IF A COUNTRY is considered a home to its people, the ruling party is a household leader. Everything about the situation of this home reflect the ability of this man because all family member rely on him. He may need to out to find bread and butter for his family. He may have to work enough job so that all expenses can be paid. No matter what he does as long as he support this family to his children. He may refurnish the house when he got extra earn. He may sell out some part of heritage when he has short budget. He may try to plant some vegetable in the empty ground behind the house so as to minimize kitchen bills. Anyway, he is skeleton of the whole family and he is responsible for all outcomes regardless of good or bad.
It has been few years our people suffer from extra-ordinary weather. They need to brave chilly cold in the winter days while they need to resist hell-like hot in the summer days. On rainy season, they will be sick and tired of waiting monsoon rain coming the right time for cultivation. They used alternative expensive method to cultivate when the rain appear never come right time. Things become bad to worse when the angry rain come at the unwanted time such as right time to collect crop at final stage. It effectively spoil their whole season efforts and of course severely effect their solely income. They have nowhere to complain but point the faith/bad luck. They have no body who might assist of their relief. They have no idea but swallow all pains coming in their daily life. They sometime seems like a boat without an engine in the sea. Nowhere to reach but accept all troubles that come merciless.
What should have been accused then? What should have been a reason behind such bad things. Of course, we can't control some specific things such as natural disaster. But I do believe we can mitigate them if we are cautious enough. We can reduce effect if we have a good policy with broaden targets. We can block some of them if we have a smart government. We are seemingly given one of the best land in this planet. We don't need to worry for land to cultivate, water to drink, sunshine to warm, weather to enjoy, natural resources to discover and make wealth of nation, gems to polish our lives, people to works, etc. Unfortunately we're still one of the poorest countries in the world. Who is committing most to drive this situation?
I have to go back to a leader of our house. He takes the roof out for selling. Then how can we get a proper roof to prevent troubles like rains? He takes the external walls out to export. Then how can we get a warm home? He even digs our ground for some precious gems, oils & gas in attempt of getting rich. Then where do our child go for play? He might have thought our skin are thick enough to resist natural disaster. He might have thought we are big enough to go out and find our foods without needing his assist. He might have thought the life would be finished after he dies. Finally the heritage house given by our grand great fathers is destroyed apart gradually. Nobody doing this but we do it ourselves. Once we don't know how to dismantle it, he may want to hire our neighbour to help him destroy our home.
We don't know if he has any idea to replace our old house by newer and better ones. It is up to him because he is our breadwinner. We don't know how much his pocket is fat. If he withdraw us from school for work, we have no choice to follow his idea because he is the one paying our tuition fees. If he opt to traditional medicine to cure our wounds, we have no choice but taking it as he will come out with complains of expensive medical bills by western hospital. Our family members use clothes one after another until it become dirty clothes. It meaning our living standard worsen by time as the eldest brother wore new one and all younger siblings have to wear outdated his outfits. We can't imagine for new model as he'll say his pocket is running out for something he love to own. He love to go hunting in the forest and of course he'ld love to spend most of his earn on buying arms. We have no choice to complain his behavior because he is a captain of our house. We try to convince ourselves by thinking we can eat a good meal if he gets some animals from his hunting. But it's hard seeing him come back home with some beast whenever he go out hunt because he's not a good shooter.
Finally, we used to this situation and even fail to look around our neighbours. Because we have to work from dawn to night so that we can have enough foods and no time to judge others. Since no one in our family is educated, it's very much obvious we can't get a good paid jobs. So it's no wonder we all family members become blue-collar workers and have to work until our hairs out for daily necessities. We don't want to think of long future as there are too thicken cloudy ahead and we are not good enough to think of our future. We have been denied to access a good education and we eventually became duds. How much can you expect from duds? Not much, right? But we tried to enjoy our life with the things we have especially with our religious thinking. Being Buddhist is the best ever gift in our life given to us to date, I believe. Who can change our fate finally? Probably only God will know the answer.
It has been few years our people suffer from extra-ordinary weather. They need to brave chilly cold in the winter days while they need to resist hell-like hot in the summer days. On rainy season, they will be sick and tired of waiting monsoon rain coming the right time for cultivation. They used alternative expensive method to cultivate when the rain appear never come right time. Things become bad to worse when the angry rain come at the unwanted time such as right time to collect crop at final stage. It effectively spoil their whole season efforts and of course severely effect their solely income. They have nowhere to complain but point the faith/bad luck. They have no body who might assist of their relief. They have no idea but swallow all pains coming in their daily life. They sometime seems like a boat without an engine in the sea. Nowhere to reach but accept all troubles that come merciless.
What should have been accused then? What should have been a reason behind such bad things. Of course, we can't control some specific things such as natural disaster. But I do believe we can mitigate them if we are cautious enough. We can reduce effect if we have a good policy with broaden targets. We can block some of them if we have a smart government. We are seemingly given one of the best land in this planet. We don't need to worry for land to cultivate, water to drink, sunshine to warm, weather to enjoy, natural resources to discover and make wealth of nation, gems to polish our lives, people to works, etc. Unfortunately we're still one of the poorest countries in the world. Who is committing most to drive this situation?
I have to go back to a leader of our house. He takes the roof out for selling. Then how can we get a proper roof to prevent troubles like rains? He takes the external walls out to export. Then how can we get a warm home? He even digs our ground for some precious gems, oils & gas in attempt of getting rich. Then where do our child go for play? He might have thought our skin are thick enough to resist natural disaster. He might have thought we are big enough to go out and find our foods without needing his assist. He might have thought the life would be finished after he dies. Finally the heritage house given by our grand great fathers is destroyed apart gradually. Nobody doing this but we do it ourselves. Once we don't know how to dismantle it, he may want to hire our neighbour to help him destroy our home.
We don't know if he has any idea to replace our old house by newer and better ones. It is up to him because he is our breadwinner. We don't know how much his pocket is fat. If he withdraw us from school for work, we have no choice to follow his idea because he is the one paying our tuition fees. If he opt to traditional medicine to cure our wounds, we have no choice but taking it as he will come out with complains of expensive medical bills by western hospital. Our family members use clothes one after another until it become dirty clothes. It meaning our living standard worsen by time as the eldest brother wore new one and all younger siblings have to wear outdated his outfits. We can't imagine for new model as he'll say his pocket is running out for something he love to own. He love to go hunting in the forest and of course he'ld love to spend most of his earn on buying arms. We have no choice to complain his behavior because he is a captain of our house. We try to convince ourselves by thinking we can eat a good meal if he gets some animals from his hunting. But it's hard seeing him come back home with some beast whenever he go out hunt because he's not a good shooter.
Finally, we used to this situation and even fail to look around our neighbours. Because we have to work from dawn to night so that we can have enough foods and no time to judge others. Since no one in our family is educated, it's very much obvious we can't get a good paid jobs. So it's no wonder we all family members become blue-collar workers and have to work until our hairs out for daily necessities. We don't want to think of long future as there are too thicken cloudy ahead and we are not good enough to think of our future. We have been denied to access a good education and we eventually became duds. How much can you expect from duds? Not much, right? But we tried to enjoy our life with the things we have especially with our religious thinking. Being Buddhist is the best ever gift in our life given to us to date, I believe. Who can change our fate finally? Probably only God will know the answer.
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