Beyond statistics

This post is dedicated to Sunflower.

Thank you Sunflower for sharing your problems with me :) Thank you for sharing the youtube video titled "Bastards bullying Singapore senior citizen" too.

Before my course on Sociology, my reaction would naturally be that of anger against the "bastards". However, now that I have learnt that most people are a product of their environments, it puts me in a dilemma as to who I should side: The old trishaw rider or the caucasians.

Conversely, I can choose to dismiss it as being mere statistics, something that happens all the time and is probably constantly recorded in Sociology class-power relationships etc, research statistics. Likewise, Sunflower, you my readers and I are the same to a stranger: Mere statistics. However, it ceases to be when we look at ourselves from our own perspectives, as well as from our family and friends'. This is because there is enough love vested in us. Vice versa.

You are statistics to a stranger, but to your loved ones and yourselves, you are not. Therefore, lift your family and friends from being mere statistics because you are special and you have the power to intervene.