Bless others; but do not take pleasure over others' misfortunes...

The recent announcement of GCE O-Level results saw a good number of students attaining 10 A1s and one of them even had 11 A1s. It was a tremendous success by any account. They should have a good celebration. We should offer them our heartiest congratulations.

But, not everyone around them or those who read about their success would feel and do the same. Some would feel that they are just being lucky and some may think that it was nothing great. We just have to give it to this group of people who are always sour about others' success. They simply get jealous over others' success or achievements. I have come across such people in my personal life.

Worse, this same group of people when seeing others fail in their endeavours or missions would usually take pleasure or gloat over their misfortunes. People with such unhealthy behaviours usually may not even realise their own weaknesses.

Self-awareness and self-awakening is important for such people to get up from their arm-chair and engage in self-examination and soul-searching, which hopefully would help them develop a more balanced perspective when looking at things and dealing with people around them.