| Thursday, November 24, 2005 |
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This post from Lisye touched me. Especially this part -
"But suddenly i feel special being a quiet person. If God intended me that way, i must be something good. Not something inferior to a bubblier person. We're like gemstones that are beautiful in our own way, created for different purposes, with different talents. Who would say diamonds are more beautiful than opals. Or opals more beautiful than diamonds. I think God thinks they're all beautiful no matter what. "
Being quiet has always been part of my nature too. I used to get really frustrated when people pointed that out. There always seemed to be this implication that it was bad to be quiet. But it didn't make sense to me - surely God didn't make all of us talkative and bubbly (like Sheena and Hannah)!
Anyway, I've blogged about this before, so I shan't go into all that again. When I do I get annoyed all over again.
Something amusing happened recently though. At Ceceilya's birthday BBQ, I was in my quiet mode. Luke kept asking me, "How are you? You're so quiet today," and so on. At one point we were sitting and eating (it was late by then), and he said, "You're phenomenally quiet tonight."
"I'm not a very noisy person," I told him.
"Yes you are," he insisted.
I could only smile at that. How could I tell him in a few sentences about the years of being boxed up and labelled "QUIET"? And the frustration I held within? It was emancipation - see, I've broken free of the label.
But at the end of the day, to be true to myself: I know that I'm quiet. It'll always be a part of me that I cannot deny. Heck, even people like Sheena are quiet sometimes...there was this period when she was strangely quiet, and I got so worried that something was wrong. But she assured me that there was nothing wrong, she was just being quiet. I still find it weird when she is though, haha. |
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I think your friend's post is very nicely written :)
I guess we as human beings will eventually prefer one over the other - i mean, some may prefer noisy people to quiet ones and vice versa! And at different times, different ages, we change our preferences.
But for sure, God will nvr pick one over the other. Like you and your friend said, and i agree, He made us the way we are, and we're all precious to Him either way :)
kah ming
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I think your friend's post is very nicely written :)
I guess we as human beings will eventually prefer one over the other - i mean, some may prefer noisy people to quiet ones and vice versa! And at different times, different ages, we change our preferences.
But for sure, God will nvr pick one over the other. Like you and your friend said, and i agree, He made us the way we are, and we're all precious to Him either way :)
kah ming