Obstacles and debris are everywhere on the streets, roadblocks are literally at each block of the roads, yellow cordon tapes from one point to another flicker in light breezes.

People are on the streets, roadways, plaza, parks and overpasses. Parades of people holding banners, promoting solidarity and chanting for civil rights and liberties.

Garbage bins are burning, bricks once laid on sidewalks were thrown and landed sporadically everywhere, store windows are either heavily shattered or wood boarded.

Furious confrontations are at city landmarks, government buildings, schools and universities. Violent infuriating clashes between people and suppressive government authorities take place daily. Inconspicuously, peaceful protest possessions are being allowed lesser and lesser.

Strict National Security Law, stringent public policies, rigorous vengeance on dissidents, injustice court of laws.

Living in the era wouldn’t have a minute less of excitement!

At the calm and peace of cemetery, lived in the era would be timeless.

The most popular entertainment at home is the nightly soap opera on TV for the whole family to enjoy after dinner. Who would have ever thought that the soap opera are brainwashing us for the government.

It would be easily fooling the general public that TV Network Station is operating independently, but the TV station could actually be running puppet shows on the front while the government is actually one hundred percent in control of pulling all puppets in the shows behind all presentations.

Let me explain how a TV soap episode could brainwash its audience. A character is encouraging another to register as a candidate to campaign for a political position in the election by saying ‘just work hard to qualify being one of the candidates of the political election, I’m sure people will vote for you!’, as if the election were the truly democratic election in the democratic society.

The problem is in reality, the country or the society is not truly democratic, it has no democratic election because all candidates for any so called election are appointed from small groups of the government. While people have been watching TV soap opera every evening, people are easily forgetting in real life the electoral system is completely different from what’s depicting on TV.

The politician publicly denies his wrongdoing even though mountains of evidence have proven that he has in fact committed all the crimes that he’s accused of. No smile would be seen on his face.

The lady chief executive of the city has always been lying publicly to the people she governs even before she was appointed to take the governorship office. It is so aggravating to the people because she never stops lying but insists all her lies are the truth. No smile would be seen on her face.

A mother would pretend she is the best mother there’s for anyone. She would never tell what’s in her mind. She would never approve any good things you have done for her. She would never have a smile on her face.

A sister would say no other siblings have taken care of mother but she alone does all the caring for mother. She keeps scolding other siblings for not doing anything and not doing anything correctly but only she would do things right and only she would take care of mother. She would never have a smile on her face.

You could be an ass-kisser.

You could be a backstabber.

You are a ‘Yes’ idiot.

You see only money.

You are emotionless.

You don’t know right from wrong.

You can not tell black or white.

You lie.

You don’t believe in facts and truth.

You say only what you are told.

Your brains do not process, just listen.

You do not mind being a murderer.

Your justice is lopsided.

You can not sleep at night but just don’t admit it.

What would you do for money?

What would you do for love?

What would you do for family?

What would you do for others?

What would you do for earth?

What would you do for government?

What would you do for you?

The man keeps his articulation on freedom of expression of his mind. He strongly believes in the rights of freedom of speech so he constantly speaks of what’s in his mind openly. The man says, ” What I have in my mind is there’s hope, and I’m always hunting for hope. “

The woman keeps chanting ” We must respect human rights. So each person has basic human rights which must not be taken away by anyone else! ” She strongly believes that human rights is humanity which is inherent with human being. The woman says, ” I hope human rights is respected all over the world and I’m always hunting for this hope. “

The girl keeps singing ” I love you. You love me. We love each other. ” she says, ” I hope you love me always because I always love you. “

The boy keeps telling loudly ” I will protect you because I am strong. ” He says, ” I will protect you from those bad people who want to hurt you, I hope I can stay strong always. “

Grandfather keeps saying ” I want to be healthy, I want my whole family to be healthy so that nobody has to worry about anybody getting sick! ” He says, ” I hope to stay healthy because I can always travel to see everyone in my family. “

Grandmother keeps singing ” Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me. ” She says, ” I hope I am happy, I hope I am always happy. “

Humanity is witnessed the moment a person becomes conscious either awakening from sleep or other reasons.

Humanity is witnessed based on the person’s work, ideas, issues, problems, things-to-do, learning, beliefs, elements, abilities, skills, feelings, time, faith, effort, desires, preference.

What is humanity witnessed in daily living?

What is humanity witnessed living in a war?

What is humanity witnessed living through after calamitous disaster?

If I had told myself I would be a witness of humanity and a silent supporter, I shouldn’t have had minded being it.

I would shut up, cut out the superfluous humbleness, and cut out both of the needless benign or malign talks.

I would be goal oriented, focus, clear on objectives, thematic, result oriented, relax on judging knowledge standards, calm, and cool but firm.

I would wisely and humanely act upon what I have witnessed in humanity.

The man looks in his 70’s sat down across me at the table where I was sitting while munching on my seafood thick noodle at lunch.

In his clear, crisp loud voice, the man firmly and determinedly ordered his lunch for a set meal consisted of minced fish & pork balls porridge and pan fried radish cake, he also ordered a lemon tea drink on the side. It’s not the order taker who repeated the ordered menu to this man, it’s this man himself who repeated his ordered menu to the order taker.

The order was transmitted both to the kitchen and the cash register via wireless but before long, the cashier brought in the ordered menu list together with total food & drink payment on a single bill to the man. Wanting to make sure that the ordered menu and item bill would be delivered to the right person who had exactly ordered the food and drink items on the bill, the cashier repeated out loud that the man had ordered the minced fish porridge as she was handing the bill to the man. The man reacted quickly and firmly, ‘NO’, and had no intention of taking the bill from the cashier.

The cashier instead handed the bill to the order taker who then put the bill in front of the man and said he told me the exact order from his own mouth. The man responded out loud to the air that ‘of course I say no because she said I’ve ordered the minced fish porridge, which is not the set meal I’ve ordered that has minced fish and pork ball porridge with pan fried radish cake’; if I said yes, I would be sold short, which I didn’t want.

No matter how much I have been reminding myself to keep asking myself how to live on either knowingly or subconsciously, I have always fallen in the trap of routines.

I am living in routines and I want to change.

Living in routines may not be bad or it’s actually a way of living for many; but to me, I feel helpless.

I feel helpless isn’t because no one helps me, it’s because I can NOT help the unjust, unfair, unreasonable, and inhumane to turn to just, fair, reasonable, and humane that I witness in my living.

It is a terrible feeling that I cannot do any thing to help.

I ask myself how to live on. How to live on with the things that I witness daily?

I would write!

Writing can break the shell of routines for me!

When I can’t help the unjust turn to just, I can witness.

When I can’t help the unfair to be fair, I can witness.

When I can’t help the unreasonable to be reasonable, I can witness.

When I can’t help the denied to be accepted, I can witness.

When I can’t help the deprived to become entitled, I can witness.

When I can’t help the non-rightful to be rightful, I can witness.

When I can’t help the indigent to gain dignity, I can witness.

When I can’t help the not respected to earn respect, I can witness.

When I can’t help the wrongful stigma accusation to be rid of by the truth, I can witness.

When I can’t help an enigma to be cleared off its perplexity, I can witness.

When I can’t help the truth to reveal its truthfulness suppressed intentionally by liars, I can witness.

When I witness, I gain experience, I enrich myself; may be then I can help after all.