What We Learn This Year

This year we learn, we’ve been betrayed to the smallest detail for such enormous trust placed upon a person by the whole nation for the past 10 years.

As a nation, honesty is not, and might be never, our strength. Good characters building doesn’t really considered important and rarely included in the early years curriculum education. We mostly focus on what’s easy and quick to measure. We’re more interested in things that look shiny outside. We love shortcuts more than anything.

While character is something built in silence, through hundreds of thousands repetition, setbacks and failure for a long period of time. Character is not what you are when the spotlight is on. Your true character is what you are and what you do when no one is looking. Character is when you choose not to do something while you have all the time, chance, power, or energy to do everything.

Money and power are two most reliable tool to test characters. One doesn’t change because of them, it only reveals the true nature of their characters.

We have A LOT OF nice and kind PEOPLE in this country.
But, the right ones? Rarely. Many things happened in this country show a lot how much we fail to nurture such important character from early age.

They said it’s better to be kind than right. Yes, only in very specific personal situations. But, when you deal with the life of more than 280 millions people, being right should be non negotiable. When you dare yourself to take a huge responsibility, like taking’s someone daughter as your partner, or decide to have a child on your own, you can be always nice. You need to do what’s right over what’s nice.

This year we learn to never trust (someone) blindly. Whoever it is.
Always spare (a lot of) rooms for doubts.

I am not a fan like my daughter, but Spongebob has one of the best lines out there :

Spongebob : What if I break your trust someday?
Patrick : Trusting you is my decision. Proving me wrong is your choice.