I do not know how to explain how am I feeling right now. But what I know is that it is a mixture of offended, angry and insulted. I felt offended by an opinion given by one of my classmate. A few weeks ago, we were given a few topics on opinion speech. The topics were Learning English, World Peace and the Quality of Young Graduates in Malaysia. We were given an assignment to write an essay based on the topic that we choose. As for my group and I, we chose Learning English. Okay, that was no what I wanted to talk about now.
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Actually I wanted to talk about one of my classmate that chose World Peace as his topic. Okay, that was an interesting topic to choose. After completing the essay, we have to present it in front of the whole class. So, today was his turn. His opinion was, there will be no world peace in this world. Okay, at first I wanted to accept his opinion. I know and I understand that it is hard for us to actually achieve world peace. But when he kept on talking about his opinion, I felt angry and offended. Why?
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1. Because he said that all humans are cruel. Well, mister, a bit of correction there. Not everybody in this world are cruel. When you say everyone in this world is cruel, you are pointing at yourself too.
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2. He also said that, 'don't ever dream of world peace'. He was talking about Nakhbar Palestine (I'm not sure whether that's the correct spelling, Sorry if the spelling is wrong.) that happened about 60 years ago. He said that nobody did anything. So, till now, the Israeli are still doing the same thing to the Palestinians and still we did nothing. Because we are cruel. Oh man, you got that wrong. You might not see what others did because you did not do the same thing. You might say people are wasting their time by doing things and end up nothing happened, the war is still on and what ever it is. You said things like that, because you never did your part. We, here, have done our parts. At least we did something for them. We helped them. Encik, tolong tu tak semestinya kita kena pergi berperang sekali dengan diorang. Sangat banyak cara untuk tolong diorang. Kita bersuara, kita sign petition, kita boycott barangan Yahudi, kita derma kat tabung untuk Plaestin. With those things, they actually menolong sedikit sebanyak.
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3. You said that people are wasting their time by signing those petitions and when our PM send that thing to US, they rejected it. I don't feel that thing as a watse of time. Don't you know, dengan cara tu, bila ramai dah bersuara and so on barulah Israel berundur? (Do correct me if I'm wrong).
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4. You also pointed out that we Malaysians are so proud with what we have. But we did nothing with those things. You mentioned about the new jet, I can't remember what was the name of the jet. Starts with S something something. And yeah, I can remember clearly you mentioned about the new submarine. Hello mister? Did you know yang the submarine is still in progress? Memanglah submarine tu dah siap, tapi bukannya boleh guna terus terus macam tu je. Still need nak train lagi nak test semua benda lagi. Macam if nak beli kereta baru la, kena test drive dulu. Bukannya baru keluar dari kilang dah bole terus pakai macam tu je. Dude, do think before you nak cakap apa-apa. Jangan cakap pakai sedap mulut je.
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5. You also said to those who did not agree with you, please wake up and be realistic. There's no such thing as world peace. I am awake right now and I believe that you are not rationale. Anda cakap ikut sedap mulut je. Sekurang-kurangnya, saya ada menolong sedikit sebanyak daripada tak tolong langsung. Setidak-tidaknya saya tolong orang yang seagama dengan saya. Orang yang seIslam dengan saya. Awak tu? Apa yang awak buat? Awak bukan je tak buat pape je, awak siap pengaruh orang lagi untuk tak payah buat apa-apa. Saya bukannya nak berbangga atau bermegah-megah dengan apa yang saya buat, tapi saya sangat sangat marah bila awak cakap macam tu. Walau sebesar zarah pun awak tolong, biarpun orang lain tak nampak, tapi Allah nampak. Nanti bila Allah tanya apa yang awak lakukan untuk tolong orang-orang yang seagama dengan awak, apa yang awak nak jawab? Awak pengaruh orang supaya tak payah buat apa-apa? Huh. Walaupun saya ni taklah pious, tapi saya taklah sejahil awak. Saya tak pentingkan diri sendiri.
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From what you've presented, I can conclude that you actually know nothing but instead you act like you know everything. It is true that he who knows does not speak. He who speak does not know. That clearly represents you. For me, you are the one who should wake up and think rationally. Don't jump into conclusions easily. If tak nak buat, jangan ajak orang lain, and jangan sakitkan hati orang lain dengan kata-kata awak. Awak macam merendah-rendah kan usaha orang lain.
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I'm done.
xoxo
-zafirahrosland
