An eye for an eye?

Today, we had our 1st Colum9's house meeting in the only common area in the house - the kitchen. The meeting was held as a result of the complaint that we received from the residence office. They claimed that the kitchen is 'disgusting' (Haha...I have learnt a new term to describe the kitchen). I must admit that the kitchen was a bit messed up, but I think 'disgusting' is a bit too exagerating.

After the meeting, we cleaned the kitchen and it looked much cleaner and tidier now.

So, wat's this story going to do with the title of this blog?

OK, let's rewind a bit to the time when we had the meeting. After knowing the comment of the residence office about our kitchen, few of my housemates actually got very angry as they thought it was utterly rediculous to demand us to clean our kitchen because the residence office still hasn't repaired the faulty exhaust fan in the kitchen and we haven't got a bigger fridge which can accommodate our food. Therefore, they said we shouldn't do anything b4 the office does their job.

Hm... An eye for an eye?

I think they din really mean it... They just said it coz they were irritated by the complaints.

However, i think it is not necessary to have the 'revenge' feeling in our minds. When we rcv bad treatments from ppl, must we seek for a revenge?

Here's an example:

When A killed B, B's son killed A, then A's son killed B's son... So, in the end, everybody died. What's the point of seeking for a revenge? They just prolonged the vicious cycle.

Let's go back to the current situation:

If we refuse to clean the kitchen, the residence office will fine us and take no action on the faulty exhaust fan. Then we will feel that we have been treated unfairly n lodge a complaint hoping that the residence office will be given a warning by the university... So in the end, the exhaust fan remains in a bad state and both parties are now 'enemies' to each other.

"Causing troubles to other ppl will only cause us more troubles."

(WK's signing off...)