“It is said that before entering the sea
A river trembles with fear.
She looks back at the path she has traveled,
from the peaks of the mountains, the long winding road crossing forests and villages.
And in front of her, she sees an ocean so vast, that to enter there seems nothing more than to disappear forever.
But there is no other way.
The river can not go back.
Nobody can go back.
To go back is impossible in existence.
The river needs to take the risk of entering the ocean because only then will fear disappear because that's where the river will know it's not about disappearing into the ocean, but of becoming the ocean.”
~ Khalil Gibran
There is a message for the Long March wallas!
I recently discovered his poetry, truly inspirational stuff and thoroughly thought-provoking.
But, with regards to the message,
It can be argued, what would an ocean be without the endless streams of rivers that flow into it, all oceans would be dead and lifeless, with the constant shinning of the sun, and no fresh water to balance the salinity.
With the increase in the salt levels, all life in the oceans will be dead, all oceans would lose their beauty.
The rivers and the oceans complement and complete each other, without fresh blood, fresh thinking, the purity of fresh water and fresh approach, the oceans and the planet would die.
As much as I dislike disorder and disharmony, because it holds the vast unknown, but without the awakening, we all die, we wither away, or remain stuck in our melees.
All great nations have had their awakenings, from which they blossomed like the phoenix, Europe had it's reformation, Japan awoke at the barrel of a gun boat, China awoke after the cultural revolution and America after the civil war.
What we fail to appreciate is that this movement in Pakistan has been entirely peaceful, citizens have not gone out like an unruly mob, that's important, on the night they came out for Imran, it was mostly for Pakistan because they felt insulted, not a bottle was broken despite the millions across dozens of towns, cities and many more villages. It's unheard of for such large gatherings to be peaceful.
After-all Pakistan is the land where the unicorn was conceived, it is the birthplace of the unicorn, let this beauty flow, worry, yes, but have faith.
@SIPRA
