I am really against slavery. I don’t like people looking down to others, as well as the other way around. We don’t need to look up the other people too much. That is really unnecessary.
Some people do deserve some respects, but it doesn’t make they have more power on you. We are living in democracy, we do have our rights we must pay our dues. Each of us has different role in this life.

Speaking of slavery, I used to see the concept of ball-boy in tennis game as one of the “veiled” slavery. In every tennis match there are group of people whose task is to collect the ball after a point is won. They run as fast as they could to catch the loose ball, then go back to their position, in the corner of the court, stay unseen of the fancy camera. Unlike the linesmen who wear fine clothing even sometimes a complete suit, usually ball-boys wear a simple sport uniform to ease themselves in running back and fort collecting the ball. That is so uncool.
Another task of a ball-boy is to keep a towel for the player as the player want to sweep his sweat. The ball-boy will again run towards the player as the player give a sign that they want to sweep his sweat over his face. And the player doesn’t even look at the ball-boy’s face when he returns the towel. I think this just disgraces the spirit of sportsmanship in tennis. What a menial job, right?

Until I see the great Roger Federer in one of his final in his hometown, Basel (sorry I forget the event, it was a recorded match) against a good friend of him (sorry I also forget name, I am really bad with names :-D ). At the end of the match he was being interviewed by Georgina Chang from Star Sport (I remember her name, this girl has one of the best job in the world, lucky b*#ch). Federer mentioned remembering his time with this good friend while they were still a ball boy, hoping someday will be able to play at the same level the game they were taking care of. He said it was one of the greatest moment of his life being a ball-boy, and now another great moment of his life: winning a match against a great ball-boy mate. Ball-boys are playing their role to make everybody happy. He said he wanted to share the moment with all the ball-boys.
“Definitely pizza for ball-boys after this” as he said.

A small act of him making good impact. And he truly changed my point of view of a ball-boy. Although the ball-boy seems to be unnoticed in the game, they still play a very important role. It is just about how we see them and it’s our choice as player about how to treat them.

Always treat people with dignity.
That is the quality you must have.