My Confession Box

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Today is akin to pay day. People work to get paid, but what happens if your work and your effort goes to waste? Fortunately for me, today was a good day in which my basketball practices have shown some results. But what has to be understood is that there are times in which your efforts do not produce the expected the results. As mentioned before, I am one who gets disappointed easily. But what matters most is that you have given it your 100%. I believe that regardless of what you do the blood and sweat that you shed will pay off one way or another.

Well set aside the good that has happened to me today, there is the bad too. I always mentioned about my tendency to back off when problems gets too complex. I hope that in time to come, I will not be a coward that backs off when troubles lurks. Many of us would have come across the term “The never-ending viscous cycle”, I manage to chance upon these circumstances quite a number of times. Today was such a day, but instead of simply chancing across it became indirectly experiencing it. It reminded me of what I read in a magazine about the situation in Afghanistan. Afghanistan, an impoverished country trapped in such a cycle. Although the international committee has assigned NATO to aid in terms of foreign intervention, however the help provided isn’t enough. The general idea is that a power plant built has to be repaired and it’s production is incomplete, because of the existence of the Taliban materials cannot be delivered simply by trucks, but instead by helicopters. The NATO’s limited forces can do nothing but defend the region and supplying people of the vicinity “Monetary Aid”, but once the forces return to their designated region the Taliban robs and terrorizes these people. One might be curious how does the Taliban get the money to fuel its organization? Well the answer is pretty simple, Opium traffickers provide helpless farmers with seeds and fertilizers to grow the raw material for heroin which in turn finances the insurgents.

This reminds me of “Water Right” situation in Africa and also people who are heavily in-debt. Superheroes such as Batman and Ironman, how do they manage to protect the innocent? They only manage to do it because they are loaded. In the future, I too hope I can be "loaded" one way or another, providing aid to such people caught in these viscous cycles.
[To become one who commands the respect of others]

the origin.9:32 PM