Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Sensitive or Observant?
When the train arrives at the station,you stand near the door,ready to alight,looking out,you see a crowd of eager passenger of waiting to board.When the doors open..................
Let me outta that train!
In every MRT stations in Singapore, we will see yellow lines on the floor. Not the one parallel to the platform, but the one that is supposed to make way for alighting passengers. It seems to me that there are only 2 ways of how most people respond to it. First group, stand behind/beside the lines before the train arrives and after the doors of the train open, people still rush in like the lines don't exist even before allow passengers to alight. Second group consists of people that totally ignore the lines.Let us ask ourselves, why are lines there? Reason being, Singaporean do not give way, in other words it’s called ignorant or are not conscious of their actions. Maybe people are just too busy or usually have their minds occupied.
If we have given way to alighting passengers, we will have a smoother and faster transition and we no longer need to squeeze out of the train. The lines being there already showed that we need consistent reminders of the correct actions to take and yet we often ignore the reminders. Are we getting selfish?
We also often see how people push you or cut your queue just to board the bus earlier and find a seat. I do not blame them for it. I’m sure they are not aware of their surroundings. It’s in them. Nurtured over time.
The Chinese AO paper today mentioned about how we should not be affected by others and should live our way. Good in sense that we live because of and for ourselves. Bad as in we do not take other’s feelings into consideration. How can we live in the small world with so many people around us and not consider others.
I believe in taking a step back and review our actions or just to observe others. Simple things like this do not need much of our time and can improve our self-consciousness and awareness of the surrounding people.
~}Dreaming of you @ {3:59 PM}
