To The Crying Generation To Which I Belong

I've been around to many blogs though it was not long ago to happen to know that there is something called "blog" which may be due to my dislike of technology however I know I'm not right. But what really attracted my attention is that most of these blogs as well as the newspapers of our time do nothing but crying. I dont ecxclude myself -if I'm ablogger aslan- but actually we belong to the crying generation. we came after the revolutionists of both the 19th and 2oth century who developed their thoughts gradually from protesting against stagnant norms and habits and made their way to erupting revolutions in many fields and of many forms. They warred against poverty, tyranny and inequity; they also warred against the propagandists of religion that lead the masses away from the true instructions of religion. they also had a great contribution to freeing women from the patriarchal hold which lasted since the dawn of history; and their wars were fruitful.

Everything starts with a word. first we say it then we dream of achieving it and finally work hard to bring it into being. That's what has been made through history and among different races. But first there must be the word.

And we, where is our word? what is our ambition? do we dream of achieving it? And how do we work it out?

What i noticed is simply that we treat the ideas of our predecessors by which they managed to squeeze through the narrow openning of light and achieve their revolutions, but for another purpose if ever we have a purpose, for shouting and crying.
I pity us. We are stuck in the twist of a futuristic hazy picture and an over-demanding past, and after all a present that offers no heading.

I belive as no specific one in revolution. Talking about egypt, we suffer from many many problems; social, political or cultural. The main social problem i stumble by in the blogs, newspapers, fiction or diaries is the problem of "LOVE" - which I may like to call it the problem of "MARRIAGE" - and the main cause of it is poverty that increased because of the failure of some institutions -such as the educational institution and the employment institution and others- to find solutions for it besides the negative habits of our society that stike the young couples in the face. This is a brief sample for the mytaphysical poblem of marriage. our cultural problems are more mytaphysical since they were brought about by millions of factors of which someone like me is totally incapable of any suggestions. The same also applies to our political problems which are the result of our cultural instability.

What I have a word on now is the problem of marriage. And what I dream of now is a revolution made by the young people who are deprived from that divine right because of a sort of nonsense. I wish I could see the lovers who are spread through the streets of cairo, in cafe's and clubs carrying out a sit-in or if they have courage, making a revolution threatening of either getting married or not going home agian or marrying each other in the street.

Actually I'm not kidding, but I see that if we learn how to marry, we will learn how to bring up children and so our cultural attitude will be an attitude of individuals who are able to make use of all the past generation's contributions and employ them the way they suit us.

The problem of marriage is not only a problem of unemployment or bad financial conditions, but it also has other dimensions on many levels. The most occurring to my mind now is the problem of women who are sold and bought to who is going to pay more. The problem of marriage also has its drastic implication on the children who live as parentless because of a failed marriage. It brings to our world a whole heap of generations who are not aware of their role in life or their cultural responsibility.. and it is a responsibility and everyone of us must reconsider his/her qualifications and what he or she has to produce.