they say that many people have sacrificed their lives just so my generation and the generations after enjoy the democratic right to vote.
i disagree.
whilst i am eternally grateful to them who have sacrificed their lives for me to enjoy such rights, i sincerely do not believe that the objective was to literally vote. i believe, the objective was to simply to be free to make our own choices, no matter what they are. and those choices, have to be properly informed choices.
i love this country. i will always be a malaysian with its beauty and its flaws.
but today, the age that i live in. the so-called information age, i am truly biasedly informed.
yet, i know why, if the situation calls it; in a blink of an eye, i would pick up arms and die for this country. i would die for the opportunity given to me, to be born free. i would protect to the death that right, that luxury. free to make your own choices. free from the subjugation of any other entity.
we should be patriotic not because of obligations placed on us but because of the intrinsic belief that living a life with the luxury of being able to choose; is a value that above all is the most fundamental to life. even before breathing.
"with great freedom, comes great responsibilities" - anonymous
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