Have not got around to write a reflection for 2007 and my resolution for 2008, will have to do that soon. Right now I have an urge to write about...
The demonstration rally I went yesterday for Universal Suffrage for 2012.
Have particular strong feeling for this, not understanding why, perhaps it's in the blood. I am not the kind of person who heavily involve in politics, but I especially wanted to write tonight, before blogs like this can never be published, where opposing views can no longer be shared and people may get prosecuted because of critizing the government.
No doubt this will not happen dramatically, but gradually... without you even notice. One day you suddenly realise though, you have lost your real freedom of speech. By then, it's too late. Because you did not fight for your rights and freedom back then and had thought it's a waste of time or you thought you have better things to do.
When I first got to Victoria Park, I did not know what got into me, I nearly wanted to cry...My eyes were filled with tears. I was touched that there are still people who have the passion, to let the world know they have an ideal. My tears also speak of anguish and heartbreak when I know most ppl do not give a damn.
I perfectly know their reasons why. We are humans. Humans have failures. We are not saints. We do not even bothered to look beyond the corner if our needs can be satisfied momentarily. Who is going to care about my offsprings? I am gonna be dead in so XX number of years. I don't even care whether they can live or not, it's beyond my imagination and power, how on earth am I to care about whether they have freedom of not? What I care about is whether I live happily and have enough to survive.
That's sad. I shiver when I come to think in fact the majority of people in the world (in a smaller scale - HK) are like this.
I wonder if having an ideal meaning being naive? Or should I just be mundane and becoming one of those selfish souless creatures who claim themselves human? One day perhaps my passion will fade, and my inner flame will get extinguished aftering seeing through the world, which you cannot help but sigh, and let the world goes around by itself.
Or an optimist as I am, my inner flame may still there, but I have learnt to hide it, fearing it might get discovered and laughed at. Either way, I still appear as someone who just sigh, and let the world goes around by itself.
It 's slightly comforting perhaps if thinking the unsupportive HK ppl do have the anguish and inner flame burning within, but unwilling to show it. Instead of thinking they are selfish gits.
Some ppl I saw yesterday were from mainland, they came to HK many years ago. They truly speak... they know how it was like back there back then. The reason why they came to HK and why they joined the rally. They are ppl who had gone through the tough times back then in china and that's why they do not want it again here in HK. They were disappointed in HK ppl for their delayed senses. Oh well...
Will the real "IT" ever come?
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