Thursday, July 12, 2012 | 8:36 pm
Been a while since I last posted here...I wasn't actually planning to revive my blog or anything but reading a comic book and a talk by my sergeant major really got my head thinking. And obviously twitter could only hold 150 words, I'm not going to spam all my followers feed with maybe like 100 new posts?
First and foremost, I'm gonna ORD soon. That's why my sergeant major(BSM) wanted to talk with all the guys about how to clear our leaves and offs and whatever. He was getting a bit pissed off with how we abuse the off system and take our offs like no one business and likewise, we were pissed with him for interfering with our plans when we were about to ORD soon(ORD LO!). So, he went on to nag as usual and it went into a certain point where he talked about something that struck me deeply. He said he read from somewhere that the world is made up of 4 groups of people:
Group A(Noobs): Not
WILLING and not
ABLE.
Group B(Slackers): Not
WILLING but
ABLE.
Group C(Dedicated):
WILLING but not
ABLE.
Group D(Passionate):
WILLING and
ABLE.
He said that the reason why he nags so much was because when we first entered the NS/battalion/battery(did I mention I was about to ORD?), we were the
Group A people. We were civilians entering a new phase of our life and of course we were unwilling to go to field camp and able to survive tough training just after leaving our comfortable lives behind(ORD LO!). That's why he had to constantly nag and make rules so that we are forced to follow and won't get into trouble.
When we finished our training, we become either
Group B, C or D. Some would choose to do lesser work(
Group B), some who are slower in learning but are willing to put in the effort(
C) and the very few people who are so garang that they would do anything at anytime even at the cost of their own leisure time(
D). *C and D people are usually referred to as suckers*
I guess most of us fall into the Group B category. We take things for granted too often. 'Giving up of seats to the elderly is not my responsibility cause I'm not at the priority seat', 'My friends are organising something so fun but it clashes with my duties so I shall take MC', 'I won't get rewarded anything if I help you out so why should I' are all present day attitudes that are corrupting us individually and the society. And the scarest part is that I feel that I'm starting to become one of them. Just because I'm going to ORD soon and suddenly during my Monday duty, I was constantly harassing my admin spec for my offs. It wasn't until later that day that I found out he had a lot of things to do and I have been nagging at him for a benefit which I'm not entitled to. It makes me feel bad and I want to apologise for my actions.
So for now, I'm going to end this post with an apology to Shrek. Sorry for bugging you and thank you for planning our offs and leaves. We go drink together next time ok?
'It's easy to die by your own decisions but it's difficult to order someone to die for you.' - Cyclops