An IceNews reader submitted the following uplifting and thought provoking 200-word short essay on the global economy.
Mango seeds don’t need soil to grow, only water. The soil is to hold it upright.
Water gives it internal oxygenation needed to grow or the mango tree will dry up.
But what does that mean, for students who graduated from high school or college?
Even with the news reporting the bad economies all over the world and with the biggest corporations in the world being bailed out by governments not just in America, don’t believe the fortune-tellers predicting you don’t have a future. You determine your future, not government and not corporations. Especially not the news.
My thought is: Why would I want big governments if big corporations can’t work?
Isn’t the president of a country an executive making executive decisions?
Small might be better.
Small businesses will grow like mango seeds without topsoil. As it gets bigger, it might need soil eventually or clamps that don’t hinder growth with the roots in a pool of water or ceramic pebbles to hold the plant in place.
Dream the possibilities. Don’t accept the failures of others.
Failure is additional knowledge for future success.
Congratulations 2009! Just keep watering the mango tree, study and learn to succeed. It’s a lifetime ambition.
By Daniel Escurel Occeño, a writer for children in the Philippines
I agree with you both.
Optimism and Pragmatism both are needed to achieve.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
– Goethe
Sure, uplifting analogies about tropical plants with romantic connotations are fine, but without accepting the realities and changing modes of thinking it just adds to the miasma of naivety about who we are and what has happened here. It is not true hope but rather analogous to the man who sings with his fingers in his ears when he receives bad news. It seems to me that despite changes in figure heads very little has changed in terms of political modus operandi and even less in terms of the Icelandic media taking responsibility for making this society more adept at honest and open critical evaluation of itself.
Please do not add to the weight of this problem by publishing drivel. I am sure there are many Icelandic writers and poets that could use this space to actually inspire the next generation to create a much needed new paradigm of thought in our society.