The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Adulation and Vitriol

I read Chua Lee Hoong's Sunday Times' front page piece on the death of Mdm Kwa Geok Choo, "In death, she leaves behind a void not only her husband, but also the entire nation, will feel." [Link].

A little over the top, I thought. She makes it sounds like a 9.8 Richter scale earthquake has hit Sinkapoor.

The hundreds of comments written here [Link] confirms my thought.

The extreme ways that bloggers and msm and MIW's [Link] & [Link] go about the death of Mdm Kwa simply show that one man's meat is another man's poison. Be it genuine admiration, servile flattery, hypocritical praise or abusive vitriol, each must have his/her personal reason (graciousness, love, support, fear, expectation, hatred, angst, vengeance, frustration, bitterness, etc.) to do so.

I thank the reader who commented on my previous blog, [Link]

“The rich, the poor,

The powerful, the meek

The rulers, the ruled

The conquerors, the vanquished

Everyone must fall.

And who makes the final decisions about when their time is up? Not men himself.

But some forget that the richest man, the most powerful man, the greatest conqueror, their destiny is still decided by the unknown power called death”

To every life a little rain must fall.

Ultimately, we die.

RIP.

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