You know, truth is, I am not hurt or angry. I am just disappointed... disappointed that our country has so much potential and we can do so much more, set things right and start to give birth to new opportunities. And yet, in this time of the urgent need for change, our government is more bent on protecting their old ways, knowing that the old is no longer working, yet hanging on to their last thread. Perhaps when one is in power for too long, one fears change, but in fear itself, this will also pull our country down with it. As much as the PAP once had the gusto to splice things and turn things around, the current PAP, too stuck in the old ways, have become too mired in the gridlock of their networks and cannot move beyond what Singapore so desperately needs. It is perhaps disappointing as well that amongst our people, the truth beknownst to us, yet in the very same fear that has ensnared the PAP, we crawl back into our shells, thus colluding with the PAP to shape, or unshape Singapores destiny. For whence we fall, if we fall, it was not the PAP that Singapore fell under, but each and everyone of our sullied hands who stood by and watched our country unravel, but too scared for each and everyone of ourselves, our homes, our jobs and our branded goods, not realising that these very artefacts themselves will only rely on the very existence of our country and its ability to upkeep our lives. But when we become fearful observers, feeble in our wants for a better future, what of Singapore who stood strong in its will and might, but could no longer hold the fort when the government too beholden but blinded, and a people too proud and for what? Our country we make but if we wash our hands off it, quietly, submissively, hoping that things will change, is like hoping that a car will start by itself if we sit on the fence willing our minds to start it. For we can only get somewhere if we start the engine. But if we choose to hold on to the key but stay uncertain, the car will only collect dust. And by the time we know it, the engine would have failed, the car too old and rusty to move. Another supercar would have gone pass on the highway and there we are, still sitting on the fence, the key no longer useful. And what next? Where can we go, but without our car? Where can Singaporeans go when our country fails, not because it has, but because we have failed it? But when you had the chance, what did you do? Hold on to your possessions, not realising that if the land beneath you goes, so do your possessions. Have we become so short sighted that the future we forget, our lives a toy we play around with, until its time to take it seriously, by then, no where to go? Is this what we want?
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 14:35:36 +0000
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