are given either the recyclable or disposable eating utensils when dining in some random restaurants. One of the odds is, each time we use the recyclable ones, some of us may ask for hot water or as simple as using tissue to “sanitize” them before using. Perhaps it is our mind that is playing with us, thinking by doing so helps to reduce the chances of consuming “unclean” particles as we place the food into our mouth. In other words, the sanitizing procedures actually function as some sort of reset button, whereby the once-has-been-used-by-unknown-stranger utensils will be renewed within seconds. We are fully aware of the fact that countless people have used the utensils which are now in our hands, but we couldn’t care less, unless we are fastidious with cleanliness and are squeamish over the thought of sharing the same utensils with hundreds of people. A simple observation, but activates numberless neurons firing to more thoughts. Though we are able to reset our mental set on recyclable utensils, there are times when it can’t be helped but to imagine how the previous users might look like. Similarly, when we have a reset in relationships, be it friendship or romance, the probability of drowning back into the possible past exists. We can never truly reset something into brand new, as it merely happens in our mind, that is if we can control it well.