| On first impressions and prejudice |
[30 Jun 2005|05:58pm] |
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This time I’m going to talk about first impression and prejudice. When I first got to Singapore Polytechnic, and got to know my class mates. I wasn’t too excited to see or know any of them. I was very judgemental of people and obnoxious. If you have seen my previous post on them when I first got to school, there weren’t really any nice comments on them.
So I got to be in this project group (my first) with Christina, Juliet, Marcus, Sanjay and Zulu. And I particularly had a thing against Christina at that time. I used to call her a bitch and what have you. Thinking back, that was simply so immature of me to say that of someone else.
Why am I saying all these, because after I looked at the picture that she sent me last night. Who would have thought that I once treated her like an enemy (although I’m not sure if she thought of me as one). How much more allies and friends would I have made if I wasn’t so judgemental and self-righteous about everything.
Just because at that time our views were different and our working style clashed. But she was the bigger man(woman) who tried to reconcile things with me. I should be thankful to her for that.
Maybe it’s just because of the Libra (the scales) in me, which makes me so judgemental. And sometime I have to remind myself that I am just like every other human. That I myself struggle also the same struggle that they (everyone) is going through. Maybe not exactly the same, but everyone has an area in their life which they will struggle with, be it laziness, lust, alcohol, smoking or over-eating.
We are all in this(planet earth) together aren’t we? =)
.. and this is christina and me~! =)
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