Eventhough it's a little late, but I have to take this chance to say Happy Birthday Malaysia!!!
Look where we are now. People say never look into the past, but for me the past is where we learn. We strive as who we are everyday so that the people after us will remember our deeds and our battles. We make mistakes and record them in history so that our future generation will not repeat the same mistakes.
Forgetting the past is forgetting who we are. The battles fought by our nation's many heroes define who we are as a nation, our wishes and how we see the world. Malaysians are peaceful people, yet we are not afraid of fighting for our rights when trouble shows its ugly face. We have won many battles, and proved our strength and unity as one nation, headed towards a goal that before seemed way out of reach.
But that was the past, and things are not what they used to be. Change is the law of life, yet it remains a delicate subject. Change through my eyes may be different through another man's eyes. Every decision in life we make has its pros and cons, and it's how we look at each and every one of them defines how we live life everyday.
Subject in hand, Malaysia isn't what it was before. Cultural toleration has turned into racism, democracy into money politics, and peace into tension. I may be too young to say too much, but I'm not blind. We are starting to break apart, fighting amongst each other for power and ringgit, forgetting why we agreed to live together in the first place.
How did we come to this, Malaysia?
But that doesn't mean that I don't love being Malaysian, as it is who I am and I don't want to be anyone else. We have been in tighter situations before, and you know what? I believe we're going to get through this together, for now and forever. Merdeka!
1Malaysia!!!!
Look where we are now. People say never look into the past, but for me the past is where we learn. We strive as who we are everyday so that the people after us will remember our deeds and our battles. We make mistakes and record them in history so that our future generation will not repeat the same mistakes.
Forgetting the past is forgetting who we are. The battles fought by our nation's many heroes define who we are as a nation, our wishes and how we see the world. Malaysians are peaceful people, yet we are not afraid of fighting for our rights when trouble shows its ugly face. We have won many battles, and proved our strength and unity as one nation, headed towards a goal that before seemed way out of reach.
But that was the past, and things are not what they used to be. Change is the law of life, yet it remains a delicate subject. Change through my eyes may be different through another man's eyes. Every decision in life we make has its pros and cons, and it's how we look at each and every one of them defines how we live life everyday.
Subject in hand, Malaysia isn't what it was before. Cultural toleration has turned into racism, democracy into money politics, and peace into tension. I may be too young to say too much, but I'm not blind. We are starting to break apart, fighting amongst each other for power and ringgit, forgetting why we agreed to live together in the first place.
How did we come to this, Malaysia?
But that doesn't mean that I don't love being Malaysian, as it is who I am and I don't want to be anyone else. We have been in tighter situations before, and you know what? I believe we're going to get through this together, for now and forever. Merdeka!
1Malaysia!!!!
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