War and how I matter

It is very easy to put yourself in your comfortable bathroom slippers and tell yourself “I cannot make a difference” or “I do not matter”. I did think the same way until yesterday. I happened to land up in a Israel-Palestine conflict talk, about how the youth can actually make a difference in the world. Trust me, this wasn’t planned because I am the first person to back out of anything to do with protesting or taking a stand in a war, and also the fact that Arab political problems do not bother me. I actually went there for socializing!

It was going out to be a half an hour discussion. But eventually turned out to be a 2 hour hardtalk. All I can recall is the angry youngster, who I thought was insane, yelling at everybody and trying to make a point. (Turns out that he speaks on Al-Jazeera very often!). And also that I did not understand the half the conversation. But the one thing I learnt at the end of it was that if us, educated youth from different countries, do not stand up for human rights or try to protest or make a difference, no one will. At the end of the day, our voice will not be lost in the noise around us. It will be heard and will matter! But that’s if we go together. One person will fail drastically, if he doesn’t have hundred’s by him to support the cause. United we stand, divided we fall makes a lot of sense to me here.