C/LTA TAN J. H. CLEMENT
[20]
[12/12/1990]
[Ductus Exemplo]
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NCC Central District
HIHS NCC
RP DOAL
FCBC DE Tribe
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Today on my way home from work there was a scene on the bus i was on, A child was singing songs, doing what children do and being a joy to her family, when later on a man sitting at the back asked if the mother could do something about the noise the child was making, saying he was getting a headache and he couldn't stand it. It was quite clear from the way he spoke that this man was a little unique, born slow and easily agitated. But apparently the mother didn't notice it and started lashing out a lecture at him. The man got more agitated and raised his voice after which the father threatened to beat him up, he did raise his voice but it was in a manner which a child would when he was frustrated and couldn't understand things. "Have you been in my shoes?!" after being lectured to put himself in others shoes. The father was later stopped by me on his way to the man.
The father especially. What do you have to prove and what can you achieve out of beating a man like that!? I didn't have to say anything cause my uniform probably did the talking when i stood up in his way.
Are Singaporeans getting too proud that we have to behave this way? I'm
sure it's not the majority of us but from social media these attitudes
have increased.
While I understand that the family may not have noticed this man was born different, it irked me that both sides simply didn't understand each other, a child is a child, yet the man didn't ask to be born this way. I tried explaining to the mother that he was slow, soft enough to not let the man hear, but I'm truly dissapointed at the way the whole family, father mother and grandma was lashing out at him. Could you not see he was different? You lecture him about putting himself in others shoes, that he wasn't acting like an adult, but did you take a moment to observe and realise that he is different and i'm sure as heck he didn't ask to be born this way.
I feel a massive empathy for the man. Really. He didn't ask to be born that way, God knows how many times he's been treated negatively in ways he cannot understand. Why can't people be more observant and understanding? Did you really have to dish out lecture him just because he asked you to keep the child's noise level down? did it make you feel powerful and feed your ego? No one else wanted to stand up for him. Perhaps I should have said something before the matter escalated. Sigh.
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