Nobody's Perfect

 Posted by: ndin | 10/01 2006, 13:08

Hypocrisy with all its glory is just not that cool and cute anymore when it smacks you right in the face.  Really.

I was in a mall for a Ramadhan break fast last night. Along with common peculiarity such as the high number of junior-high schoolers dwelling there, the holy month also offers the anomaly of people queuing for wudhu and shalat. It was only 10 minutes before the Isya' and there are about 10 people in line before me, all waiting patiently except for this woman. A mother, in hijab, bringing along her little daughter, cutting the line right before my turn at the water tap. Of course, being a complete failure of my first year's PDPT program, I let her. Part of it was because of my curiosity of how she would act afterwards. Not only she violated mine and 10 other people's rights, such an example she set for the little princess. If she was such in a hurry to fulfill the Heaven's calling, why didn't she use the bathroom (she only needed to add a bit of maneuver to do the final stage of wudhu there)?

If the one cutting the line was one of the queuing ABGs, I would be more than understanding. After all, they are not an enlightened mother building the morality of the nation.

Another case could be found every day. Most of the subject would be adult male, driving a motorcycle to masjid, with no helmet but with an elaborate set of kopiah, taking the opposite lane, speeding. Another one, a teenage member of a religious organization with a habit of doing tadarus every day, but such a pain when it comes to help his mom doing house chores.

People, please. Live up to the appearance, would you? You are all ruining the art of devilish concealment. Shame on you.

Then again, we may have lost our sense of art, or any other sense for that matter, along with the monetary crisis back in the 90s. Hell.

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5 Responses to “Nobody's Perfect”

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kunderemp 10/01 2006, 21:29 Say: [Reply]

Maybe we (indonesian) are hypocrites..

Or maybe.. the religious people are interested in big picture and forget the tiny detail.. ( and they scream for "kaffah".. yeah, right)

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Ra! 10/04 2006, 12:54 Say: [Reply]

strongly agree. btw, may I link to yours?

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Nesnesnes 10/07 2006, 17:41 Say: [Reply]

Ndin I've decided to move to http://nesnesnes.wordpress.com. Tlg di-update ya link-nya. Thx!

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ndin 10/08 2006, 06:02 Say: [Reply]

Ra!: sure.. link me on! =D

Nes: done. knp pindah, btw?

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Nesnesnes 10/08 2006, 12:35 Say: [Reply]

Blogdrive sering down gt servernya, jd bikin males. Wordpress is really fun to play with :)

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