Stop and Smell The Roses...Now!
When was the last time you stopped to smell the roses? Visit your parents? Just simply chill and do nothing? I'm not getting preachy here as I can be equally culpable of the same things. Some of you are so busy you may be getting your maid to read the newspaper to you every morning. When was the last time you have actually stopped and hold back the door for someone behind you? Say good morning or hello? I had rare opportunities to be on the MRT trains on occasional mornings when the car is in the workshop and I have never failed to realise that almost everybody on the train are without a smile and those were during good times when economic conditions were much better! So what about now where everything is in the doldrums? But sometimes, it takes a global recession of such epic proportion for people and the world to come to their senses much like a jolt from a bolt. It may be a good thing such that our younger generation has first hand experience. Some of us went through som