I can feel my heart beating faster, I can feel the hair o my neck stand at full attention like a well trained corporal. I can't describe it, but I know and I can sense an overwhelming energy moving through my body. I feel my heart release this energy to pump vibrantly through my veins till it occupies every crevice in my body, it fills the tiniest inch of me. It digs deep to my very core, taking control of what I see, what i breathe, what i smell, what I feel and what I hear. After years of dormant, inert slumber, i awaken to the true reality of a cruel and destructive world. A world where comfortable lies are preferred to harsh truths. A world where a scramble for control and power leaves behind a twisted and gory wasteland of collateral. where a battle of ideas precedes the preservation of the world. We are swept along-in the name of conformity, in this amazing force of destructive river that seeks to end our very existence as we know it.
But I refuse to be dragged along with the unjust and evil river of ignorance and conformity. As for me, I shall deepen my roots in the soil of education, knowledge and wonder. I shan't be swept away. I shall not be a slave to fear neither shall I allow comfort seduce me. For everyday i seek to make a promise of Albert Camus' words; my very existence shall be a rebellion. Yes, we have been beaten down, tricked, deceived, exploited, and insulted, but we have not been silenced. Our voices shall no longer be the whisper that is easily brushed away as the nuisance of a buzzing fly. No, we shall be that growling before the bark, lightening before thunder, that rumbling before the storm. Slowly, our voices will become louder, our decibels defying the exploitative laws of this broken world. Until there is just one unifying deafening roar which would be heard in the deepest trenches and the highest mountain. Until our voices shake and break the chains of this imposed order.
So wherever you are, with everything you do, let your truth shine. Speak the truth, sing the truth, write the truth, paint the truth. Your truth shall be the rebellion. Let your truth be light and soon enough all those asleep in the darkness shall awaken to the light.
