Don’t judge a book by
its cover. Sounds very cliché. But as a human, we still judge by the looks, by
how other people dress up, by the first face expression they give us.
Today I drove a car
to pick up my little brother from his school at 5.00 pm. Of course, there were
many cars on the road. I parked my car in order to wait for my brother to come
out. The place was packed with kids and cars so my parking was a little off the
line. I wanna betulkan my parking but there was a boy standing at the back of
my car so I can’t do much other than to wait for the boy to move. And because
the road is wide, I don’t really think it will affect the other cars. Suddenly
there was this one green car nak lalu depan my car. I saw the one who drove the
car was a not a very old, but quite old man with kopiah on his head. My thought
was “pakcik ni nampak baik, baru balik surau agaknya”. But the moment he
crossed my car, I looked at him and he gave a malevolent look and pointed his
hand towards me as if I made a very big mistake. Some may think that this is a
common situation but personally I felt very frustrated with the ‘politeness’
showed by that pakcik. I mean, yes he had the right to be mad at me, but you don’t
have to do those thing, I also had my situation. So he kinda ruin my first good
perception towards pakcik berkopiah.
Few minutes later, I
drove the car back home. On my way back, I saw this one motorcycle keeps
following me. Honestly, the face of the rider I can say macam muka pecah rumah
jugakla. Haha. My thought was, “apelah budak ni buat takde kerja lain ke”. So I
drove faster but he kept following me. Until up to one point, he lintas my car
and said to me nicely, “pintu kereta tak rapat” while showing his hand to the
door of the car. And then he made a U-turn. At that moment I was so speechless.
He ‘followed’ me for a reason while I had a bad perception or judgement just
because his face was like ‘muka pecah rumah’. He actually had a good intention
to tell me about the door. Otherwise, something bad might happen to me.
Astaghfirullah…
I guess I do not need
to conclude. As a normal human being, I know it’s hard not to judge people by
the first impression. But I will try my very best.
THERE’S A STORY
BEHIND EVERY PERSON.
THERE’S A REASON
WHY THEY’RE THE WAY
THEY ARE.
THINK ABOUT THAT
BEFORE YOU JUDGE
SOMEONE.
