Childhood Fears

Everyone has experienced childhood fears in their lives be it the fear of ghost, darkness, insects, exams and many more. Some may have overcomed them, but some may have not yet overcomed it. So today I'm going to talk about my childhood fears.

When I was young, I used to go to the night market with my parents. We usually go to the one at Taman Mega which only opens on Sundays. After dinner, my father would go there to buy some fruits and I would follow my brother everywhere hoping that I do not get lost in the crowd of people.

While walking along the streets, there are many beggers. There's young ones and old ones. The begger who is a mother would sit on a dirty carpet and beg for money from us with her child in her hands. She even had a few child with her sleeping on the carpet. Another one I remember is the an old man without limbs and the way he look, i can't even describe it with words. Yes, my childhood fear is beggers.

Actually, I do not fear the beggers on the street, what I fear is to be like them. I don't want to be like them. I was always wondering why are they begging for money on the streets? Where are their parents? What happen to their limbs?  Did their parents abandoned them? I was scared that my parensts would abandon me as well and I would have to join them to beg for money on the streets. So, I was scared to go near beggers at the night market.

But one day, I overcomed my fear. This was due to some talk in my primary school. There was a person who came to talk about stress during my primary school days. There was one sentence he said, "People worries about everything, some worries that they wouldn't get married in the future, some worries that they might become a begger in the future. Relax, just have fun!" After listening to that, I realized how stupid I was to worry about tiny little things like this which have a 0.0001 % of happening to me. Being a begger, HAH!

Nowadays, when I see the beggers on the street, I would go to them and give them some money. I'm not scared of being a begger anymore! Because I know, I have the ability to support myself in the future, find a job, buy a house, get a car. I've got rid of this childhood fear a long time ago. So relax, and have fun!

Redo: Discrimination Lives Within Everyone

What is discrimination? There are direct and indirect discrimiantion. Direct discrimination occurs if a person treats, or proposes to treat, someone unfavourably because of a personal characteristic protected by law whereas indirect discrimination has been simplified by removing existing technicalities and providing further clarity around the factors to consider in determining whether a requirement, condition or practice is reasonable in the circumstances.

Everyone has carried out some act of discrimination, although it is wrong to judge others based on certain characteristics. We discriminate other people mostly because of  the influences from people around us like family and friends. When people around us discriminate other people, we tend to discriminate those people too. There are many forms of discrimination such as religion discrimination, race discrimination, job discrimination, age discrimination, size discrimination, disability discrimination, wealth discrimination and many more.

First and foremost, lets talk about the most common form of discrimination, race and religion discrimination. Since Malaysia is a multiracial country, race discrimination happens very often. There are three main races in Malaysia which is Malay, Chinese and Indian. Racial discrimination is a problem affecting young minority teens today. You may have notice that if you have been observant in your daily lives.

Next is religion discrimination. The four most popular religions in Malaysia are Islam, Buddhism, Christianity and Hinduism. Every individual thinks that their religion is THE religion and believes that all other religion are inferior. Some individuals go to extremes in the name of their religion, case in point the burning of several churches that caused a religious uproar. These extremist tend to use religion as an excuse to commit public offenses. People of different religions should learn to tolerate one another in order to maintain peace in the country.

Besides that, job, gender and age discrimination often happens too in our daily lives. Many companies prefer to hire men rather than women. Employers consider, the fact that women can take maternity leave as a liability as it affects the productivity of the company. Next, companies tend to hire younger people despite their lack of experience because to provide health care for older people is also considered to be a liability.

In conclusion, there are many forms of discrimination. Discrimination lives in everyones heart in various forms. Some do not realise it because they do that too often. However, it is an ugly act that we should all be avoiding. We should tell the people around us not to discriminate others because what comes around goes around, and they will be discriminated too by other people. Everyone should stop discriminating others so that we can change the world for the better where there is no discrimination.