This is something I know a lot of people can relate to: being looked down. Be it academically, family background or even a not so decent past, people in society will still find chance to criticize. It's like when you do badly in your studies, or come from a second rated school(although MOE says every school is the same, I think a lot of people are still used to discriminating them) people will compare you to being more inferior and saying that you cannot do good or whatever. Especially those in ITE. I don't get it why people have this thought thinking that ITE stands for 'It's The End'. Being in ITE means cannot do good in life? Sometimes instead of looking at he surface of the issue, have you ever think deeper? Sometimes it not that they don't want to do good its the environment around them which don't allow it to happen. But if they try harder, they can still succeed in life like Mediacorp actor, Romeo Tan. He was once in ITE but look at him now, a successful actor in showbiz. I was inspired by this one phrase he always say: " It doesn't matter how slow you go, as long as you do not stop". Nice phrase to encourage to others. So those in ITE, it is NOT the end as long as you don't give up on yourself. It is how you look at yourself that really matters.
For some people, it is not the academics that they get criticized. It's about their past. Just like the recent channel 8 drama 'Gonna Make It' about a girl who's just released from prison and she have this dream of being a hairstylist. Of course because of the record, she had trouble looking for a job and being looked down wherever she go. Even if someone puts their heart and soul trying to change, with that record, will people believe them? That's society for you. If people don't give them a chance to change over, how do they expect them to change? And then, criticism comes in...as usual. That's why I say, sometimes its not that so and so don't want to change for the better, its the circumstances they are in don't allow them to.
So stop judging and looking down on others because with enough work and effort, one day they will be able to defeat you.
