I Help People

You know you're having a bad day when your usual sure-fire feel-good techniques (mine, at least) don't work.

Today just happened to be one of those ultra-bad days where nothing seems to cheer me up. And the lowest point just had to be at the end of the day.

However, I'm glad to say that I got out of the bad energy streak soon enough. I didn't plan to keep the gloom overnight anyways.

I realised that I enjoy helping deserving people who are in need. When I thought about that, it kinda made me smile a bit.

Today, a female acquaintance wore suspenders. Then came a point when I was standing behind her. And I noticed that one of the clips on the suspenders at the back came loose. The gaping clip dangled incessantly at me while I couldn't take my eyes off it.

So after about a couple of minutes of staring, I couldn't take it anymore. I asked Idil to carry my stuff to free up my hands and I said to the girl, 'Eh, you don't move ar, your suspenders the clip came off,'

Phew, that felt good like anything.

There was this time in a canteen when I helped a lecturer pick up her stuff. She left this ugly transparent carrier with all her documents on the seat and walked off to get food. Then the whole freaking ugly bag fell off the chair and the contents half-spilled out.

And I so happened to pass right by as the ugly bag hit the ground. I couldn't help doing nothing, so I picked the stuff up and put it back on the chair, trying my best not to look at how ugly the bag was.

So I felt better after doing that. Idil says that I'm noble for doing that.

It is not the social norm to OPENLY help people in Singapore. But I am not the norm, am I?

I cannot care if people are looking. I do what I have to do. It's about me, me and ME. Yes, I'm very self-centred. But at least I'm helpful, right?

It's true when they say 'A little goes a long way.'