Lifestyles

Being Good Is Weird


So now, am I wrong to have a think that doing good things sometimes looks weird for other people? I know I’m not the only one who ever been in those situations. Sometimes I have been thinking, am I an alien or I‘ve been living in the alien nation? '
By Citizen Correspondent Tika D
Date Posted: 10/02/08
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This is my analysis about some people in Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia. I do not mean to be sarcastic, because I had been in those situations that agreed or not, it had happen. I grew up with a good value of life that taught by my parents since I was a kid. I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, I always put the garbage in the trash-can, I love to help people, etc. But let me reduce those good values into the practical measures and I’ve got a “weird salutation” from other people as the impact.

One day, on my way to home I bought a water mineral and a candy. Inside the public-car, I drank and ate the candy. Because there was not any trashcan, so I decided to carry them until I find the trashcan. The entire passengers in the cab were watching to me like seeing an alien.

In another day, inside the public-car I saw a high school girl was eating snack and threw its plastic inside the cab. Guess what! No one paid attention on her!

Another day, I took a non-AC bus, on a back seat. Suddenly there was a man lighten on a cigarette. You can imagine how the smoke fulfilled the bus. A sympathetic young man asked him to light it off. But the man didn’t care. Until the young man descended from the bus, the man was still smoking. Because that man didn’t notice the word, so I did a demonstrative action by waging my hands hardly to get rid of the smoke. Finally that man moved away to the front seat without lighten up his cigarette. But after that, most of the back seat passengers were watching to me with an understandable expression and obviously not a thankful sight…They supposed to watching him, not me, right?!

Latest, I saw a girl and two men not far from me in a bus shelter. Suddenly there was a woman with a baby came. That woman asked a favor to that girl to taking her baby for a moment, she would clean her cloth because the baby vomited to it. Gratefully, the girl didn’t mind to help her, she took the baby. Not to long after that, the baby cried loudly. The girl tried to cuddle the baby, and I helped her either.


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Re: Being Good Is Weird

By Ganti, October 2, 2008 at 22:22

Such interested story....hm, i agree with the author. Sometimes i'm confuse...is it me or them who's weird?

Re: BEING GOOD IS WEIRD?!

By Lara, October 2, 2008 at 01:36

This is a very interesting experience. I've been in some of those situations too. And guess what? The people react just like in that article! Gosh. Anyway...it's a nice article. Keep up the good work.

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