The 2 People You Meet In A Day
|6:21 PM
Been wanting to blog about this for sometime. But, well, the past few days have been nothing short of crazyiness. Hence the delay.
Person Number 1Just 5 days ago, after my convocation ceremony (shall post pictures on this soon) and was on the train travelling to VivoCity to chill out a stranger walked up to me and dumped his namecard onto my lap. This stranger then promptly moved to one end of the cabin (i was seated in the centre of the cabin) and bascially started to steal occasional glances at me as if waiting for my reaction.
Naturally, anybody's reaction would be the same as mine. Utter shock. Memories of namecard peddlers on the Shanghainese Metro kept flashing through my head. But this is Singapore not Shanghai, China. How could this be happening? There has to be some law somewhere prohibiting this? Or am i wrong? Anyways, what i did was expected, where i tried to return the namecard and said thanks but no thanks. The stranger's reaction was nothing short of bizzare.
"Keep it. You will need it....." (Naturally i tried my utmost best to smile and continue returning the card)
"You remember me?"
"
No!"
"STTS. 1 week course?"
"
OH!" (Sudden revelation of being recognised by my trainee from my army days)
"So do you recognise me?"
"
Sorry i don't. I am so sorry about that. Thought you were some salesman."
We proceed to go on chatting about our lives after Army. He went on to enquire about my current employment status and degree i was holding. AND very surprisingly he went on to say he could get me a job in some very prestigious company with very good pay. Naturally i have to turn him down as i am already employed. How strange fate plays out itself, sometimes.
Person Number 2I got off next at Vivocity, had dinner, shopped around and while boarding the escaltor to bring me up to the cinemas to get movie tickets, a stranger who was riding down started staring at me. Which triggered me to look just back (Look not Stare. I'm reasonably polite most of the time okay. ^^) Then he started talking.
"Do you remember me?"
"
No. I'm sorry"
"STTS, signal course. You were one of the instructors?"
"
OH! I'm sorry i could not recognise you." (Looking reasonably shocked and embarassed)
"Its ok. You took so many trainees. I'm sure you get this all the time?"
Mumbling "
No not all the time. Just TWICE today....."
Again. Twice in a day. Naturally my goldfish memory does not help at all. A slightly more comforting thought was that thousands of trainees sat through my lessons, so i guess, a little amnesia time and agian would be fine. Right? haha.
These people i met that day, left me wondering. How many people's lives have u affected through your everyday actions? How many people who remember you course you were once significant in their lives? And among these people, how many do you actually remember or cared to remember? And yet among these people, how many of them had a postive impression of you? The face they last saw, was it friendly or enemity?
Fate is a funny thing. It kints this intricate web, crosslinking the lives of people who would otherwise be strangers before the "immaculate" or "cursed" meeting.
Be as nice to as many people as you can every single day of your life. You never know when these "accquaintances" will come bite your ass off or kiss you on your cheek, one day, many years down the road.
Music: Rihanna - Umbrella
moo.
Daneo.
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