Letter - extract

Letter To A Friend:

Intro – I once work in a close organization ( close here means we work until we retire, fire, or move to other employment). So, making friend here is actually making a life long friendship if the friendship suits you both. The friend knows U well and so does U. So, in such an environment its better to have many and if possible all as friends and no enemies, since U will be stuck in the place for a very long time.

And will have to deal with each other, friends or foes – year in year out !!!

Since knowing each other for x number of years, and as friend too, we tend to ignore and forget some facts and factors, which are normally well remembered at other short meeting places. We tend to forget the background and upbringing of the friend : things like race, culture, religion, economic standings, etc etc. We tend to take the friend as one of U or one of Us: nothing barred. Freedom of speech and freedom of other form of expression is practice at normal to peak level. Free to interact.

I remembered one such friend ( of diff. race, culture and religion ). But, I don’t really know his religion. His name doesn’t tell much [Chinese name with Christian prefix]. But he do talk about ‘old soul day’ [when he complain about having to entertain his parent to such day] or something relating to seeing and communicating to ‘datuk’ as requested by one of his parent. And talking about ‘datuk’ reminds me of an answered question:

Letter:

……………………… and do you still remember my question to you about why the ‘datuks’ has Malay names and not the names similar to those of his followers / the people who frequented them ?

(the point here is to give an example that we can have freedom of comm…….Nothing barred. Is that what Unity in Diversity is all about?)