Hilal's Notes

within; the Silence in misery

When objective is what you need to achieve, in what ever we do there will be certain factors which deviates us from our objectives. Our environment and social implanted beliefs which the stakeholders carry with them are some of the factors for deviation of our personal objectives of getting along with them. But a visionary never stops visualizing what needs to be done to overcome the challenges.

When our objective remains to be educating young adults we see the target customers are not willing to accept the responsibilities which are being facilitated to them through hard ship of labor of our team. There are good enough reasons for it. When we start the evaluation from the scratch and where this belief or system for them to take responsibility is implanted its sad to quote we do not have an infrastructure applied for personal responsibilities within people. Which we shall say has to apply in a level of basics of life. It has been said that teaching and training young adults are the responsibilities of the teachers and the trainers. Where children are carefree in a way that what ever they do, they are supposed to be accepted to the community. This happens they have a belief that even when they do not take the responsibility of studies it is the duty of the government, society and the parents to get jobs or make them kings and queens. In reality they end up in ruins after few years.

Far from reality they live their lives, unknowingly disperse time where a generation or two has been lost with the time. Once upon a time people said they did not have facilities, but what happens to them when there are facilities. The imagination for reality is always a dream for them. What they want has to be fulfilled by the community one way or the other. But they need not to change a bit of their styles. What we see is a bunch of youngsters with a lot of demands, where they do not know what actually they are demanding. They do not know the reality is a harder job when it comes to live a life. Living is a condition they will see when the time of real life faces them. Then it would be too late for them change.

It is not one or two days practice which comes into life where things has gone so bad to worse. What I need to express is that it is a generations of irresponsibility is results what we se today. I am not wondering and I am not going to point finger to specific people in our community but I am sure that they know what they did to make this “I would call” disaster to happen. It surely includes parents, politicians and teachers and senior citizens and many others in the community.

Today we need to see changes for the generation who is out of control. How we can change them into responsible citizens? What are the measures which can be taken? Who needs to be aware of what is going on? What is it that we actually need for a change?

On an angle to make sure the community needs are well met what we seek and talk about is “finance”. I will say that finance is nothing but fuel to make our society worse in all the concepts. If economical boost comes in without learning to be responsible, our people will be lost and worst in every aspect. What we need today is direction. Direction towards the life goals of the people, tell them how they can set their goals in life. How can they be helped in better ways they dream today? Explain it to people that money is not everything. Money will be there when there are responsible citizen and that is how our forefathers has got the wealth. Just being imaginative responsible people in their lives who did have long term goals which have been ruined by some predators. Can we face the type of predators now with this mentality?

Is this the island we all are proud of? The island of richness! The island where economy was uncompetitive to any other island in the Maldives! The island where finance was the last concern when communicating for public needs! The island where people had fought for freedom and balance in the country! What I see today is everyone is looking into their fair share and trying to steal what ever they can from which ever the angle they could. If it is being communicated to community people say “the system is corrupted therefore we need to be corrupted or we cannot survive. You better change the system to change us“

Is it the system or the government or the people that needs to changed? The book of Allah says that the change of people will give the opportunity to change the system, when the system is changed the government will change automatically. It is on to us the people to change ourselves come out from our greed to have a better tomorrow. It is what the book of god states.

I feel empty inside when I see people walking on the street without any aim for their lives. I see people who do not bother to know what reality is. I see a public without hope. I see relatives are on dopes. Who is it that I can rely on when there are people as such, where my objectives are deviated to a lower level than my hope brought me back to where I was born.

Today we need to structure the education of our nursery schools, educate parents, change the infra-structure of education and develop life goals in youth groups. I am sure this will give an idea of what kind of a Thinadhoo we have.

I cannot let this tear drop fall since I still have hope and faith in people of Thinadhoo because we are the breed of a culture which I still am proud of.