A gifted nation’s melancholy

The statement is itself confusing right? You must be thinking how in heaven this nation is gifted. let me tell you my friends, since independence we have been gifted perpetually till now by one thing; ‘foreign aid’ and its wonders; let me call it our melancholy dose!

What seemingly reflected as our development injections became our vaccinations for aid-dependency.

Eventually, as our country’s body grew, from childhood to maturity, we developed this immunity within us to prevent economic development and always be in a need of this imported medicine. We started drowning in it to the point that now not every single kid of our gypsies’ lives with the hope of salvage but wait for this pernicious gift.

Looking at this child’s expression, I only find a fury, not hope but an anger of when someone would come and save her. To our utter shame, the one who will come to salvage her will come with the same gift and not with plans to take her out of this situation, not to revive her dignity that ridiculed as she begged.

To our satisfied ignorance, whenever hunger threatens a child of her class, another fear is carried along; ‘open demanding fist’, because that is what works every time. So here’s a point, supply shows itself wherever its partner demand is, when demand is a ‘piece of bread attached to string to run after’ and not the development than obviously supply will serve it accordingly.
How in this condition can gypsies of my country be transformed into communities?  
This to me is nothing more than heavy dose of ignorance that their bodies are fed onto.
This blind eye towards their pitiable condition is never caused by aid recipient or aid donor, but by aid regulators, ones who proclaim as their well-wishers, ones who show up their misery rather than an opportunity of development in them, those who aimed at developing policies for them.

All we need is to get sincere with our own nation if we want our dignity back. We need to educate them, let them know what condition they are in, and what they actually need to demand and receive.

“We turn a blind eye to illiteracy and poverty, we ignore individuals, and the rights of people and their dignity, and even life itself as a legal principal. Instead we agitate and call for resistance and sacrifice. Our fallen are ‘martyrs,’ just like in the religious code we’re trying to uproot or tear down."
Says Fadi Azzam, a Syrian writer and journalist