Abyss

What good are these amendments going to do? They pretend like they didn't amend the constitution more than 20 times before. What good did that bring and what good will it bring now?

Amend it again. And we'll be here to see how that improves the country in any manner whatsoever.

It is said that the constitution is a living and breathing document that dictates the running of the country and guarantees fundamental rights to the citizens. But, if any mortal was cut open more than 20 times, they wouldn't have the same guile and perseverance as they used to. Now make it worse, imagine the doctors opening him up aren't even real doctors.

We can try and bring all the amendments we want but things will not really fall into place until we amend that one important thing.

Our brains.

As long as we don't amend the way we think, the way we work and the way we function, no amendment in the world can fix our crashing economy and our country.

The amendment we require is not to be done to a piece of paper that was prepared years ago. It is to be done in our soul and in our intentions.

The day we take ownership of our land and vow to improve it, will be the day we'll see things improve.

Do we really think making constitutional courts is going to make anything better?

It seems as the ruling elite has forgotten its main objective. To work for the people and to improve their lifestyle. Not to play this game of revenge where they try to maintain their power by ousting others. They seem to have forgotten that they should be strengthening government institutions, fixing the local government system and addressing the widespread issue of corruption in departments.

Instead, the ruling elite is busy fulfilling its personal objectives and addressing its old vendettas by shuffling around how many and which judges they'd prefer on the bench.

Is this what governments do? Don't they legislate for the people because they've been brought to the assemble by the people or do they do all that is unwarranted and unneeded?

We, as a nation, were hungry, poor, frustrated and jobless prior to all the amendments. Post amendments, we're even worse. We're surviving on loans and aids while we import 138 expensive 4x4s for our bureaucrats. Our systems are failing, government institutions lack facilities, there are more kids outside schools than inside them and the rich keep getting richer.

How about we amend our ways instead? Get rid of the old lot that has steered us to the cliff we stand on today? How about we amend our entire parliament instead? How about that?

One big amendment and everything falls into place. I'd pay big bucks to see who votes in favour of the entire parliament to be amended and new legislators being brought in.

I think many would agree with me that at this point, we couldn't even care less of how many wrong decisions are being taken by the ones we elected (assumingly). It's like, every day, they do something worse than the day before. Like a gift that keeps on giving and we can only sit there and sigh and move on. There is no other way to look at it or go about it.

And I can't blame either of us. The system has been designed to keep us busy with getting our bread. We're so stuck up in petty issues that we don't have the time, money or the brains to really ignite a change.

Try stepping out and you'll realise you don't have enough money in the bank for tomorrow, so you need to go back to your job.

In essence, nothing will improve. It'll all continue to be the way it is. Either go live in the mountains or accept the grim reality.

Or stay and fight. When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose.