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The other evening I attended one of the Rukun-Tetangga (an association for fostering the unity of a housing community) meetings and was shocked to see the place already broken into, some of the cushions and cloth thrown outside, window-panes cracked and broken, some food not belonging to the community center lying around and in another part of the building, feces left on plates.

On a table was the sign of candle wax. Initially, we thought the intruders had used candles as it must be dark at night. But then, there was electricity and the lamps did work. So, we suspected the intrusion to be the work of drug addicts.

However, the community centre was not under our care. We merely borrowed the premises for our meetings. We informed the person in charge of the place. He came and investigated, noting the damage done to the place. I suggested that we ought to bring it to the attention of the police but there was apparently no interest in doing so. The person just destroyed the food of those intruders and repaired the lock.

Well, since the care-taker was in charge, I did nopt pursue the matter. But I thought it a bad idea to just lock those undesirable elements out and destroy their food. Certainly, those people would be back in the night and what would anyone think those people would do. Well, they had broken the lock once. What is there to prevent a second break-in? The locks were obviously of no match to those people. Furthermore, there were lots of windows for them to break and climb into the place.

And when they discover their food thrown away, they would be on a rampage to vent their anger.Who would be there to stop them if the police was not to be notified. There is certain to be further destruction.

But then, experience has taught me that some people do not wish to listen to others. Well, they have a mind of their own which in certain circumstances would be excellent. And if we hit against a wall more than once the damage to self might be too great. We only get to hurt ourselves, nothing more can be achieved. We just have to let others do things their way unless it really does affect our lives. Sometimes, we just have to shut our busybody mind and close our mouth.