Sometimes all it took was one small step

I'm not too sure what made me want to write this post, but I guess, every small step matters for many people, who after that had life-changing experiences.

When I got to know Ephyon, we were quite okay friends. Not really too close because we were in different class. I was happier hanging out with Dylane and Islander, and The Phantom. We were all happy people during Foundation.

Then came the Penang trip, where everyone became emo for something that day. I told a white lie to calm one of my friend down. Something about fathers I think. She loved hers, I hated mine. We both lost our fathers. But yet when she cried because she missed her dad so much, that I guess I just want to calm her down by telling her how I missed mine too. It was a drain, and Ephyon just hugged me from behind and kissed me. I was err...too shocked to react. Because I thought we were supposed to be friends. Then we kept playing hide and seek feelings. This went on until the second last day of the trip. That when he was sleeping, and I was talking with Islander about the possibilities of me being with Ephyon, and I just....kissed him on the forehead.

Then we were together since. No confessions needed.

Ephyon had told me that if it wasn't for that kiss, he thought that I wouldn't reciprocated his feelings.

Phew. Haha.

And then I read one of his coursemate's blog about how she was helping out the Dance Club in Setapak, and then she wanted to know one of the dance crew members, her friend was faster than her and got his number, and at first she didn't want to, but she thinks that if she won't do it now, she might not be able to see them again. (This is exactly from her blog ^^). So she got in touch with the guy that she wanted to meet. She became a fan of their dance crew at first.

And then, they were together.

I bet that if she didn't take that one step to get to know the guy, she would not have had a boyfriend by now.

It is the same for many others. I guess it is just different in many ways. I did know that one small action, it might not matter to us, but it matters a lot to them. I think one of them was, that when I was young, at a kindergarden age, I befriended malay and indian friends. It might not seemed much for me, because I was naturally eccentric =.=. I was a rebel kid la if I dare say it. Constantly creating trouble and what not. But my studies were not too bad, so I did help some of them a bit.

When their UPSR results came out, I didn't see where they were.

I wonder what happened to them, I hope they are alright.

Another one would be the ones I had befriended during secondary school and we still keep in touch until now. Ai, please don't say keep in touch, we still remembered each other even if we didn't have any contacts with each other. And I was grateful to have those buggers (because most of them were boys) in my form 5 life. They made my life so much easier to go through without having to look in despair over those Chinese people who always prefer to stick within themselves.

In a way, I've changed them, and they have changed me. Now, I'm extremely good at mingling with anybody, be it Chinese educated, English educated or just plain people. And they have changed their own mindset about other races, because they know that not all people are like that. Or rather, we did not look at skin colours, but attitude. They themselves also acknowledged that some of their own people have massive attitude problems

Because I'm going to be extremely frank here, some of the Chinese had very very problematic attitudes. I find it even easier working with other races, even when sometimes I couldn't understand Bahasa pasar. (Dang, this is something I need to work on, anyone can teach me? Just kidding, I know I had to work on it myself)

So, most ministers who deserved to step down, were never criticised because of skin colour, but of attitude.

But they criticised us based on our skin colours.

Oh well.

But for all of us ordinary citizens, have you took a small step only to receive a life-changing experience?