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Making a bit more time for the people around us
Encounters with a neighbourhood Encik prompts reflections on time and how we spend time to help others.
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Unlike money, we cannot put time in a bank to earn interest in the form of extra hours or days.
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Paul Tan
I never learnt the name of Encik.
He was always in a wheelchair, parked under the sheltered walkway which I had to pass on the way to the supermarket and hawker centre. Especially during the periods when I primarily worked from home, he was a regular fixture. Dressed in a faded, collared shirt, he would spend the hours staring into the garden landscape. Clearly he had a lot of time to kill.
