Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Journey 1423: to boldly go where no Arab Country has gone before!

The free people of Tunisia chose on the 14th and confirmed on the 23rd their choice of a modern democratic society.

However, while the 14th ushered this new freedom era, democracy remains far beyond voting. It also requires, among others, vigilance and a strong will to defend one's conviction in a civilized manner while respecting others.

We just started our democratic journey and it is worthy of our martyrs and the expectations of our future generations and the true free world.

Today is time to learn from the outcomes of our first democratic step. Empowered with this fresh experience and lessons, we are called to invent a new political paradigm for Tunisia and why not the rest of the World.

Before ending this short and challenging but optimistic blog, I'd like to share with you few poetic words from Khalil Gibran's The Prophet.

The Coming of the Ship:
...
And now your ship has come, and you must needs go. Deep is your longing for the land of your memories and the dwelling-place of your greater desires; and our love would not bind you nor our needs hold you. Yet this we ask ere you leave us, that you speak to us and give us of your truth. And we will give it unto our children, and they unto their children, and it shall not perish. In your aloneness you have watched with our days, and in your wakefulness you have listened to the weeping and the laughter of our sleep. Now therefore disclose us to ourselves, and tell us all that has been shown you of that which is between birth and death.

And he answered,
People of "Free Tunisia," of what can I speak save of that which is even now moving your souls?

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