atrocity
i witnessed an incorrigibly disappointing sight the other day. and man, wad really is the world turning into. i seriously think some parents of our generations are seriously contributing to some of the most major damage to bring the world closer to doom. good intentions but inability and lack of understanding and experience to execute them, turning good into worse and the worst...*sighs*
i was in the office on wednesday, preparing stuff to start work. thn there was tis parent who came into the office asking abt the details of the course blah blah blah. of which in tis case, the course was apparently the one i was gonna be conducting. it was the last session of an 8 week program. so the thing is last sessions also usually refers to tests or exams in most cases. so if you're guessing, the last session of the course is a competition.
and there was also a form that the students needed to sign and get comments on. it's the NYAA bronze award. (fyi, NYAA is national youth achievement award, for whoever who doesnt know.) and seriously, i dno waz the major fuss over THESE stupid awards.
here comes the sad part. the mother was asking "worryingly". cos her child was sick. had high fever blah blah blah. made the condition sound so bad. and thn she started asking: oh i heard that there was a test or something and thn there's the NYAA thing. like what's this NYAA. and it goes on, abt the awards, etc. and she quoted that her child said he didn wanna go cos he was sick, and judging by the condition of how i heard it, that shld be the way. but thn again, the mother just continued her sentence in almost the same instant: no. you must (let me emphasise tis. YOU MUST) go. it's a test and there's tis award. it's impt. blah blah blah.
man. the moment she blew out that sentence, my whole perception totally took a 360 degrees turn. from heaven to hell. oh come on. is health more impt than a stupid bloody test and award?! that is total bullshit. i cant believe that all those crap was coming out of her mouth. and yes, after that very sentence she said, every other thing she said was just crap to me. i dn give a damn abt wad other shit she was adding on.
of all the wadever thousand things or wad, i cant believe a parent is willing to forsake a child's health to get the so-called best for the child. best meaning paper-proven "best".
more hearing-evidence that the child isnt in the best condition. the mother wanted to pick her child up after the competition cos she didn want to hav him travel ard that much, since he was SICK. so she asked wad time would b good. but if the child was in such a condition that he cant travel ard on his own, thn to my interpretation, it can only mean he's just not well enough. (but of cos, it's opened to many other interpretations as well.) and being not well enough equates to getting more rest at home and in bed.
so has health taken a back seat over other matters like achievement? like accomplishing a task, a job, a project, an assignment? i mean come on, even such unworthy acts are making its presence well known in the working society. and bcos of that, does that hav to happen on our future generations as well? think abt it, think abt the worst. wad if the person dies along the way? and there goes everything. nothing is gonna be accomplished. all these achievements are but left with no meaning.
no one knows their own bodies best. and if they know they do not want to do something or go somewhere and if they know how far they can push their bodies during an illness, thn others, regardless of whoever it is, must very well respect their decision. taz the least they can even do. LEAST is RESPECT.
to the unsightly truth of wad has happened, i'm left with no other words to say but this. An individual's health has never been any less important than anything. It can only be more important than anything. As an athlete, I find health to be of the utmost importance. Without health, you're nothing but a living corpse.
