Nelson Mandela "Happy Birthday"

Happy Birthday! to you Man-de-la.
One senior African intellectual, compared a senior person to a priceless library. Ninety years of a life experience for good or bad is an accumulation of some priceless information to serve a whole generation as a guidance into a world of wisdom and understanding.
Today in our educational institutions, with an abundant and easy sources of knowledge; there is a feeling that future generation of young men and women are being processed, like in a manufacturing company, in order to satisfy a market demand. Little interest is given to key ingredients of human fulfillment into adulthood as wisdom and understanding. Certificates and diplomats are as abundant as the countless different types of faculties and disciplines, all aiming to bring mankind a better understanding of ourselves and our environment. In reality, all seem like a world of fantasy and dreams never to be fulfilled, as we tend to become more focused on selfishness with an arrogant pursue of material gain, sanctioned by depression and the creation of a society in decay. The competition of material gain, becomes so consuming and intense, so much so, that the moral and ethical values that are linked to wisdom and understanding, just disappear within the layers of daily annals.
Wisdom and understanding that are gained through a life time experience, have no more values; therefore those who are in possession, are seen as a waste and threat to a new life style based on materialistic view the world. This indeed is a sad turning point in human history, it has been brewing for quite sometime and we are just entering the premature stages of its evolutionary path, with some devastating consequences to ourselves and to future generations.

"Sir" Nelson Mandela, is today an icon of irony to two very different cultures which share some sad and disturbing history. He is an icon of victory, for all those who have suffered prosecution and lived to tell the stories but also of failure for those who lost a battle to subdue certain individuals or a society. He is an icon of justice, for those who have suffered injustice and an icon of fairness for those who can accept right out of wrongdoing and reward the victims. He was an icon of hate to those who have seen him as a threat to their livelihood an icon of love to those whom he was representing in their fight against injustice.
In him, we have to acknowledge, the true endurance of human spirit to survive against the odds and the choice of destiny to spare certain individual, where countless number of people have failed, in the struggle to implement social justice. In him, we have to acknowledge the complexities of Western Culture, its ambiguities and ironies. A society that has brought, countless paint and suffering, to numerous people around the globe but also a society that has changed for the best ever, human living conditions on this planet earth.
It was a joy to see, he has been celebrated by all races and greeds, I wish him a happy birthday and many more returns, but only this time let it be at his homeland.
A land that has witnessed, the flows of blood from his long gone comrades.
A land that drunk from the tears and sweats of his fellow fighters for today's celebration.
A land that heard the cries of children and women and old and young, under the duress of prosecution.
A land that was their and never ceased to be.
A land that loved them and in return was so loved.
A land at the sharp end of the mother land.
A land of light and darkness, of rain and drought
A land of laughters and tears.
This is Africa, and the South end of our mother land.

Happy Birthday to you "Sir" Mandela
Wassalam
Peace and love to all.