I think we've all done things that we're not proud of. Sometimes these things we do to ourselves (i blew my fingers off when i was 4!), sometimes we do these things to others (i remember slashing a school mate with a pair of scissors when i was 8 or 9). But i think what makes us human is that we have an ability to learn from these errors, the ability to put them behind us, and the ability to live our lives looking at tomorrow rather than yesterday.
Therefore, realizing a fault in ourselves is sometimes worth the effort in making the mistake in the first place.
Been receiving some nasty comments lately on my blog. Some of which i've tolerated, some of which i've had to delete if for no other reason that because they don't belong there. I've reproduced the latest one below for all to see:
A new comment has been posted on your blog Volume of Interactions, on
entry #69 (Easy things the hard way).
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http://www.aizuddindanian.com/voi/archives/000069.html
IP Address: 202.184.182.6
Name: Some1 Somewhere
Email Address: duh@duh.com
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Comments:
Its quite astonishing to read what you have written. Maybe you never thought of things you did to others, sad! I still can't smile because you took away my only reason to smile. Things would have been lot easier for me and they were back then but now its all changed, Thank you for giving me my miseries and making me realise the fact that this world is full of crooked people and to deal with them one has to be crooked. Yeah, you apologized so what? will that change anything? NO! Well, you can enjoy your life as if nothing had happened because for all I care my whole world has fallen apart!
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For the life of me, i have no idea who this person is, or what wrong i could have caused him or her.
Maybe its Roslan, the kid i slashed with the scissors when we were in primary school together. In my defence, he was teased my for having only eight fingers. Being so young, easly hurt over something bad that had happened to him, i know is no excuse for what i did. I nearly blinded him and i'm sorry.
Maybe its an ex-girlriend who i've wronged in some way. There have been one or two relationships that have ended in less that perfect ways, and that's something i also regret. But if problems are going to happen, it better happen during the discovery period that dating is all about. And if those problems are the reason for an acrimonious break-up, better then than 20 years and 3 kids later.
Maybe its just some sore loser, one of the many who i've trashed in my career as a university debater years ago. But hey, i got my fair share of humiliating whackings in this noble intellectual pursuit, and i'm not crying over it. Sometimes you win, many times you'll lose. That's just how life if. No matter how good you think you are, there will always be someone better.
Maybe its just some punk kid, surfing the net, who doesn't know me at all, who just wants to give me some grief and flame my blog at his/her fancy. Who knows? But if that's who you are, get a life, buddy.
Really, at the end of the day, i don't really care. That's the thing about the Net - by being there, its like having a piece of property with the most incredibly porous borders. That is its strength and also its weakness. Ask the music industry; they'll agree with me.
Whoever you are, flame on. I only wish you had the guts to do it without hiding behind a cloak of invisibility. I dare you.
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