Oh my God. My God, my God my God.
If there is anything like a God, which there is, then He will understand how painful and how exciting and how unfair and how tragic and how beautiful and how disgusting passion is.
Passion is filthy and it’s eating into people until when they look up they fall down because they have nothing to do but to seek refuge in the nastiness again.
I wish we could be passionate and everyone could disagree slightly such that no one would get hurt too badly. I wish passion could exist without immense suffering. I don’t know if it could.
The people hurt, they hurt and they hunger for what I their right. Their right to be respected is really there, they deserve it so much.
But they’re obsessed with it.
They’re obsessed with it and they’re willing to kill for it. Even if killing won’t actually help earn any respect, they’re willing to kill anyway. Because how dare anyone ruin their chance? Someone needs to be a target. Why not everyone? Why not claim that it’s a small group of people and ignore the fact that everyone is against you? Why not remain blissfully ignorant and continue to fight?
And why not continue to believe that if only, if only we could just convince a few more people – if only we put a little more pressure – that it’ll finally start to fall into place.
Why not? So what if it doesn’t work? It’s passionate, and it’s bold. And it’s showing everyone the truth of how you feel?
Leadership is about being cold and dispassionate. Or is it?
How can one lead if he doesn’t understand the multitude of passions he is expected to represent? How can he understand those passions without experiencing them a little himself?
Please, please, please, the people need leadership. They cannot go on like this, and they shouldn’t have to. It’s not their fault! We can blame CNN, and we can blame CCTV. We can blame Nancy Pelosi, and we can blame the Governor of Tibet. We can blame the Dalai Lama a little bit, and we can blame Hu Jintao a whole lot. We can even blame the Tibetan Youth League and those Chinese people that call for bloody revenge.
But what so many more people desperately want is for Tibet to be respected. And so many others just want China to be respected. For God’s sake, if they get really angry, who can blame them?
