respect

Having quite a debate on Nickeline’s blog. I tagged a lot of my opinions on his tagboard. Mainly because i have quite strong feelings about the issue.

To me, the issues are Respect between a child and parent, and blogging.

I really have a bad feeling about blogging this, haha, think i might get flamed.

Anyway issue number 1, respect. Some parents  feel that the child should show respect to them and not argue with them. I am VERY against the “I am your father and thus I am right” Luckily, my parents still give me some room to, erm, have a “creative discussion” and they listen to me. This being the case, i respect them a lot, because not a lot of parents are willing to listen to their child, some would use the “I am your father/mother” line, while some simply dont care. I feel that in this day and age, parents should open their ears, and i say this in a non hostile manner, and listen to what the children have to say. But i also have to say that children of today, including me >.<, are getting well rebellious. They are our parents after all, and i applaud them for raising us till today, it’s no easy task. Respect should be given when it is due. So it’s more of a give and take releationship.

Issure 2, blogging, especially about someone who might have did something wrong. Again, i can see both sides. On one hand, people feel that one should not be afraid if he/she feel that he/she did nothing wrong, on another hand, some people feel that personal affairs, like what happens in a household, should not be so readily availiable to the general public. In other words, very loosely and inaccurately summarized, some parents feel that blogging about personal family matters is a big no no… no matter who is right or wrong.

Well put it this way, it’s hard to clearly say who is right and wrong. On one hand if the accused party has did nothing wrong, why is there a need to be afraid publiclity? On the other hand, some matters are too personal that even if the accused party has done no wrong, it shouldnt be publicised. And we being human, tend to go with what is to our advantage, meaning, if we are the accused party, we, well most of us, say that the matter is too personal to be disclosed, and thus shouldnt be so easily accessed by the general public. On the other hand, if we are the accuse-sea ( it’s a make up word, i have no idea how to spell it), we would say that, in Singlish terms mind you, ”You do nothing wrong what, why so scared i blog?” 

*looks at post* I think i’m going to stop here, i lost my train of thoughts, and frankly, i’m not sure what i’m trying to say either. haha, and i think my command of english isnt that good yet, quite hard to find the correct words to describe some stuffs, so i have to resort to singlish to explain my point, as you can see from the previous paragraph…

Oh, and this is just my personal opinion, i hope no one gets offended by anything mentioned or said here, and if i have so ungraciously done so, you have my deepest and most sincere aplogizes.

And please post your comments on this, i want to know what you guys think, but more importantly, my blog hasnt been getting a lot of comments recently haha =)

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~ by shun on June 11, 2007.