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The emptying bottle…

Sep 20, 2012 Letters

 

Dear Editor,
As I wake up to start my day, I can’t help but feel an eerie sadness for the state our country is currently in. This sadness affects all sections of our society and its decline and demise seems imminent.
Life today seems so radical that it is difficult to put a logical spin on what is occurring. There is hopelessness, sin, moral decay, corruption and fear at every turn. Am I better off today that what I was 25-plus years ago?
It’s hard to put into words the suffocating feelings that our existence today generates and permeates. It’s hard to turn a blind eye at the many poor and impoverished, the loss and lack of opportunities, the willingness to end it all. There exists such an imbalance today that the forces of right and wrong, good and evil, are haggling at each other in an effort to exterminate one or the other – the positive being the weaker.
Evil is rampant and there is little hope for reform, for criminals enter jail with certificates and leave with Master’s degrees. There is such a moral and religious decline that people have little or no compulsive forces left in them to stay the course for a good, clean life. We are bombarded with inequities that shape us towards negative practices and cause the decline in society. We were not all meant to be prosperous or equal in this world, life challenges us to strive to stay on course to gain an ultimate, unknown success which different religions describe. Am I preaching or being practical?
Once upon a time, we could say once upon a time with great expectations… it usually referenced something good. Today that is no more. The bottle is emptying gradually and nothing is left to refill it. The anger and hate among our people is building. The radicals are out and about; causing no peace of mind and spirit. What do we do? Just watch? Just wait? Try harder? Fight fate? It all seems inevitable. I ask anyone reading this to at least try harder to be the positive change you would like to see in your society and teach those closest to you, for if we cannot refill the bottle, we can at least stop emptying it.
S. Ali

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