Idealism

There are times when idealism may kill off the very thing that idealistic individuals have worked so hard to achieve.

The fact remains that while some may have voted for a Malaysian Malaysia last weekend, many others may have merely voted against the status quo without ever having that thought cross their minds. Many of us are too quick to think that just because the apparent results happen to have agreed with our ideologies, it prooves that our ideologies have actually taken hold. We become too blind to see what lies directly ahead, but instead look so far ahead into the horizon that we run the risk of falling into the snake-filled pit in front.

We're not quite ready for change which is too drastic. As much as many herald the dawn of a new era and propose a shift in paradigm, perhaps we've all been a tad too unrealistic about it. We call for reform from the upper echelons of government to right a system that they themselves have put in place, yet take no heed in doing anything on our own. All we ever tell ourselve is to vote. Voting is merely one of the many things we can do to help yet we think by just voting we can save the world. We think that by watering a seed once and seeing it sprout, it will grow into a tree all by itself.

Apathy may kill. But half-assed armchair activism kills faster.