independent ker?
Celebrating the month of independence day & yet a day more to go into the anniversary of 50th Malaysia independence day, make me thinking to nag a bit about this event. I do respect the things that our past leaders made in order to make us independent, but frankly speaking i still feel like merdeka is just merdeka. Merely an event which people assemble & singing the patriotic song (with ‘mahu tak mahu’ inside), raising their flags at home and car which will be ‘dush’ somewhere not to be found on earth after a month of the celebration, big companies try to show their so-called responsibilities by sponsoring the mini or mega concert which attracts all the teenagers to come & with that tickets some of them take advantage by doing extra ‘project’ afterward (this is not an accusation, but the fact getting from the obstretic & gynecology department).
Ok, maybe i am too negative minded about all these things. Maybe it just me who think merdeka in that way. Maybe there are some young people out there who really cry during the prime minister shouting the merdeka words. (ok, again this might be the extreme example). But still, i am wondering how am i supposed to celebrate it to show tt i’m so proud to be Malaysian, too grateful to be born here (or specifically in Hospital Kajang), too thankful to be able to receive the JPA scholar because i am Malaysian (& have a very great shopping moment though =)
I still remember the day when i had a little chat with nenek (before she was attack by stroke) that it is not easy to be independent. And i can see the spirit of ‘proud to be Malaysian’ glitter in her eyes, especially when she said that we should appreciate the government as there were the one who fight for our independent before, not any of the opponents (ok, i’m not trying to promote or against any party here coz it could be the big agenda as the pilihanraya is coming. I just QUOTING what she said, as i know that JPA will not raising my scholar just because i’m saying this).
Another nenek of mine (whom i just called maktuk) also told me that she has to get married early (9 years young if i’m not mistaken) so that she will be safe from any of the communists whom notoriously known would rape any beautiful young girls, not married, single and available, long nice ikal mayang hair with the lesung pipit di pipi (hehe.. another melampau exaggeration). But that’s the truth. So, even though recently she has been diagnosed unprofessionally by me as having dementia or others of the family members as ‘nyanyuk’, fascinatingly she still remember the event of the merdeka & anything related with the merdeka things.
I try to fakely show that i am patriotic as others show (even theirs would be fake as well), but the non-hypocrite side of me says i could never ever be as patriotic as the old generations do. When they raising the flag, it means that they really want to raise the flag & totally proud to raise the flag. But if i raise the flag, half of the reason could be due to i am proud to raise it but another half is because i get it free & dun want to be labelled as not patriotic by not putting it at the right place.
Maybe that is the action which hard for me to be sincere, but only Allah knows how much i am proud to be Malaysian. For me, being independent is not only raising the flag matters. If we want to appreciate what our past leaders had done, try to learn the history. As tomok also said that ‘sejarah mungkin berulang’. Show our appreciation by continuing what they had done. Study hard in whatever fields & try to return back to the community what they had missed. Serve the government back as the fact is u are serving to the community. Be a knowledgeable generations, not by queuing up when any of the sing contest is held (kalo mmg berbakat kira boleh mahapla, tapi kalau… ??)
After all, we had a lot of things can be done to show our patriotism. For Muslims, we can always show our gratitude by performing solat sunat syukur 2 rakaat instead of wasting sweat & bersesak2 at so-called merdeka concert. Btw, lets raise our flag together as the 1st start!
