"that's a really thought provoking movie..."
# reaches a pedestrian crossing.
"ya, can you imagine that it is real and people can really control their lives like this."
# still waiting behind the crowd at the pedestrian crossing, waiting for the little green man.
"the DVD would be worth buying. Hrmm...i haven't manage to find Mr Rain Man...think i should go to froogle and put that in my wish list, you'll know what to do eh? Ha"
# little red man is still standing there with his hands by his sides.
The impatience sets in and pushed me looking for an explanation.
The pedestrian crossing i was at would usually take less than 30 seconds to change from red to green.
Well, guess what?
Nobody activated the traffic light button.
We are talking about having more than 10 people, waiting, on each side of the road, and nobody bothered to take a quick check on whether the traffic light button had been activated.
So a thought flashed past my mind;
"Is this the reason why there are no innovators in Singapore?"
People are always waiting for someone else to do something about their environment.
People are waiting for someone else to do something first.
If nothing is happening, people simply Wait.
This is the reason why the leaders in Singapore are worried.
We are all programmed to be followers.
Robots that are satisfied doing the correct job, the correct thing, bring home the correct pay, watching the correct show, drinking the correct drink, talking the correct language, typing the well~ correct blog...etc
Nobody wants to stand out, nobody wants to take a lead.
If you write a thesis, you need to take reference from a published article, even if the idea you have to totally new in the market, you need that reference.
If you are applying for a job, you need to have prior experience, being confident on being able to learn on the job is not an acceptable and correct trait to have.
If you are applying for a credit card, you need to show your past year earnings, your current salary simply isn't enough to assure the credit card company that you would be able to pay on time.
Follow a fixed set of rules and you would have a comfortable life.
Be a doctor, a lawyer, a civil servant, a banker, a financial controller, because those jobs worked.
Do not be a singer, a writer, a photographer, a hair-stylist, an artist, because those jobs are only for dreamers, and dreamers are loser, "What are the chances that you would be successful?"
Then the ultimate comes, mass media manipulation, and lack of a thinking brain.
Treat your child with love and tender, becomes, treat your child with 100% love and tender at the expense of basic respect and discipline.
This resulted in a new generation of children that grew up watching some idol programs and yearned to become the next star, because they are being told to do so.
They are all aspire-ers, in another words, wanna-bes.
No problem with that, someone who wouldn't even know better to check on the traffic light button and prefer to wait.
Are you the person to check on the traffic light button, or the person standing there waiting for someone to make something happen?
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