Grim and evil
A friend of mine described what I’ve written in this site as ‘a bit too riotous’. ‘But, for a rocker, it’ll do’, he added. I am aware of the grimness and anger written here, but it’s time for one more irated piece now.
An assignment in English class. ‘What would you like to do in the future?’ One of my colleagues asks me to translate his work. Oblivious to what I was about to read, I took the piece of paper he handed me. Here goes: ‘I wanna open a firm, and be my own boss. Also, I would like X (another colleague’s name) to be my workmate.’ The end. In the tenth grade, this is the dream and aspiration level… Should I generalise or not? Well, here’s another piece of evidence… During the same class, it was time to translate X’s assignment as well. Here’s a sample of his ideals: ‘I’ll buy a truck. Make transports, and with the profit earned I’ll open a timber factory’. All in all, this may be the real thing, the step-by-step approach on life that could turn out successful. Why the devil worry about the future, make far-fetched plans and so forth? Use this instinctual view, as a monkey during its jump thinks only about which branch to grasp next.
OK, he’ll buy his truck and he’ll probably make loads of money. But it truly did struck me to understand the ‘Weltanschauung’ (vision of life) of one of my congeners. What, I wonder, are his anxious questions about life, death, God etc, given his age now? Or, even better, do those questions exist? Because it seems that there’s an inner vacuum perduring in him. How else could that given answer in that bloody class be explained?
What more can I say? That I wish for a country in which money won’t be the main concern and in which an average teenager will have higher goals than to become a driver? In which patriotism will be more than a biannually conveyed notion – on the 1st of December and the 24th of January… In which patriotism will have a reason, not just a face – a true country for which to strife…
‘I’ve seen, the future, brother, it is murder’…
