Saturday, August 13, 2005
How good can a Smart guy be... - 10:56 AM
How good can a smart guy be, or how smart can a good guy be? What is the definition of a good guy? A lot of us do charity or volunteer work, alot of us help our friends at all cost, but r we really good people? Being a nice and good person, there is alway plenty of chance where people will take advantage of you and you, even knowing it will be smiling and say its ok. So in that sense, how can this person be label smart if he let people take advantage of him? Most of us do things for a reason, like some people donate because they want they name to be publicised. Companies organised charity events to promote themseleves. Some donate to take part in lucky draw. Some help others because they want to be labeled as a good person, or just to feel good? Me? I don't know why I do nice things. I just feel like doing it at that point of time. But then again I ask myself why I don't continue in my volunteering service now? Just because its not as meaningful as I thought it would be? SO did I started joining coz I thought it would be meaningful and enriching to my life? I do not know, and I hopefully hope not. Of coz to those of us who at least do kind stuff(better than those who do not and go around taking advantage of others), I guess we are pretty nice people, but not to the level of being a saint, coz being uni graduates, I somehow feel its beyond our nature to be taken too much advantage by others. When the good and bad equation dun seem to match for us anymore, I guess we stop being nice. To friends we seem to have super high tolerence, to enemies we simply have none. Luckily nice people dun have much enemies.A president needs to be charismatic, nice, and represent Singapore. In other words, his records must be flawless, and almost a saint. But sometimes when you suddenly come out to jog in East coast park and shaking peoples hands, talking to people and expressing his ability to speak chinese, you feel things are not right. Being a smart person, he sure knows when to do "good" things when needed. Yet a president need to be a smart person and a good person. Which really makes it hard for a person to make both ends meet, especially when he is being paid "peanuts".