Sometimes a country is a calm sea. Sometimes it's choppy. Sometimes a tsunami comes unexpectedly and crashes ashore. And then what is left?
That is, unfortunately, the current situation in my country. Since the recent election, nothing has been the same, I trow. Luckily, I was away for most of the political power struggle. Why do people always, always chase after things that are bad for them?
On the one hand, it's always people who are so busy keeping their jobs that they forgot to do them. On the other, it's always people who are so busy making empty promises to get the jobs they want that they'd do anything to get it. I'd understand if it's a matter of life and death, but it's not. It's merely an insatiable appetite for more.
Perhaps one day they'll realise that they're chasing the right thing for the wrong reasons, and no matter what, the wrong reasons will sour the right thing until it becomes wrong. Utterly and totally.
"As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things which are worst for them."
- Albus Dumbledore in "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", written by J.K. Rowling -
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