Many names have I been labelled
Many more names will I be labelled

Some appalling

Some quite flattering

While others are just downright lacking in creativity.

Come now you guys,


you seek to delude yourselves into trying to second-guess me and utterly failing in that..
at least have the decency in you to give me a proper nickname, one that is befitting of me


Oh well, you know what they say, you want something done to your expectations, its best if you do it yourself. Because simply said, only you know what your own expectations are.

So as with that, I prefer myself to be more of a ... Maverick.


Someone who takes an independent stand apart from his peers

or to put it in a crude hindsight,


a nonconformist who refuses to abide by the dictates. Though technically still under the command of the organisation and thus bound by the organisation's rules and constitution, a maverick is one who works in the grey area.

He works by bending the Do's but never breaking into the Don'ts. He improvises by using whatever tools that he is limited to. His stance often led him into conflict with the forthright views of others.

It is this stance however, that makes him flexible. Because he is not honor bound to follow the rules to the word.

Had the others been less ignorant, they would understand one important thing;

In this stance, he would be the most valuable ally in the organisation's personnel


or


the most dangerous one ever to set foot in it.



In hindsight, thats what I am..a maverick


I am never one to work within the law or the rules. I'm not saying that I see myself as above them, no, never that. I prefer to work in between them. It gets more work done that way

And before you assume that I have no respect whatsoever about rules or protocols or the like, please don't take me to be an anarchist or whatsoever. I may used to be one, but now no. I do respect the rules. I do respect protocols. But I am not one who will blindly follow them when the situation warrants otherwise

Oh and for the record, those of you who have this question in your mind, "If he's so against doing that, then why is he still bound to the Quran, the Sunnah and the Shariah? Issn't that hypocritical of him?"

Well simply said, The Quran is the Word of God and the Sunnah is based on the Prophet, the best example we have of a near-perfect person. And now, those rules and protocols and the like, they are written by humans, fallible and flawed.

Also, the Quran and the Sunnah is syumul, or in other words, complete. It is flexible across the times and will be until the end of it. Put that in contrast to the rules and protocols that you hold dearly. How sure are you of how complete it is? And from what I know, it does not change with time (unless someone changes it), neither is it flexible of its own accord. Perhaps for the first 5 years or so and after that, contradictions will be found. Simply because people change, environments change..situations change.

So if you still hold blindly to it, then realise that you are no better than a robot who is preprogrammed to follow certain orders. In which it will blindly follow its programming no matter how old it is.




That leads to one more thing that I don't look too kindly and that is rigidity. Some people have this dogmatic approach in which the word of the rules or the constitution is the final word for them. Some even go on further and recreate the whole damn thing. Now thats what I call megalomania


In perspective of rigidity, I'd just say this. You live by the sword, you'll die by the sword.

You live by your dogmatic rigidity, then prepare to fall because of it


You can say the same for me of course, that one day, my skirting the rules will be my downfall

and you know what? I totally agree

But you see, I fall because I did all I could to avert the situation.
Whilst you fall because of you impotency to act, bound by all those needless binds you have imposed upon yourself.