What the hope I have for 2018 ...
Of course, my utmost hope is to find a solution for all the problems that surround me whatever they are. All people wish this to happen to live in a universe full of serenity and pacificism. But, this puts us into an endless cycle of thinking; what should be done to reach an optimum level of the aforementioned values?
The first step, exploring the nature of troubles that our human societies are stuck with. Then, an analysis from different angles to verify what causes these troubles. When the late Singaporean president had decided to get his country out of the decaying situation, he surveyed the main troubles that his people had been suffering from. He came up with a strategy that, "there won't be a successful nation without applying the morality rules."
Indeed, after urging his people that keeping public places tidy and acting morally is the first step to upgrade. Today, Singapore competes for the most prestigious positions in the world over in many fields. It achieved the renaissance that the president had wished to do.
There are many other examples of such country whose people and leadership had earnestly taken a courageous step into the realm of success. Japan, the country that moved out to show us a role model occupied very successful positions at the international arena, its technological renaissance narrates a story of a country had been ravaged by WWII.
As a Middle Eastern dreamer, I could say that there is a lot of wishes that every individual across the Arab World wishes to achieve to step up as other nations have done. Therefore, I wish one day to see, first of all, stability overwhelms the general scene. This wish might be far-fetched at the moment since the Arab Spring has proven to be as yet a fruitless political process, except the chance that it gave to the Arab masses who courageously went down the street raising up the signs of liberties. Later on, we could say that "Arab Spring" made it possible to ask reluctantly for a minimum level of democratic assembly.
I leave this wish to the time to decide on because it's a bit wasteful of time to wait for the dream of stability to come true while staying idly doing nothing in other fields. Therefore, my second wish is to see our communities embarking on the wagon of change. I assert the fact that we in dire need of change in our Middle Eastern Communities. ... to be continued
