Tuesday, June 20

Social work....why don't some people get it?

My involvement with the basketball coaching is solely based on social work. Yes..social work means no salary, no pay....just the love towards basketball and the kids, and the feeling and needs of contributing back to the society.

Just imagine, travelling from KL to JB,5 hours trip by bus, almost every weekend is not that easy. I need to have enough rest, to recuperate, as fast as I can before the starting of a new week. Quite a number of times, my bus leaves JB at 7pm, arrives in KL at 12.30midnight, and straight away start working at 2am.Until recently , my boss gave a remark," are you sure you have a place to stay or are you just camping at the road side?".

I'm not complaining about the trip - as by now, I am so used to the travelling and having just enough rest to start work the next hour or the next day.

BUT....there are just some people out there who do not understand what we do. Who do not believe that we are doing this sincerely by not getting anything back in return. Just the look on the kids, celebrating and having fun, makes our day, satisfy us at the end of the day.

These people, among all, are the people who are supposed to be close to them. Who are supposed to be their mentor, their guide, their motivator, their temporary parents. Somebody who they can respect - a respect that should be earned and not forced.

How could this somebody, whom they respect, they look up to, stabbed them on their back? Stabbed us with a long samurai sword (if I can describe it in words). Not only with a stab, but again, and again, and again. These girls have respect for you, how could you do such a thing? The memories that they have , especially in their Form 5 years, will last forever - especially when they almost becoming a champ. Almost!

Not only the girls, I had high regards for you when the 1st time we met. I respected you.I thought you were different. I thought you were one of the 'rare' ones who would understand the needs and wants of the girls. Well, I was wrong. Totally wrong. One story after another, which I heard from the girls and also another reliable source, made me realised - I was damn wrong about you.

What makes me don't understand is:

-why did you do that to hurt the girls' feelings?
-why did you scold them for the things that they do not have control on ?
-why, you, as their 'guardian' supposed to take care of them, did not do so?
-Do you hate our 'organisation' that much?
-or do you hate the way we interrupt you and your so called 'responsibilities'? as if we are telling you what need to be done.
-or do you actually hate me in person?


Well, if you are a gentleman, do come to me and explain. Unless you've got no balls to do so. Hmm....looking at it, you might even try to make a joke out of this issues.

Let me repeat this again...we are here to do social work, social responsibilities. We've got nothing to lose.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Well in my opinion there is nothing new about it what you had expressed. Safina these scum bags will be there in our lives forever. Thats why god also doesn't like them much, otherwise they also will be living in heaven. God has realized that they had done a mistake by creating them, he himself also wanted to get rid of them.

Well these people deserve a nice punch ( yeah a punch of Mike Tyson will do the magic ). They will just bully you forever unless and until you screw them. Honey give them a nice lesson,they really need it!!! Please be kind to them and do some humanitarian work by kicking and punching in their hard asses and off course!! their damn faces...!!!