Favouritism

Favouritism in School

This is just a thought that recently a friend discussed with me about. So I thought I'll just put these thoughts on the blog.

Favouritism is everywhere. In politics, in society, at home, in schools and if one wants to add in selection of food, it is there too, though it is of a different form.

I'd like to mention here on favouritism in school as this is a schoolmate blog. Some of us may not feel that it was there before, maybe because they were the favourite students of some of the teachers themselves. Of course this prejudice works the other way too. Certain teachers are some students' favourite, possible reasons being that they were 'good' teachers, or they paid more attention to those students (for whatever reasons you can put forward for their special attention), or they were great motivators to them, or they were simply more good-looking, prettier, sexier (??).

It was there, right? The favourite didn't know it, obviously. It was those who felt 'left out' who can swear that those teachers didn't even know that they were in their classes.

So is this fair? No, the world is never fair. In Capitalism it is not fair. The rich are super-rich, the poor are dying poor, and how many hardworking people can really make it. In Communism, it is also not fair. The hardworking gets the same as or even less than the lazy. So, we have to accept unfairness as a way of life.

So why is the world the way it is?

Our likes and dislikes. Anything that we like, we want more, resulting in greed, and anything we don't like, we want to get rid of, the faster the better, causing much aversion. If we are not careful, we become responsible for as much of the inequalities in society as the politicians.

So ......... the point being touch on here is we all see things from our own perspective. It is mostly useful to see things from another person's perspective.

Anyway this is still merely my perspective and perception. I don't want to be an 'I' specialist. And by the way my memory of the past could now well be a 'photoshop' version. We remember the good, justify the wrong and continue to forget. Photoshop copy of photographs often looks better than the original, doesn't it?