OPINION | How did “serving others” become punishment? - The Independent Singapore News

One of the more amusing things about writing on a public forum is the fact you will attract attention. Sometimes you get “good” attention. It’s a good ego boost whenever you have people clap for you. However, it’s inevitably more interesting whenever you p*** people off, and they write all sorts of things about you. It’s ultimately the people who you p*** off that give you the most food for thought.

Now, I am going to leave the debate on the morality of abortion to more intelligent and wiser people. I will accept that perhaps I am a murderer. However, what I will question is why having to work as a waiter was a punishment. What’s particularly interesting is that the punishment comes fromI can accept from a purely personal perspective that my punishment for my role in ending the pregnancy was the fact that the two years of marriage were awful.

Working as a waiter did lead to other things. My last big job in media relations came through working at the restaurant where I met members of the Indian Institutes of Management Alumni association and I got hired. Then, when I started working in the insolvency business, I ended up meeting lawyers, whom I linked to my day job boss to. Again, that was a funny way to punish me by giving me good things.

If you look at just about every book on “success” you’ll find that having a mentality that you need to “serve other people” is one of the key elements. Say what you like about “Big Tech” but it’s been built on “serving.” Google, for example, made life that much easier by serving us in our efforts to get information on the net. Every business is about “serving” other people in order to make a profit.

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