In all honestly, looking back at the last 20 days, you can never been happier. It all looks like Egypt with its 85 million people has got into a big Washing Machine. It sure is a big mess, many wrinkles, old clothes may suffer blurring, fading or complete uselessness. However just at the end, everything at least comes clean and fresh and it is one of those fate gifts to certain people, “ LIFE DOES GIVE YOU A SECOND CHANCE”.
I have just looked to my dad and all my friends’ parents last week an d I asked, “what have kept you silent all this time? Honestly, I cannot blame the old regime for reaching a level of a satisfied conscious. It is quite simple, if people are silent, then they are happy or they just do not care..
In all cases, during the last year, you can never deny the fact that we were all extremely disappointed, frustrated and hopeless to an extent that carried many to apply for immigration, expatriate opportunities or elongated overseas trips. It was a sense of escape mixed with a guilt trip.
And finally, out of the blue skies and defying all expectations, curfews, fears rise the people and peacefully. The key word here is peacefully.
On the night of Monday 24th, my friends and I have been sitting and discussing the next day. Most of us have expected on of two scenerios. One would be only a lame march with a couple hundred people who will end up uneffective, vague. The other one was the fact that it would end up in complete disaster, hunger, fury, anger, of those living below poverty line who exceed a quarter of the population..
Without note, Tuesday 25th has came out peaceful in all means, managed by violence once, by deceipt twice, by emotion, by unbalanced conversation, by bad media management, international involvement and even by barring 85 million people from the entire world.
You get to learn many things within period of 20 days.
You learn that the power of people can never be just taken for granted. You learn that Egypt is different and it does matter to the world, if it rises the world rises.. She is born leader and I know now. You learn that mismanagement is a disaster and that you need to be up to date to the people you are among or you are only sitting on a ticking bomb. You learn to make less judgements and more actions…
And most importantly, you learn from experience that what has kept people silent was the fear of the turning of a revolution to turn bloody and create “La Guillotine” and here comes what we shall all beware to keep the closet clean.
I am happy for what we have reached. I am enlightened by the freedom and I feel we have a story that is as clean and powerful as Ghandi’s. We never would want to stain that.
We now need trust, we need work, we need knowledge, we need understanding, unity. We need each other and in doing so, we need to create a sense of forgiving and respect. For in all our code of ethics, culture, theology be it Christianity or Islam, forgiveness is a virtue that raises people to highest levels of humanity especially in times of power. Revenge is a utility of yourself and your potential to evil which is not only dangerous but a big waste and we learnt that each of us now count and we cannot jeopardize one person’s potential anymore…
I am hopeful and happy and never have been more proud. This turning point had taught me how to love your country and how to feel for its victory and defeat. I know have a sense of how the 1973 victory has been like and how terrible the 1967 defeat was like and I am thankful to Fate to make me witness such another of history page unfold.
Forgiveness , hope, hard work… Egyptians, and world…From the ashes we shall all rise!
P.S.Life i gving u a second chance...Use it.
I have just looked to my dad and all my friends’ parents last week an d I asked, “what have kept you silent all this time? Honestly, I cannot blame the old regime for reaching a level of a satisfied conscious. It is quite simple, if people are silent, then they are happy or they just do not care..
In all cases, during the last year, you can never deny the fact that we were all extremely disappointed, frustrated and hopeless to an extent that carried many to apply for immigration, expatriate opportunities or elongated overseas trips. It was a sense of escape mixed with a guilt trip.
And finally, out of the blue skies and defying all expectations, curfews, fears rise the people and peacefully. The key word here is peacefully.
On the night of Monday 24th, my friends and I have been sitting and discussing the next day. Most of us have expected on of two scenerios. One would be only a lame march with a couple hundred people who will end up uneffective, vague. The other one was the fact that it would end up in complete disaster, hunger, fury, anger, of those living below poverty line who exceed a quarter of the population..
Without note, Tuesday 25th has came out peaceful in all means, managed by violence once, by deceipt twice, by emotion, by unbalanced conversation, by bad media management, international involvement and even by barring 85 million people from the entire world.
You get to learn many things within period of 20 days.
You learn that the power of people can never be just taken for granted. You learn that Egypt is different and it does matter to the world, if it rises the world rises.. She is born leader and I know now. You learn that mismanagement is a disaster and that you need to be up to date to the people you are among or you are only sitting on a ticking bomb. You learn to make less judgements and more actions…
And most importantly, you learn from experience that what has kept people silent was the fear of the turning of a revolution to turn bloody and create “La Guillotine” and here comes what we shall all beware to keep the closet clean.
I am happy for what we have reached. I am enlightened by the freedom and I feel we have a story that is as clean and powerful as Ghandi’s. We never would want to stain that.
We now need trust, we need work, we need knowledge, we need understanding, unity. We need each other and in doing so, we need to create a sense of forgiving and respect. For in all our code of ethics, culture, theology be it Christianity or Islam, forgiveness is a virtue that raises people to highest levels of humanity especially in times of power. Revenge is a utility of yourself and your potential to evil which is not only dangerous but a big waste and we learnt that each of us now count and we cannot jeopardize one person’s potential anymore…
I am hopeful and happy and never have been more proud. This turning point had taught me how to love your country and how to feel for its victory and defeat. I know have a sense of how the 1973 victory has been like and how terrible the 1967 defeat was like and I am thankful to Fate to make me witness such another of history page unfold.
Forgiveness , hope, hard work… Egyptians, and world…From the ashes we shall all rise!
P.S.Life i gving u a second chance...Use it.
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