2 days ago, I brought my wife to take AstraZeneca vaccination. Posted it here on noise.cash. Because I couldn’t go into the hall with her. I waited for her outside the centre at the roadside walkway. So one main thought was running in my head during that one hour.

If you saw my post on noise.cash, the experience before entering the hall wasn’t good because the volunteers were impatient and scolding and shouting to almost everyone who was going to enter the hall. Yes, so my wife and I were being shouted as well with their angry face.

After my wife entered the centre and while I was waiting, I was looking and observing them while they are working. In my mind I thought… “why couldn’t you all instruct nicely and patiently?”

Putting yourself in the others’ shoes…

Since I had the time, I thought further… then I came to a conclusion that I couldn’t just judge them just by that one bad experience because prior to that, the 2 times vaccination that I went for at this same centre (one when I brought my mum-in-law, another one was me myself), the experience was good.

First thing first, I had no idea how long had they been volunteering to work there. Second, just too bad, that day was scorching hot and they are directing people to enter the centre under hot sun. So yea, it made things more heaty you know. If I’m at their position, I would lose my cool too. Not to forget, the unstoppable crowds keep coming and entering the centre non stop. I overheard an aunty saying on the phone “eh, this place is more happening than the night market!”

After these strains of thoughts, my next thought was, if I’m in that position, how could I improve myself, as in… if shouting and scolding didn’t work, then I should change my method/strategy. From far while I was observing them, their shouting and scolding were’nt effective at all because when I was being shouted at, I don’t know what they actually wanted. They had to repeat shouting and scolding many times to get people to understand which I thought, that could also drain a lot of their energy physically and mentally.

With these thought, not only I cooled down and understood the situation, I also reminded myself again how important it is to always put myself in the others’ shoes. If everyone can think from other people’s perspective, this can also resolve a lot of misunderstanding and problems can be solved in shorter time, peacefully.

Now try to think of the situation that you’ve been through… if you put yourself in other’s shoes and likewise, the other person does the same, do you think the situation will be much better?