“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of The United States
Post GE, an elderly woman said it serves Chiam See Tong right to lose big, she claimed he should stay put in P.Pasir, quoting the saying,
ReplyDelete"Bu Zhi Liang Li". She is the type whom President Roosevelt meant.
To many people, Chiam is the one who dares to take on mighty things, trying to win glorious triumphs, even if hampered by 99.99% failure,than to rank with this elderly ignorant woman. So what if Chiam fails, it's no big deal, face is not worth a single cent, to be able to command respect among Singaporeans all these years is the best reward of all.
And this elderly woman is no other person, she is my own mother.
American culture expects her citizens to "stand up and be counted".
ReplyDeleteSingaporean culture expects us to sit down and wait to be invited to a tea party.