Thursday, May 21, 2009

Radical changes

I've been reading about Black Panthers, an organization that promotes Black Power and self-defense. They were an icon of counterculture in the time where coloured people were mistreated in the United States during 1960's. The Black Panthers Party had this notion about negating racial exclusivity; they organized a lot of community programs to alleviate poverty and improve health service for the minority, regardless of race and religion.
Unfortunately, like faith gone rampant, the organization had diverted from their true objectives.
Just like the situation in West Asia, where zealotry runs rampant and people start to kill each other because of the difference in faith.
The world is changing, how much?, I can't tell much because I have been living less than two decades. Though, I can certainly have a few words on the changes that I've seen during my sojourn on this physical body of mine. Back then, commodity price was lower. Back then, neighbours still swap dishes and juicy gossips (it's pretty rare nowadays to have that kind of exchange). These days, you can't even get a decent popsicle lower tahn 30 cent (the thing that never change is Tiger Orange Popsicle still cost 20 cent). These changes may not seem radical for most, but these things sure move up fast; there're bound to be more changes in the future. Because we live, changes are constantly needed to keep the world moving.
We live, laugh, do damage to certain degree, feel sad, anger and remorse, for some, live the way we want, and then come death. Life sounds meaningless sometimes? Yep, it does, for me. Still, I believe that we live for a purpose, each to fit with the design of fate for the future. It sounds SO poetic. Hahaha. So, I shall not lose all my marbles in one go and keep my faith that I am able to bring changes to the world, to make it better for the future generation.