Leaving the motherland- last part
So, this is the situation many (may be thousands) are trapped in: missing the country, the people, whatever related to her, and then, living on in foreign land and whining and moaning.
This is the question (I know that many in our part of the world face it too): you love your motherland? But are dissatisfied with the system and the situation there? You are weary of uneducated people and ignorance? You are exhausted of arguing on simplest things which are so clear to every westerner but still your people seem so dumb to it? You hate the dirty alleys, the noisy streets, the traffic and the pollution? You think you have a right to have a decent life and you don't have it in your motherland? You want to have a better future for your children? A stable, reasonable life? And you think you lack it in your own country? So, which price are you ready to pay for the changes to happen there? I know political opponents who have left the country for survival, have paid a lot already. But the condition has changed drastically. Many who were in the black list two decades ago, will be ignored so easily if they come back; nobody is going to trouble to question them. But still they don't get back. WHY?
This country, having deep roots in the history, living a long long life for millenniums deserves much better than this. We have natural wealth, many talents, good people and dear souls and have many things to offer and to give to the world, to human beings. BUT we don't right now. We can't play our real role due to inefficiency of the system ruling our country. Because of the corruption and mismanagement we are much less than what we should be. So, who is going to help to correct this situation? If all those who learn something here, all those who educate here, leave the country (as they do right now and have been doing for years) who is going to help constructing this land?
We love to have a developed country. We all love this piece of land-called Iran (that's for Iranians, it can be subsituted by Pakistan, Lebanon, Syria, etc). BUT we don't bother helping it to rise on her knees. We separate the future of ourselves from the future of our country fellows. So, this situation never is going to change. This country would be the same as it has been for centuries- because Change is something happening by our own hands; no miracle or no unseen hands from heavens is going to play the role.
This is the question (I know that many in our part of the world face it too): you love your motherland? But are dissatisfied with the system and the situation there? You are weary of uneducated people and ignorance? You are exhausted of arguing on simplest things which are so clear to every westerner but still your people seem so dumb to it? You hate the dirty alleys, the noisy streets, the traffic and the pollution? You think you have a right to have a decent life and you don't have it in your motherland? You want to have a better future for your children? A stable, reasonable life? And you think you lack it in your own country? So, which price are you ready to pay for the changes to happen there? I know political opponents who have left the country for survival, have paid a lot already. But the condition has changed drastically. Many who were in the black list two decades ago, will be ignored so easily if they come back; nobody is going to trouble to question them. But still they don't get back. WHY?
This country, having deep roots in the history, living a long long life for millenniums deserves much better than this. We have natural wealth, many talents, good people and dear souls and have many things to offer and to give to the world, to human beings. BUT we don't right now. We can't play our real role due to inefficiency of the system ruling our country. Because of the corruption and mismanagement we are much less than what we should be. So, who is going to help to correct this situation? If all those who learn something here, all those who educate here, leave the country (as they do right now and have been doing for years) who is going to help constructing this land?
We love to have a developed country. We all love this piece of land-called Iran (that's for Iranians, it can be subsituted by Pakistan, Lebanon, Syria, etc). BUT we don't bother helping it to rise on her knees. We separate the future of ourselves from the future of our country fellows. So, this situation never is going to change. This country would be the same as it has been for centuries- because Change is something happening by our own hands; no miracle or no unseen hands from heavens is going to play the role.
posted by Laila @ 8:05 AM
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4 Comments:
The despotic regime killed and imprisoned the most sincere, intelligent, beautiful (inward and outward) youth who were the future of Iran. They were kind, giving and loving and sacrificed their life for Iran, a free Iran.
Those of us who have survived (bad luck in my opinion as every day without the loved family members and friends who lost their life has been living hell) are so frustrated that we will be arrested if we return. It would be impossible to hide our frustration.
I totally agree with you to say that those killed were the most beautiful ones, but shouldn't it urge us to follow them? What they loved was the best for this country, so are we committed to what they paid their lives for? Frustration is a human reaction. That's for sure. But if we just stick to it - or let it stick to us- nothing good would come out of it.
Well, I don't know about your situation. What I say is for most of the exiled. They CAN get back and actually many have come to visit their families in recent years and most of them haven't faced any problems at all.
The situation you describe is not unique. The same is prevalent in my country, Bulgaria, and throughout Eastern Europe since 1989.
Here I am one of those who graduated an excellent and free Bulgarian university and now studies in Brittain. And complains and moans constantly! (i am definitely moving out as soon as I finish my phd!!! maybe not to bg though...)
I think it is not so much about the government system - my country is purported to have a "democracy", and i should say we enjoy much greater personal freedom than the british.
It is more to do with people's heads and hearts as you go east. Because of that all things happen with more difficulty here, and one gets more spite in everything that he does. From there comes also the inability to run the state smoothly and orderly as one wishes.
Yet, after living in the easy and numbed West for a few years, I started to cherish the "interesting times". But still: it is a good therapy 3 weeks of the year, I have yet to see if I will enjoy it again 365 days a year.
Good luck Nikola,
I hope you would find it good to get back home to stay for long.
The country needs you.
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