In the previous entry about politics, I’ve mentioned about how politics can pay handsomely, depends on which side we’re on.

If we’re talking about relationships, seeing this small & cute flower pot makes me sad every time I steps in into my office; no matter how hard I’m trying to save the dying flower, the vase will remain faithfully the same.

flower pot
I’ve learned a forgetting-lesson that I should have been remembered years ago when I was constantly asked by my mother to water her orchids; it is not just about watering but it is also about pampering. Get to know the plant than the flower itself, get to know the vase better than the things inside it.

In politics, when we’re just concentrating about politics and not doing our real-work, we’ll be dismissed as someone who only knows to show the front tooth but annoyingly can’t do any biting at all. And most of the time, when we thought that we know the knowledge by repetitive self-taught, we might be forgetting that such knowledge are already well-known to others. As much as we do our politicking by squirting out knowledge, we are less-often self-teach ourselves about new knowledge from others.

Too much watering is absolutely bad for flowers, but it does not necessarily means the only way to save the dying flower is by pouring waters, especially when I should have known that the small pot contains water-containable thingy. Too damped for the whole week, and the plant died. I was sad not because the flower died, but I was sad because that I didn’t realized much about taking care & knowing more about the vase. Relationship is actually that vase, and the flower is just an outcome from it.

And when we put ourselves less politicking in a relationship, and perhaps in other work that we do, surely we will be paid handsomely in one side that we least expect it at best.

On the other note, took this picture today, just outside the office. I squinted my eyes few times before knowing that this car is not a real police car from Gunma Prefecture Police Force, from Japan. Turbo-charged Selangor-plated 19inch wheel of classic Volvo, I envy much of it.

Gunma Police