Perspectives
It's been almost 6 months since my court case against my previous employer, who refuses to pay me my hard earned wages. Today, for the first time since the court case, I message my ex-colleague whom, I must admit, I was pretty pissed off with. It was actually one of the videographer whom I used to worked with encourages me to talk to her, as he said there were some misunderstanding between us caused by the ex-employer.
During the conversation, I finally heard from her the entire story about how my ex-employer suddenly disappear one day with all the equipments, and the amount of money that he had owed her in all. And of course, there were certain misunderstandings that I had about this ex-colleague that had been ironed out today as well. Once again, things have prove me wrong that, whatever that has been presented to you right at your face may not necessary be the truth. Of course, you out there, might think that, "Then what makes you think that, whatever she said is the true?" Oh well, I do have to give her my benefits of doubt, then again, it's her sincerity that tells me, she is not lying, and I choose to believe what she said. Of course, on top of that, the explanations that she has given me could be verify by myself. As such, back to basic, never let your judgments be blinded by what you have seen with your eyes.
For the past 6 months, I have been complaining about how sucky my life was, for all the miseries that has occurred. Until recently, the ex-videographer told me, "You really very lucky to run away so fast, at least you got back part of your money." Initially, I didn't really see that as "very lucky", rather I see it as a misfortune and kept thinking, "How how how? The fellow ran away and I still have $800 bucks with him. how?" But it was until today, after talking to my ex-colleague that I come to realised just how lucky I was. Putting aside the fact that, something like that actually happened in my life. View this entire issue from another angle, I was lucky enough to make the decision of leaving the company and charge him to the MOM's court while he was still in Singapore, and getting back part of my wages. Ex-colleague, together with another freelancer and translator who freelance for us, were not paid a single cent for the efforts that they have put into the projects.
When there is a small black dot on a piece of white paper, most of the time, people would only focus on the dot and ask, why is there a dot that destroy the entire piece of paper. Very seldom do people realised that, there are a big portion of the white paper that was not destroyed and could still be used to write or for other purpose. In this case, I must admit I am one of the majority who sees only the black dot and ignored the white. And today itself, I have come to realised how, "Seeing things from a different perspective," could really make you a happier person sometimes.
During the conversation, I finally heard from her the entire story about how my ex-employer suddenly disappear one day with all the equipments, and the amount of money that he had owed her in all. And of course, there were certain misunderstandings that I had about this ex-colleague that had been ironed out today as well. Once again, things have prove me wrong that, whatever that has been presented to you right at your face may not necessary be the truth. Of course, you out there, might think that, "Then what makes you think that, whatever she said is the true?" Oh well, I do have to give her my benefits of doubt, then again, it's her sincerity that tells me, she is not lying, and I choose to believe what she said. Of course, on top of that, the explanations that she has given me could be verify by myself. As such, back to basic, never let your judgments be blinded by what you have seen with your eyes.
For the past 6 months, I have been complaining about how sucky my life was, for all the miseries that has occurred. Until recently, the ex-videographer told me, "You really very lucky to run away so fast, at least you got back part of your money." Initially, I didn't really see that as "very lucky", rather I see it as a misfortune and kept thinking, "How how how? The fellow ran away and I still have $800 bucks with him. how?" But it was until today, after talking to my ex-colleague that I come to realised just how lucky I was. Putting aside the fact that, something like that actually happened in my life. View this entire issue from another angle, I was lucky enough to make the decision of leaving the company and charge him to the MOM's court while he was still in Singapore, and getting back part of my wages. Ex-colleague, together with another freelancer and translator who freelance for us, were not paid a single cent for the efforts that they have put into the projects.
When there is a small black dot on a piece of white paper, most of the time, people would only focus on the dot and ask, why is there a dot that destroy the entire piece of paper. Very seldom do people realised that, there are a big portion of the white paper that was not destroyed and could still be used to write or for other purpose. In this case, I must admit I am one of the majority who sees only the black dot and ignored the white. And today itself, I have come to realised how, "Seeing things from a different perspective," could really make you a happier person sometimes.
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