Sunday, October 24, 2010

Good is Evil's Greatest Enemy

Ever since i had a big bite of my life leading through a phase of adolescent, i've learnt so many things, good noble things that is just by observing people. Like what my mother said, "When you buy yourself fruits, only take the good part of it and ignore the bad part, when u apply that to your life, u'll know how smoothly ur life would flow, just like eating a good and clean fruit, u know how ur tummy would growl if u eat the bad part". Credit to my mom for that, her ideas of philosophy is just magnificent and how she could relate the stuff that she said into a major reality check.
Moving on, during our highschool day, there would be a list of types of people and different kind of cliques who hang out together. There would be the athletes or in other word jocks. There would be the hot chick, or the hot beefcake, then the smarty pants, the nerdy ones, the bullllllyyyy.... of course, the la-la's, and the list goes and on and on but the reality is, we all share the same mission, that is, to stay being the person they are comfortable to be, eventhough some of them might not be stay true to themselves. But little do i know that there is this one person, who, i just couldn't label him. He was extraordinarily so true and sincere. He was as if the human's advertisement of BE KIND TO THOSE WHO ARE KIND AND TO THOSE WHO ARE MEAN.
When i was in my third semester, a friend of mine had invited me to pay a visit for his cousin. He was schooling in Malaysia's top boys boarding school and was living in a dorm. He was 16, and my friend J, told me that he was the kindest person a human could ever meet. I thought he was exaggerating, because he's that type of person. So embarked on our journey to meet his cousin, it was a one hour drive journey.
We finally arrived at J's cousin's boarding school. The school was everything that i could imagine. It was big, and boring, and blue and yellow. Ooh how i hate boarding school. It succumbs one's will of freedom. Anyway, i saw the most innocent looking, puppy eyed son of a bitch in the school, walking towards us. J greeted him, oh, of course, it was his cousin. They resembles each other. J had his puppy eye. While J went away to send his things upstairs, his cousin and i was waiting for him. It was hard to start a conversation with his cousin as he is super shy and not to say reserve but so uncommunicative. He didnt make any eye contact with me. His puppy eyes could make every person in this world just burst out in tears just by looking at it. I know it almost made me, well, joking. Anyway, while waiting for J, there were a bunch of big tough guys looking at him and making fun at him. And from that, it escalates to a point where they were being verbally abusive of this innocent kid. I told them to get a life and told them that this kid parents are just around the block. They backed off and walked in the hostel's lobby. I found it hard for me not to use profanity as i almost drop the f bomb.
But suddenly, the boy who made fun of J's cousin stumbled and he fell flat on his face. I could see that he was in excrutiating pain, but, thats for making fun of this poor kid. But what i didnt expect is, J's cousin, ran on to him and helped him got up. J wasn't exaggerating. He was right. The kid has a heart of a gold.
The bully's cheeks turned to red, as hard as he tried to conceal his embarassness plus guilty, it still shows. He didn't say a thing, and just walked away with his gang. That bastard. So i finally started a conversation with him by asking:

Myself: Why were you being nice to him? He made fun of you.
J's Cousin: I know.
Myself: But why?
J's cousin: Because, if i treat him the same way he treated me, it would not make me a better person.
Myself: Ooh.. But i think in ur case, that guy is an exception.
J's Cousin: Nah, i'm different. The only way to defeat the bad ones is by being good to them.
Myself: Right.

A few moments later, J appeared and chatted a few minutes with his cousin. We finally were leaving and said goodbye to him.
In J's car, i was thinking, how could a human, would never hold a grudge and just be so forgiving. So i said to J, " When u told me that ur cousin was the kindest people on earth, u really weren't pulling my leg". He smiled and said "Who said that i was joking?" ;-)