𝑾𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒂𝒊𝒍 ( දුක් ගන්නා රාළ )

Remember when elections come nearer; "Air is full of promises and promises are full of Air" only. The past behaviour of someone is a good yardstick to measure the likely future performance of the same person. Remember as to why we all had to leave the country to earn a decent living and the future of your young kids too. If you think that your action today will ensure a good future for your kids and family tomorrow, then you are free to do whatever you choose to do. But do not forget that you will be held accountable for your kids someday of your action today. Take the right decision, not for your own future because we are almost at the end of the wick now. But kids today do / should not have to endure and experience the same that we all have gone in some form or the other. Let them go out and see/conquer the World in their terms and not on anyone else's terms. It is time to change the " Pecking order " of society today. Will they stay a " Bonded Slave ...

I was trying to analysis as to why many of us (Sri Lankans) are not willing to embrace changes or look positively for completely overhauling of the present system of governance. On every occasion when the issue of changes was brought up in open forums and in Media as well as in friendly discussions, instead of having a dialogue of substances, many started hurling insults and misquoting many religious texts that neither they properly fathom nor practice or cultural baloney to scuttle the process. Those who behave in such a fashion can be categorized into four main groups, namely, 1. Frogs in the well. 2. Inadequacios’. 3. Feudalists. 4. Fast Track Dreamers. Frogs in the Well. My sympathies are with them because they are unaware that there is a different world exists beyond their hamlets. They are not necessarily peasants. Some of them are neither poor nor illiterate. Someone I know who is dirty rich but has never gone beyond the shores of Sri Lanka was confused and...