Feeling obligated to do something and half doing it is far worse than doing nothing.
Par Benjamin Drieu le mercredi 5 janvier 2005, 10:00 - Blog - Lien permanent
I was working today for a customer that works in an French administration when something strange happened. We were fixing bugs when someone who was probably the head of the administration entered and asked everybody to come with him in the hall to observe a minute of silence in memory of the victims of the tsunami. He said that it wasn't his idea but national directives from president Chirac, as if he was excusing from a weird idea that wasn't his.
Arriving at the hall that was already crowded by silent people, we realized that nobody had explained why we would remain silent, that nobody told when the minute began (and, in fact, the national minute of silence was already finished at this time!), and nobody told when the minute finished. So at a random time, people from the direction left silently the hall, followed by everyone.
I couldn't imagine more disrespect to victims from people that impose a commemoration to everyone without respecting it.
