The title for this post is kinda long and it's in bahasa Malaysia (or is it bahasa melayu ?) but let me translate it from bahasa to English. Direct translation would be "Germs across the seas can be seen, but elephants in front of the eyes are not seen". Basically it means, we can see all the fault in others even the very small things but we are totally oblivious to our own fault.
It's pretty easy to listen to gossip and make our own 'theory' about it. And sometimes we gossip around, just to have fun without realizing that even we don't really mean it but if the person itself heard what was said about him/her, they would be hurt by it.
What compelled me to write this, well I was on Facebook reading my friends status as usual *evil grin* Then my cousin post a link about some Sabahan famous personality. Well, I don't mind that but what struck me so hard is the comments people are saying. First we do not know the whole story of what has happen, and we only know what the news wrote about them. And most of us know that the news like to exaggerate and hide the truth especially juicy gossip about famous personality especially. And secondly who are we to judge other people, only God have the rights to judge.
I was incense actually, but then I told myself who am I to get mad at them. Ironic isn't it. Well, I'm not that perfect too. OOhhh I love to gossip last time, I love to put other people down. It feels so good to say how terrible this person A is cause it makes me feel good. That's why people like to gossip, it empower the gossiper. It makes them feel that they are the cream on top of all the people that we are above them. Just to hide the fact that we are also full of faults.
And it took me to really fall down hard from the top of the pedestal to realize that I was actually a hypocrite asshole. And that's why… For those people out there that like to talk about others please look into yourself and ask yourself one question "Am I perfect?" If yes, then do go ahead and talk and degrade about other people. If no then it's better to keep those thoughts in yourself, you never know when karma will comes back and bite you on your ass.
And to avoid karma biting me again on my ass, whenever I start to gossip and talk about others, I have to remind myself of the below saying;
Kuman di seberang laut nampak, Gajah di depan mata tak nampak
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Ya ya... Gossip is not good, very dangerous actually. One can affect another one's perception on others even though it's not true.
I also admit that I do gossip but I try to do it as minimum as possible haaha... or at least, try to exclude all the negative sayings hehee.
Ba ko nda bagitau sepa celebrity tu... I'm wondering.
:) hehehe hard to not gossip also kan. cause we are so use to doing it.. simple non-harming gossip for me still acceptable but malicious gossip need to be avoided...
Daphne Iking ba, really pity the whole family.. and especially her little baby..
Yeah..Gossip is bad. Most people know it but they can't help doing it. You're right. we should remind ourselves not to be negative all the time. :)
lizee: yabah.. so true, kadang2 when we are among our close friends we just can't help doing it.. :)
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