Saturday, May 23, 2009

Different Perspectives

I was in the restroom five minutes ago. As I was "doing my business", I read a notice sticked at the door saying "Ladis, Please do not turn off the fan. Thank you very much. :) "

The first thing I noticed, the word "ladies" was spelled incorrectly. The next thing came into my mind was "Hmmm... It is amazing that the writer get the rest of the words spelled correctly." Right after this thinking came into my mind, I was amaze by myself. I am saying this because I used to think "How could he or she got such an easy word spelled wrongly?" However, after I take a step back and look at things from different perspective, I then realized it can make a whole lot of difference.

Then I recall a story of "a black dot in a piece of white paper" told by my teacher when I was 11 years old. You might have heard this story before. One day, my teacher hold a piece of white paper with a little black dot in the middle of it and asked us what we saw. The whole class gave the same answer "A black dot." My teacher then said, "It seems like is a human nature that we tend to look the negative side of a thing rather than the positive side. None of you mentioned the white space in this paper but everybody just noticed the tiny black dot in this paper. Just like we tend to not appreciate a person's good part and take it for granted but always remember the imperfect part of that person."

Therefore I said I am impress by myself. I know I am a bit odd that a notice could make me think that much. I was not sacarstic but really impress when I see the rest of the words spelled correctly. The feeling is good when we know how to look at the good side of a thing and appreciate it.

4 comments:

hoayming said...

u really think alots lor...i heard a sentence of this : wen u r right, no ones remember, wen u r wrong, no ones forget...but, i just wonder, why u wan to make the mistake ler??

Zoe said...

I don't quite get you. What do you mean by "why u wan to make the mistake"? I was talking about seeing someone made certain mistakes and what was in my mind. Do you mind to say it clearer what you mean?

hoayming said...

i mean that someone..why he/she wan to make the mistake..btw..it is true..we oly will thk of the bad thg most of the time.. =)

Zoe said...

I believe the writer is someone whom first language is not English. And I believe he or she did not realize about that mistake. That was why I am impressed to see he or she spelled the rest of the words correct.

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