The Blurriness behind the Face of Bitter Truth…
I was walking to the dinning service in the dark after my stomach started protesting for food. Not even thinking of my country for a minute, I happened to sit at a table where the discussion was going to be about my country and his. I do not remember what the ongoing conversation was about, but I spit out a statement. “What about other countries?...” as I was biting the food from my fork. Moments later, he turned his attention to my statement after finishing another conversation. This American student whose head was full of political knowledge began talking about how it is America’s fault who keeps interfering in the issues of other countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Vietnam from the past to now. This conversation of ours about Afghanistan’s war and America’s engagement in it for more than an hour that did not even finish as we reached midnight.
What fascinated me about this conversation was how an American young adult knew about this critical issue compared to a lot of people who do not know anything about my country or this issue in general. We have yet to continue with this conversation. One thing that we believed in common was that a country should not attempt to interfere in another country especially when it creates more mess than peace. I yet have to know his thoughts about current political condition of his country – America only.
Keeping current political tension of America in mind during their election time. I decided to watch the presidential debate the other night while working on my poetry project for class. I was not planning on watching a comedy show but a political one – a more serious one. Here appeared the two candidates welcomed by head lights and their audience. During the whole debate session, these two old political figures were scapegoating each other and other countries regarding the economy of their country. Every single word and every facial expression pained me to laughter like many other audience. I thought if verbal politics is to cause laughter and to be laughed at then practical politics is to cause tears and cry for… I have been looking for the definition of politics in its authentic form not in its political form perhaps the political definition of politics is more practiced than any other form of it. So far I have come upon only one definition of politics – a blurry but bitter one that stem from my conversation with people about different issues like the one mentioned above and other source like media’s portrayal of politics. I started walking back to my room under the dark sky attempting to have hope for my country and the world…
