The forgotten voice... I was watching this youtube clip with a friend of mine. A grandmother was reciting 'pantun' to her grandchildren and it just struck me how the beautiful arrangement of words that are sewn into meaningful advices, a culture of ours, the Malaysians, have been lost with the growing of time. Let alone the 'syair' and 'puisi', most of the younger generations nowadays, don't even seem to portray courtesy and respect towards the elderly and they are getting ruder every single day.
Now let's not play the blame game here. I'm just pointing this out from a ponder. How much have the world change that we as a country, whose people are known to be courteous and friendly, suddenly lack the knowledge to behave like one. How hard is it, to say thank you? Or perhaps smile and try to help the elderly or the poor that's in need? Don't tell me we were brought up in such a way that we only show that much respect and courtesy to the people that we know and non to strangers? It's a mad world isn't it?
Showing respect and courtesy is not a sign of weakness nor does it hurt your pride. It actually shows what type of person you are and how you were brought up... The lost voice my friends... let it be heard again... For the sake of our children and our children's children, so that they too don't grow up where humanity, courtesy and respect for others are lost...
Cheerios
Munawwir Khan Yusoff Khan
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