I’m thinking of driving from KL to Singapore on Christmas Eve, do you think I should?
Honestly, what was the first thought that popped into your head when you read the question I just posed to you? What would usually be an already long and tedious 5-hour drive on a normal day, but instead on the eve of one of the biggest public holidays. Because this was a real-life situation.
And the funny thing is that when I told others that I planned to make that drive, eight different people strongly advised me against it. They said it would be jammed, that I would be stuck in traffic for hours. Yet, when I asked them if they knew this from experience, all of them replied that they heard it from someone else.
I are rebel.
So I still made the drive. And you know what? It was clear. All the way.
That’s when I realized that a lot of the time, people are afraid to do stuff. Not because they failed before. But because someone told them they would fail. The weird thing is that the “someone” hasn’t even tried before. And has just heard from someone else that they would fail.
Oh, that reminds me of something. I heard a story once about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.
There was an important job that needed to be done an Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.
Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody’s job.
Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it.
It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.
Don’t let other people tell you what to (and not to) do, especially when they’ve never even tried it themselves. Merry Christmas!
