Notes Of A Father

Echo To The Past

#1 The world is not as progressive as what we hope for.

My father warned me that people are selfish and stupid, and dangerously reckless. He asserted that they can get you into peril and yet not feel the shame or responsibility for it. Their ego blind them from curing their apathy, bigotry and stupidity, which fuels their selfishness in the first place. He reminded me to be guarded and to not become one of them. I can understand how he became who he was. He was disappointed, he was betrayed and cast to the edge of life and death. He experienced the worst a child can have for a childhood — in the battlefields where people would betray and abandon each other in the darkest moments.

For generations, my family was caught in the midst of the fog of wars. I was fortunate to be the generation after him to be spared from the battlefields. Yet unfortunately over the years, people had proven to be disappointing even when the desperation had not been so dismal and draconian. When people follow their desires and justify their causes ‘religiously’, as we had seen how clustered self-serving groups lynch another at their proclaimed values and beliefs, how can we justify the morals of those who claimed their self-defined righteousness? Socrates was voted to death. The quality and sanity of justice depends on the…