At a smoking zone in college on a boring day, restaurants or bars, wherever we can sit and gather around to talk, the most succulent topic of our conversation these days is the state of the nation, our nation that is. How we are being screwed by the politicians that we single handily voted, the ineffective administration, the rising cost of living and all the usual things that Malaysian love to talk so much about. As usual, all we do is practically just talk then we go back to our mundane lives and try to deal with the problems. Until the next time when things become too much to tolerate, we gather around, whining and complaining again, but that's just pretty much it, no actions.
People can make change, we hold the power of our lives in our own hands. Remember back before Merdeka? Our ancestors, practiced the People Power in the march towards gaining independence from the British, we were all passionate about Merdeka. We got together as one, we appointed a spokesman in the person of the Tunku, and we won our independence without bloodshed. Then we sat back and enjoyed the fruits of our first People Power success. But life became so good after that we began to relax. A little too much.
Through years, we lost our sense of People Power altogether. We became dependent again. We were colonised again, this time by the people we ourselves chose to govern us and to continue the work we started using People Power. Life became so good that all we wanted to do is sit back, relax and enjoy. Our people power came to such a state that eventually, things got bad again. We began to suffer a little bit of this and that and that's the reason there was a huge turnover in the last election. People want change, but that's so much as they can do. Change their vote in hope that things will get better, and that the people we voted will take care of things, things that we should have done ourselves.
Apparently, sadly we realised that we had been enjoying too much and too long that we had lost the ability to think and to do things for ourselves. Then we'll go back to the place where we normally gather around and complain again. Hoping that the people we voted will actually do something about the problems we are facing and then we happily return to our anesthetised state.
Let's make a change with actions. No matter how young we are, we have a voice here in our nation because we are the future.
People can make change, we hold the power of our lives in our own hands. Remember back before Merdeka? Our ancestors, practiced the People Power in the march towards gaining independence from the British, we were all passionate about Merdeka. We got together as one, we appointed a spokesman in the person of the Tunku, and we won our independence without bloodshed. Then we sat back and enjoyed the fruits of our first People Power success. But life became so good after that we began to relax. A little too much.
Through years, we lost our sense of People Power altogether. We became dependent again. We were colonised again, this time by the people we ourselves chose to govern us and to continue the work we started using People Power. Life became so good that all we wanted to do is sit back, relax and enjoy. Our people power came to such a state that eventually, things got bad again. We began to suffer a little bit of this and that and that's the reason there was a huge turnover in the last election. People want change, but that's so much as they can do. Change their vote in hope that things will get better, and that the people we voted will take care of things, things that we should have done ourselves.
Apparently, sadly we realised that we had been enjoying too much and too long that we had lost the ability to think and to do things for ourselves. Then we'll go back to the place where we normally gather around and complain again. Hoping that the people we voted will actually do something about the problems we are facing and then we happily return to our anesthetised state.
Let's make a change with actions. No matter how young we are, we have a voice here in our nation because we are the future.
