Our Morals Bend like Yio Chu Kang Road

This is quite a funny title but one day I was thinking about morals and suddenly I came up with this analogy.

For those who do not know, Yio Chu Kang Road is the long stretch of road that stretches somewhere from Serangoon North area to Seletar area near Jalan Kayu. (Streetdirectory.com is still in a legal battle so they cannot release any of the maps)

If you are driving along that road, you will feel that it is a straight long stretch of road. Yes, straight is the key word. There is a very slight and gentle bend (so gentle that some people do not realize) along the Seletar area but the bend is stretched out over such a long distance that it is almost negligible.

Yes, our morals bend like this Yio Chu Kang Road. This road is like our morals over our lifetime. We start from Serangoon. We were young, innocent and pure. We were educated the right moral values and belief systems. We are so called ‘straight’ and upright and yet to deviate from being ‘straight’.

As we grow and mature, as we see more of this world and interact with people and environment (like we are closing onto the Seletar area). We cannot be innocent and pure anymore, like a glass of clear water ‘contaminated’ with a drop of black ink.

But, sometimes, or most of the time, we do not realize our morals change. We are not as ‘straight’ as before. We have hit the gentle bend without knowing it; we still feel we are ‘straight’. We say we do good things, we believe in what is right and fair and all those stuff. But at the same time, we do question them, we doubt them, some even do what is wrong and unfair. In a nutshell, we have, in the strictest moral sense, deviated.

So, we still believe the road is straight, our morals are intact (straight), yet it did not occur to us that we have actually changed.

Hmm… I think this one sounds very profound. I hope readers understand what I am talking about.

If you do not understand, never mind. Sometimes I cannot understand myself at all. Haha…

-dakepaike-