Egypt...

After my last post someone asked me who I am writing for. As an answer, the following Chinese quote:

“If the archer shoots just for fun he has all his skill. If he shoots for score, his hand trembles and his breath is uneasy. If he shoots for a golden price, he becomes mad and blind. His skill was not lessened, but the vision of the target changed him.”

 Therefore, I am not writing for someone, because in this way I would just waste an amazing gift – I would be changed. I am writing because I feel that this is my own expression of God and God’s will, because I am aware of the power of words as everything began with a word.

And right now, I am writing because this is my way to support the ones that are on the streets of Egypt showing what courage, patriotism, unity and love means. They prove that “it is the person that matters “ ( St. Teresa of Avila) not the regimes, nor the political figures.

“We are here as Egyptians, not as judges.”  These are the words of an Egyptian judge who joined the other protesters today. His words followed the ones of a doctor who was defending the Egyptian military by saying that the soldiers will not shoot the people, because they themselves are Egyptians, they themselves are in charge to protect their country, and their country means the citizens. They all have the same aim and this is so simply expressed: “We are all Egyptians!”

I was writing about the power of words…The most simple sentence reveals an amazing truth and gives the power to step further.

The Arabic “sense of powerlessness” I was talking about in my other post quoting Samir Kassir has become an incredible lesson of courage and I am proud to witness amazing history in real time. Moreover, there was not even need for what we call the “can’t live without technology”: internet, mobile phones, media.  In fact,  Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Skype were banned at the start of the week, followed by the stop of any internet connection all over the country on the Friday morning.  But no one can stop people from gathering especially on Iaum al-Juma in a mainly muslim country (Iaum al-Juma means in Arabic the day of gathering).

There is definitely nothing good in wars, revolutions, conflicts, fights, weapons, attacks. But they do make part of our nature as human beings. And they do help us evolve whether we accept it or not. Still everything relies on the way we learn to manage all these, to manage our fear or courage, our angriness, our wish for power and command.

When I was 13, after my grandfather’s death,  I was writing on the first page of my first book:

“ God gives us the power to go on, so that we can make another step. God sends us a good taught, so that we can say the right word. God leaves in our soul the hope, so that we can dream. God sent to the Earth his only law – the law of love.”  

And everything stays again in our hands and hearts…