It's been a really long while since I've blogged and many things have happened and changed since. The World Has Changed. Nobody Expected Trump To Win The Election And YES, HE WON IT. Neither Did Anyone Expected The Malaysia's Currency (Ringgit-RM) to collapse. Good for you if you love eating and shopping in Malaysia.
Now, it's been three months since I've enlisted and somehow, I ended up getting posted to HQ manpower. Yesterday, we had a trip to the Red Cross (Lengkok Baru) to celebrate Christmas with the less fortunate. I can't even remember the last time I did volunteering so it's been a really long while.
Never expected this trip to have such a huge impact on me. Those residing at the Red Cross were mostly handicapped in the different ways that I couldn't even think of. It hurts. But what hurts more is knowing that each of us are able to speak and communicate in our so called 'human' language and yet we can't seem to get our message across.
I tried.
I really did.
I got rejected.
But it didn't feel bad.
Because I knew deep down that they were in many ways different from us.
The bad I felt was because no matter how hard I tried, I can't seem to get some of their attention. Some just look around, some just didn't react. And you know it totally sucks. TWENTY years of my life, I've learnt to communicate ever since I was crawling around when I was a baby up till now, a young adult.
'COMMUNICATE'.
Really? Can't say I can communicate when I can't even make someone who is different from us respond to my gestures.
All I wanted to do was to wish them a very Merry Christmas. An occasion most, if not all, celebrates. They are human and they should join in too.
The activities planned for them that required their participation also failed to bring out the joy in most of them. It was as if they were in their own world. We live in the same world but different sub-worlds.
The only take away was that I was given the chance to feed one of the residents there and I can feel how hard it is for the volunteers at Red Cross. The challenges they face everyday is something that I don't even know if I can manage for a week. It's something really respectable.
What have I been doing for the past twenty years?
