Flu

Selfish: If u say that someone is selfish, you mean that he or she cares only about himself or herself.

Selfless: If you say that someone is selfless, you approve of them beacuse they care about other people more than themselves.



As the bird flu looms,
eminent,
the occasional dead bird found lying around..
yet, we go on with our daily lives,
unaffected,
unworried,
while a meagre percentile of the population is scurrying
carrying out experiments
producing and distributing tablets.

yet, it dawned on me,
maybe bird flu wouldnt cause as much misery
as a flu created within:
the selfish flu.

Gone are the kampung days,
where we run to out neighbour's to share food and stuff
where we treat people as people
and not have the idea
of keeping your friends close,
but your enemies closer.

how often have you taken the train
and see an elderly standing,
but the young feigning?
are you sitting or standing?

why are so many people blaming others
blaming fate
for them being bored or depressed?
who takes control of your own life's reins?

sometimes i just feel like giving a big tight slap
asking them to wake up.
the saying
"do unto others not what u want others to do unto you"
doesnt hold as true..
i'm not talking about harming others
though personally i have witnessed people
with no doubts at all.
but i'm talking about the epithelial layer:
treating others well.

as the world degenerates into a selfish world
we complain, fret,
yet we don't give a damn what good begets

i was at a party,
2 friends didnt want to take the cab home alone
as it would be very costly
and so i introduced them to each other
only to have both of them
came up to me quietly,
telling me something like
"why did you introduced someone like him to me?
my journey home would be a misery"

however the irony,
both go on and on constantly
about being lonely
not finding the right one,
or to live blissfully.

You Get Me?
peoples worlds used to expand..
but now they just revolve around a single man
himself.
selfishness unleashes,
it is so ugly,
it spreads as people give up
and it goes on so unknowingly.

I know it sounds stupid,
but i still give up my seat on transport,
i still throw my cigerette butt in a bin
i try to be nice to people
and seriously...
somewhere within
i know its all worth it
no matter how the efforts seem so..
seems so dim.