My dose of Yami after retail therapy with my cousins.

I saw livejournal's writer's block this morning and even though it's a touchy and sensitive topic, i think it's a good idea to make an attempt for my first writer's block. I've never been good with words but i do have a lot of things to share. My lack of vocabulary and 3 years in Polytechnic (without the guidance of Mr Taufiq and other awesome English teachers) has made me become a person who doesn't have much to say. Because i don't have a wide vocabulary. I'm turning 20 soon and i'm embarassed.

Anyway, back to the actual topic.

Writer's block 18th January 2011 - Do you think the society can truly overcome racism?

I'm not being a pessimist when i say that racism is here to stay for most of our lives. The society will never be able to make true of how colour does not categorise people and their personalities or habits. Neither will they stop classifying people by their skin colour. Why? Because humans judge. Even the most perfect person on Earth judges every person he sees or encounters. First impressions are always assumed to be permanent impressions (or habits or conduct). Humans judge. The first thing that comes to our mind when we observe something is a judgement that we make without thinking deeper into the situation or a person. Most of us do not spend the time to analyse each other. First impressions determine everything for most of us, though long-term relationships may mean a totally different thing. When you walk past hundreds and thousands of people on the streets (though we may not have the luxury of time to gather our thoughts and opinions of everyone there), we often comment on how they look, how they dress, how they walk, how they talk and how they behave. All these are actions that have to be 'read' before we can infer. But ultimately, an image of the person standing before us (or walking pass) reaches our minds first. Hence of course the first thing that we take notice, is their colour.

I'm not sure if i'm making sense here but what i'm trying to make sense out of this is... In my personal opinion, racism can never be totally overcome until WE ALL stop judging one another totally. When we are able to put aside all our prejudices, discrimination, history (of how Blacks used to be slaves) and nonsensical beliefs (of how darker-skinned people are 'dirty' or 'unclean'), can the society rid this thing called racism. And of course, there are a lot of other issues alongside racism which is making the whole world fight with one another. Tolerance is something that we should think about. It's hard to NOT judge someone. Even so, we should learn to tolerate differences because there are billions of different people in the world. If you're living with only people with your kind, you must be living in Heaven or somewhere else, just not Earth.

Yet of course, the world will never be a perfect place with rainbows and unicorns.

School has been very taxing for the past few weeks. We got past 3 semester tests so far and there's another next week and the week after. Oh it will never stop till we graduate. Semester 3.2 is so... Saddening and frustrating at the same time. They're piling up so many things for us before we graduate, and it's not like i'm looking forward to graduation either.

Anyway, i met my Liaison Officer on my way to class this afternoon and heard some good news from her. I'll get the full story from her tomorrow but i felt so relieved after what she told me. And i felt good the whole day so cheers to that. I just hope i won't be disappointed like how i did a month back. InsyaAllah (: Amin.

PS: Stranger was the first person who cheered me up this morning. So happy over nothing, really.

, osn.

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