what is a change?

It have been a while since I write anything on blogging. It was a tough few months, and do not get me wrong it still tough.

It is tough on school level, on making the living level, and on the Middle East level. I tried not to watch news or get involve in any political discussions, and I tried to kill any political ideas that came to my mind in the last few months. On the last few days, I tried to open up a bit, by watching the news, getting updates and analysis, and tracking some of old friends status. The irony is nothing change since my hibernation. Nothing change at all. I am not kidding.
In Syria, Kilo and Dalila and all the others prisoners are still in jail, most internet web sites are sill under censorship, so I feel that I am writing to people who already have the privileges of freedom. The main target-Syrian people inside Syria- are still under tremendous censorship.

In Lebanon, they are still fighting for the wrong reasons, they cannot agree on any issue, they are still waiting for the orders from either Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, America, and France. They cannot make a true Lebanese decisions.
In Iraq, it still under occupation, no change, more divisions than ever, and more chaos than anyone have expected.

After all this, I asked myself. what is a change? where to start a change?

I believe now that change is a self-consistent process, it starts from taking responsibilities for each one of us-with no exception-it starts with radical change in our mind and thoughts process. Change starts by us concentrating on the real issue. The issue in Syria for example is not overthrowing the government, but rather how to make the system better, but unfortunately, all of us always asking people to oppose, without giving a specific solution, exactly like this post that you are reading now. I am not giving any solution, I am just writing clichés, I am not at the origin of the problem yet. Before we start changing the government, we should start changing the system. For example, most Syrian students are not motivated toward education and science, we are still consumers for civilization, we are not even close to contribute to civilization. We cannot compete-if this word is allowed in here- with the West, we need to advance our thinking process. Universities in the Middle East are still teaching the very classical material that have not been updated for almost 100 years.
How do we expect from any Syrian to respect the laws, if one does not understand the origin of laws, does not understand the purpose of laws. As citizens we really do not understand the origin and the properties of the laws. We always associate laws with governments and regimes, without thinking about the consequences of laws.
As Syrian, we always think about studying and researching as a Compulsory task, but not as a self-development act. These kind of thinking will not take us anywhere, if we need the change, we need to change ourselves for better. we should believe in hardworking not short-cuts.

how to change? I do not know, it is a personal questions.

during my break I missed many events, many social events, and not "political", I did not contact some of my friends ( andre, Iyad, Ahmad, Razan Layal Wassim and many more for long time, I apologize.
I also apologize to Yazan and please accept my sympathy, even if it is late. the lose of your parents is very sad events. I know your are strong enough to deal with the new situation.

Again, what is a change?