Some anonymous Bahranian protester got a video of the army open firing at them while hiding behind a date palm tree, someone got shot and some injured. This is what world news will tell you, after they get their hands on the potentially violent video, they will show it also, so that we all can mourn the dead, bad mouth the government, the leaders, and possibly some of us will pray. The reason why it comes to us as a surprise, is that we fail to imagine such atrocities being committed in our time, our time of freedom, media and television, people with knowledge and wisdom.
There are those who justify such acts, those who have power, to dictate and to rule by their words only. They are capable of this and we can witness that through the Bahranian protests, not even the leaf falling down from the tree and touching the very ground after the Egyptian revolution. We do live in these times of desperation, but lucky enough to be ruled by governments that dont care for the people but their own survival, and in this process, we survive and thrive.
The people of these countries are beginning to realize that they are not being given enough freedom by their kingdom, and feel the need for uprising, as they compare their own country by the governments that rule the others. Some how they feel that enough is not enough, while their kingdoms feel otherwise. And their rulers who, have already gone through all the phases of absolute power, and the intoxication that it brings, fail to recognize that their time is over, and their people now have the thinking ability that exceeds their own, so much that they can form their own government, and become truly free. The rulers do not realize that they are also ready for the price, that freedom will bring. We are not living in the age of empires, but the age of bankers, journalists, doctors, architects and engineers. If we are the ones making this world, we should be the ones to rule it also. If we are the ones who are creating a generation, we will be the ones, to become the architects of our own destruction. Every thing ends up with some irony.
But the only ones who are truly free, are those who impart their knowledge to people with none, thus freeing their minds from fear of hunger, from the fear of anger, and the fear of evil. These are people who feel for others the way they feel for themselves, and they fear nothing not because they exist among fearless people, or because they were brought up that way, but because they have their own interpretation of their knowledge and wisdom, and were never spoon fed by society, and they are always firm in what they believe, and not even a hail storm can bring that down, because that is something that cannot be touched or seen. And wealth cannot buy it because they have their way of justifying their belief. How many such people do we have in our society who have the ability to bring us from darkness to light, or more importantly, how many are we going to have in the future?
So this is a request to those who can think, to give sometime to oneself, and to realize their ability and what it is that they can do to influence people, to change the minds for the good, while we live in our everyday life, and routine.Certainly not when we drink a cup of coffee and listen to what the news has to say. Or when we are on facebook!
There are those who justify such acts, those who have power, to dictate and to rule by their words only. They are capable of this and we can witness that through the Bahranian protests, not even the leaf falling down from the tree and touching the very ground after the Egyptian revolution. We do live in these times of desperation, but lucky enough to be ruled by governments that dont care for the people but their own survival, and in this process, we survive and thrive.
The people of these countries are beginning to realize that they are not being given enough freedom by their kingdom, and feel the need for uprising, as they compare their own country by the governments that rule the others. Some how they feel that enough is not enough, while their kingdoms feel otherwise. And their rulers who, have already gone through all the phases of absolute power, and the intoxication that it brings, fail to recognize that their time is over, and their people now have the thinking ability that exceeds their own, so much that they can form their own government, and become truly free. The rulers do not realize that they are also ready for the price, that freedom will bring. We are not living in the age of empires, but the age of bankers, journalists, doctors, architects and engineers. If we are the ones making this world, we should be the ones to rule it also. If we are the ones who are creating a generation, we will be the ones, to become the architects of our own destruction. Every thing ends up with some irony.
But the only ones who are truly free, are those who impart their knowledge to people with none, thus freeing their minds from fear of hunger, from the fear of anger, and the fear of evil. These are people who feel for others the way they feel for themselves, and they fear nothing not because they exist among fearless people, or because they were brought up that way, but because they have their own interpretation of their knowledge and wisdom, and were never spoon fed by society, and they are always firm in what they believe, and not even a hail storm can bring that down, because that is something that cannot be touched or seen. And wealth cannot buy it because they have their way of justifying their belief. How many such people do we have in our society who have the ability to bring us from darkness to light, or more importantly, how many are we going to have in the future?
So this is a request to those who can think, to give sometime to oneself, and to realize their ability and what it is that they can do to influence people, to change the minds for the good, while we live in our everyday life, and routine.Certainly not when we drink a cup of coffee and listen to what the news has to say. Or when we are on facebook!
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