You might have noticed the 'eGFR' result in your blood test report. It's important to know what that number means for your kidneys.
Malaysia Day celebration at Stadium Merdeka on Sept 16, 1963. A centenarian would have witnessed this, among others. — National Archive Malaysia
Still, when you think about it, 100 years is a long time. In that time, a centenarian would have gone through the Second World War, the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the independence of many colonised countries, the rapid development of some of those countries and the development of civil wars in others, the fall of the Berlin War, the break up of the Soviet Union, the end of apartheid in South Africa, and the rise of technology, especially the Internet.
These are just some of the things that 25-year-olds today take for granted. But if you are a centenarian, you would have witnessed the sweep of time and all the changes that have occurred in those years. The challenge is to keep up with those changes that sometimes come at blinding speed. That would only be possible with an open mind that accepts that the world will change, sometimes for the better and sometimes not.
Today’s humans are different from their ancestors 100 years ago, even if they may not have ever suffered the deprivations of those times. Such ideas and policies may not always be violent but are nevertheless insidious. For example, trying to control certain officials so that they will always work in the favour of the powerful. You would think in 2025, this would be retired into the history books but no, people still try it.
In the days when RM100 was a lot of money, that might have meant something. But I wonder what the rationale was to give every single person with a MyKad aged above 18 the same amount to buy groceries with. Did that money come from our taxes so we’re just getting a small refund? Or is it coming from somewhere else? Given that we are RM1.3 trillion in debt already, questions arise in my mind.
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