6/27/2008

50* LADY


Minggu yang lalu, saya diminta mengirim sebuah paket kecil keluar kota atas permintaan si Boss. Tunggu punya tunggu, si kurir dari perusahaan yang saya telefon tersebut tidak muncul-muncul.
Setelah di-komplain melalui telefon, dengan tidak simpatik si karyawan meminta saya untuk datang ke kantornya yang terletak hanya beberapa puluh meter dari tempat saya bekerja.

Tanpa senyum sedikitpun (karena kecewa)saya menyapa mereka disana dengan sapaan "formal" dan meminta pengantaran dilakukan segera, tetapi si receptionist mengatakan pengantaran selanjutnya dilakukan setelah 2 jam sedangkan si Boss mengiginkan segera. Saya memohon kepadanya bahwa barang itu sangat penting dan meminta agar dikirimkan melalui kenderaan penumpang.

Seseorang yang mungkin adalah si Boss dari perusahaan tersebut tiba-tiba berbicara kepada saya. "Lady... jika anda ingin barang ini dikirim segera, anda bisa meminta langsung kepada si sopirnya di dekat station sana", katanya sopan. Ah... pasti si Bapak ini pernah lama tinggal atau bersekolah di LN pikir saya.

Saya kagum sekali dengan manners-nya tersebut dan itu adalah sepertinya yang ketiga yang pernah saya dapatkan selama tinggal disini. Karena, biasanya sayalah yang sering menggunakan sebutan atau kata ganti orang tersebut untuk clients kami.

Berikut, apa dan siapa "LADY" itu sebenarnya?


A LADY DEFINED

The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy, and Serenity. - Emily Post Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady. - Thomas H. Huxley

Lady n. ... (corresponding to gentleman, a woman of good family and good manners and some claim to social position; a woman with good manners and refinement in any class of society; a woman of any kind, whether of high or low social position or with or without good manners and refinement. (From the above it will be seen that the word has now become vague in meaning and is better avoided.) ... - The Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English, 1957

BEING A LADY !

"And now when everything is made as simple and striking as possible, there probably is no time to develop such a complicated characteristic as "being ladylike" (in its former soulful meaning). ... the former concept "lady" meant also beauty. Not the beauty of features or clothes, but a graceful behavior coming from self-control. A lady is not loud-voiced, her laughter is not shrill, she moves freely and peacefully. Everything in her is beautiful even when she is homely. ...


In the era of competition the ideal of woman has become somewhat hard and "efficient". Perhaps this will be once overcome when a real lady steps forwad, in her refined and composed brilliancy." - Kersti Bergroth, Finnish writer, theosophist

In our modern classless society the word lady is often used just as a synonym to a woman, without any of its previous connotations. Still, Lady Quote would like to see the word lady to retain some of its best connotations, not referring to an upper class in society, but to high-class women in a mental or spiritual sense, to ladies who have manners and kindness of heart, who behave in ladylike fashion, with style and dignity.


*Apakah kita juga layak disebut "lady...?". Hehehe....

http://www.geocities.com/ladyquote

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