Global Changemakers

go up there, turn your fury into passion, and turn your passion into words that will stick into everybody’s minds and make a difference inside
go up there and do you thing, the same way you sing under the shower
always do what you want to do
what you like to do
and what you were born to do

and i believe that we were born to make a difference, and i know that we are all crazy people with dreams to reach the sky,

and those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are those ones who do "

THE CEDAR AND THE GUERILLA….

Well, nothing much to say,

Here the story goes

A story about a feud between two nations, which lost its real cause and became a continuous war in the holy name of vengeance,

Ever since I was born I was taught that there was a cause , a sacred cause, and I was taught that there was only one enemy, whom I never should stand beside, always stand against, an enemy that I realized as I grew up, and I noted as probably the most fierce and the hardest.

As I grew up I swore the sacred oath, never to look at the enemy in a different light,

I have seen things that a normal kid should not see

I have done things that a normal kid should not do

And by the time I became 17,

I had already been driven away from my hometown

I had already witnessed two of the most violent wars

I had already held arms,

I had already rushed in an ambulance into cities under fire saving people

And I had already walked unarmed under fire, with huge boxes of medicine in my hand,

And I had already broken doors of schools to give shelter to a million refugees driven away from their homes

But back there, in London,

I shook hands with the enemy,

And I realized the misconception of the word "enemy"

The enemy is not the human being

Not the one who used to wake me up for breakfast everyday,

and be the last one out of my room every night after the enormous gatherings

I realized that the enemies are those who want to draw the curves of our lives, and consider them straight lines we should walk on

The enemy is not he who refuses to go to war, or to the military in the first place,

Not the simple victim of a war, our fathers had started, and layed its burden on our shoulders

I found out that the enemy, just like me, is fed up of war and bloodshed

And refuses to be a victim of narrow minded provincialism

But what can we do?

We are in war,

No matter how far we go on with our struggle for peace

We never can kneel in front of those who oppress us

And as they say: "If someone slaps me, I have to strike back."

Such a baffling issue…

Such a weird coincidence,

And such a long, hard road to travel to reach a new world order

An order in which no more discrimination is observed

A new world order where peace reigns above all…