They say that a scholar’s name will be remembered
for a few years after his passing, but a warrior shall forever be remembered.
If you look at it from all sides, it can only seem to be seen as praise because
the warrior took it upon himself to free and defend the weak and oppressed. The
scholar chose to tell all the people in the world something that they did not
know. But in all honesty it is a curse.
Why?
Because the warrior was once a significant nobody.
The ones who ruled saw no reason to get rid of this warrior. But that is the
false confidence of the rulers. They dim those insignificant at the moment
little more than cockroaches. But experience turns a cockroach into an animal.
This animal can become something else and in turn it too become an overzealous
and confident being worth killing, and that is when the ruler decides to
strike…but alas it is too late, because the ruler created the very monster that
will destroy him in the name of freedom and justice.
You see once seated at the top, the warrior fails to
see that true skill is in fact not a blazing flame. A predictable attack has
the most predictable outcome. That is how he views the cockroach until the
insect becomes one that can oppose him and make him quiver in his breeches.
In the start of his or her journey, the warrior
fights for code, duty, honour and freedom before the stupor of power removes
all sense of right from the warrior. That is when the warrior will fall from
the top to the very bottom until another warrior takes up the sword against him
to free the weak and defenceless.
The way that the world was, men and women were
forced to fight as children for all their ideals, until eventually they could
live as nothing else. Even with a desire to seek peace and understanding with
every soul, those that are warriors always use force to eliminate the evil that
is in the world. Warriors are burdened with sin, covered in scars and yet they
continue to fight for their ideals removing those that are oppressing the weak.
Their way is extremely sad and it eventually leads
them down a dark path often filled with blood and tears. In this world full of
contradictions the sins of taking life never changes, but to change all that a
meaning must be found.
Just look at our history. It is full of these
warriors. If I start to mention them, I might end up in trouble, but the mist
obvious examples are Milton Obote and Idi Amin. They were warriors on a
righteous path, men with a vision, their sword was the will of the weak and
their shield was their sense of duty, code, honour, freedom and justice. They
all start out loved and adored before the seat of power corrupts them.
They start out with good intentions; intentions that
kindness is extended to everyone. But those intentions turn into decrees. The
warriors force those intentions down the throats of those who would aid them in
governing, which is no different from an evil act. They abandon all that they
love giving self-serving excuses to make themselves feel a lot better about
themselves.
They lose sight of what they really wanted. The
desire to see a beautiful tomorrow is what matters in the beginning but in the
end, they desire to keep the world in today, refusing to face reality and
abandoning the rest of the world to its dirty fate. They do not choose reality
and the forward march of time thinking that they have the only truth. You see
the line between good and evil is almost as thin as the line between love and
hate if not thinner. That is why good intentions of a warrior can so easily
turn into evil intentions.
And that is why warriors must give way to the
scholars. You see my friend, with warriors at the heart and top of power, mankind
cannot move forward into the future. Warriors are afraid of change because they
believe that the world is in an endless cycle and in truth it is, because men
gather to exchange shows of force instead of ideas. Mankind is yearning for
that future that the warriors so boldly sit on.
Men everywhere want to see a bright new dawn. They
want to see the world change. We will always be grateful to the warriors
because they had the energy to destroy an old system that kept bringing out the
worst in themselves. They destroy the world and create a falsehood that is the
new world only for it to turn back into the same old world they fought against.
In turn they are demonized and all sorts of hateful
and evil things are blamed on the warriors, and that is simply because men
prefer to blame their sadness on a person instead of the world created by that
person.
But until the warriors understand that they should
lay down their arms and embrace the future, the world will never be free of the
past, never able to move forward into the uncharted waters of the future full
of possibility. True those of world who cannot pick up the warrior’s sword,
will never understand the true problems of the world. But we will have to
figure out those problems by ourselves in a changed world with fewer warriors
in power.
Even so we will find a way to make the world a place
where no one has to pick the warrior’s way. I believe that the true way of a
warrior is fighting your fight and letting. The warrior’s final battle is one
with one’s self, one in which the warrior has to find a way of sharing their
happiness however small it might be with others, and expanding those particular
feelings is what will lead us to true freedom and justice.
As a true person desiring peace you have to know
that you must think of the rest of the world. No one knows what is going to
happen to the world. Not the warrior, not the scholar, not the weak or
strong…no one, but each and every one in the world must be able to make their
own choices
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