Ever felt like life seems to be stagnant? Perhaps on the wider scale, our country's social, economical and political development seems to be stagnant. We hauled the opposition in for a big victory, hoping for change, hoping for a better life for the children of this country, but yet nothing has seemed to change?
Patience is a virtue, but why do i feel like I'm running out of patience? I know, the change is for a better, no matter what people say, but yet I wish things would move on. A song seems to come to my mind, and every time i hear it, the lyrics somehow seem to describe my life currently and also the situation around me. Don't mistake me for a teenage pop fan, but somehow these lyrics seem to strike the very core of how I feel at the moment;
One Republic
Stop and Stare
Stop and stare
I think I'm moving but I go nowhere
Yeah I know that everyone gets scared
But I've become what I can't be, oh
Stop and stare
You start to wonder why you're here not there
And you'd give anything to get what's fair
But fair ain't what you really need
Oh, can you see what I see
They're tryin' to come back, all my senses push
Untie the weight bags, I never thought I could...
Steady feet, don't fail me now
Gonna run till you can't walk
But something pulls my focus out
And I'm standing down...
Stop and stare
I think I'm moving but I go nowhere
Yeah I know that everyone gets scared
But I've become what I can't be, oh
Stop and stare
You start to wonder why you're here not there
And you'd give anything to get what's fair
But fair ain't what you really need
Oh, can you see what I see
What you need, what you need...
Stop and stare
I think I'm moving but I go nowhere
And I know that everyone gets scared
But I've become what I can't be
Oh, do you see what I see...
Yes, we know we're moving forward, but yet it feels like we've never moved at all. Even in personal life, you know you're going somewhere, and you think you've made the right moves to reach that destination...but somehow it feels that everything comes so slowly, that no matter how hard we work or how much effort we put in, we're constantly in the same place, doing the same things and we feel that somehow we are insignificant, and nothing we do will change anything.
10 years ago, and today, the same allegations are thrown against Anwar, the same reasons for the allegations are there. The country faces the same problems 10 years ago and now, politically, economically and socially. Again, the racial card is used, talks between UMNO and PAS just like they did close to 40 years ago.
It seems that history does repeat itself, and as Hegel observes "We learn from history that we never learn anything from history". This seems to ring true in the history of this nation.
Patience is a virtue, but why do i feel like I'm running out of patience? I know, the change is for a better, no matter what people say, but yet I wish things would move on. A song seems to come to my mind, and every time i hear it, the lyrics somehow seem to describe my life currently and also the situation around me. Don't mistake me for a teenage pop fan, but somehow these lyrics seem to strike the very core of how I feel at the moment;
One Republic
Stop and Stare
Stop and stare
I think I'm moving but I go nowhere
Yeah I know that everyone gets scared
But I've become what I can't be, oh
Stop and stare
You start to wonder why you're here not there
And you'd give anything to get what's fair
But fair ain't what you really need
Oh, can you see what I see
They're tryin' to come back, all my senses push
Untie the weight bags, I never thought I could...
Steady feet, don't fail me now
Gonna run till you can't walk
But something pulls my focus out
And I'm standing down...
Stop and stare
I think I'm moving but I go nowhere
Yeah I know that everyone gets scared
But I've become what I can't be, oh
Stop and stare
You start to wonder why you're here not there
And you'd give anything to get what's fair
But fair ain't what you really need
Oh, can you see what I see
What you need, what you need...
Stop and stare
I think I'm moving but I go nowhere
And I know that everyone gets scared
But I've become what I can't be
Oh, do you see what I see...
Yes, we know we're moving forward, but yet it feels like we've never moved at all. Even in personal life, you know you're going somewhere, and you think you've made the right moves to reach that destination...but somehow it feels that everything comes so slowly, that no matter how hard we work or how much effort we put in, we're constantly in the same place, doing the same things and we feel that somehow we are insignificant, and nothing we do will change anything.
10 years ago, and today, the same allegations are thrown against Anwar, the same reasons for the allegations are there. The country faces the same problems 10 years ago and now, politically, economically and socially. Again, the racial card is used, talks between UMNO and PAS just like they did close to 40 years ago.
It seems that history does repeat itself, and as Hegel observes "We learn from history that we never learn anything from history". This seems to ring true in the history of this nation.
I have a simple solution. Let's stop looking at the history of M'sia. Let's try the history of other nations. May be other people's history can shed some light and help us move on.
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