Wednesday, June 14
U are invited to a friend's party and boy, u really want to attend it because there are friends there whom u have not seem for a long time. Even though u are terribly busy, u agree to your friend's request to attend it and even perform the best talent there. Even though this means rushing back from another country u are currently in. Even though this means cancelling your clients' appointments, and even risk compensating some money.
However, on the day of the party, a series of unfortunate events happen. Your flight is delayed. You lost part of your luggage from previous transit flights, which contained many important things, such as costumes for your performance later. You only have a few hours to sleep before you prepare to rehearse for the big event. And it was only a few hours before the party that you managed to rush to get back your luggage.
So it's the big event starting! Everyone is having fun, and is looking forward to your performance because you are the so-called King (or Queen) in this item. And it's your turn finally! You step on the stage with pride and proceed with your performance, hoping to awe everyone. Unfortunately, the worst nightmare occured and you cocked up your performance a bit here, a bit there, and perhaps to some, a lot everywhere. ARRGH but you proceeded to finish it off still! The crowd still cheers, but the next day, rumours start flying about your mis-performance. U wished u die...
Isn't this sad? U rushed all the way to show face for the party, yet ended up being criticised horribly by everyone. Of course, criticism is inevitable as honestly, the performance wasn't that great. But won't u be disappointed even more if everyone chooses only to focus on that performance and not on the sacrifices u have made? U are not making excuses, but honestly, u wished people would see your sincerity as well. On how u have rejected some clients (and even possibly pay compensation) to attend this, on how u chose to sleep less to rehearse more, on how u have managed to make it on time for the event despite the rush.
The horrible side of the media is, it doesn't report your sincerity, It only reports your end result. Because everyone would be more interested in how come the reputed performer has failed miserably. Besides, they have no incentive to publish the other side of the story.
Everyone has encountered such incidents before, and we tend to judge people by their results. It's in the nature of people and our education system only made it worse. Get straight 'A's and u r smart. Otherwise, u really are not, never mind if u excel in other areas such as sports and music.
Life goes on despite disappointments. The only way life can be happier is when we live up to our own expectatations and not living for others.
