Morning Musings By Rafidah Aziz

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This is from Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz today

GOOD MORNING 🌹🌹🌹
Today is another opportunity to do what we find Joy and Satisfaction from...and to continue to write a New Page in the Story of our Life...
May that Quiet Satisfaction leave another imprint in our Memory...

In Today's World , the utter CACOPHONY, of Crossflows of Communication, Blasts of endless PUBLICITY, and Information, often makes it almost impossible to...
....DIFFERENTIATE between FACTS and FAKES
.....TRUTH and LIES
......FIND the GIST, from amongst the FROTH of the "Presentation" of the Story

It is true in the POLITICAL arena, as also in the area of other activities, where some feel they NEED the HYPE and SOCIAL MEDIA BLITZ, to promote whatever they are doing.

Certainly, there is nothing wrong with all that.

BUT, up to a point , when it is "OVERDONE",  then it can be counterproductive...
......especially when the REALITY is NOT what has been Touted...
.....AND the RESULTS and OUTCOMES are far BELOW EXPECTATIONS...because the HYPE was much more than real ACTION...
Then DISAPPOINTMENT ensues...

As the Malay Saying goes..."INDAH KHABAR DARI RUPA..."

Literally meaning..." The STORY/ message/ is nicer , more beautiful, than the Reality...

OR...." TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE "...

Perhaps it has to do, again, with that Human EGO, the need to PROJECT Oneself, endlessly,

....even though, there are SO MANY OTHERS , WHO HAVE SUCCEEDED.... but WITHOUT the FANFARE, the HYPE and the PUBLICITY BLITZ...
THEY have Succeeded, and are continuously being Successful, merely with that proper Planning, Patience, Dedication, and Tireless Effort, to realise the desired Good Results , and Outcomes...
AND their SUCCESSES do LAST, for the Longer Term...and the BENEFITS continue to accrue , to those Generations, coming long after them...

As the saying goes..
" ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS..."
While...
" EMPTY VESSELS MAKE THE MOST NOISE..."

And to quote Confucius again...
" A SUPERIOR MAN IS MODEST IN HIS SPEECH..
BUT EXCEEDS IN HIS ACTIONS..."


 
The views expressed are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of MMKtT.
By Syed Akbar Ali 

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