It’s been a while...

If you don’t count the last article on this blog, I think it’s been around 6 months since I last wrote something. And the last one I wrote was because @lishu thought of me to be the moment bearer of the @steemtorch.

Why is that? you might think.

Politics

That’s all there is there and that’s the first and last good reason I decided to drop Steemit for a while and concentrate on something else... something I thought it was “real”. But it isn’t.

About a year ago I decided to get inside a new political party we have in Romania, one that was promissing new faces on the political scene in Romania and one that was promissing “change”. Aren’t they all promissing “change” and then “change” gets to be late to dinner? This one isn’t any different from that but I had to see it with my own eyes and feel it with my own guts.

So I dedicated my free time to work for the party, put all my efforts into it and think that I am doing it for a good cause. It took me nights of being awake and dedicating myself to it. It took me time from my own, that it should’ve been dedicated to my family. I sacrificed and thought “this must be it!”... “my country will change if they come to power!”.

And as time went by I discovered that politics in itself is the wrong way of governing a country. The intrigues and the way things just “are” make change impossible. You can’t change a bad way of governing over a country if you just use the same set of rules that brought us here. And if changing this set of rules is not done abruptly then the system will eat you alive, will make you forget the goals that brought you inside the game.

The game is rigged

In less than a year I found out that changing faces is not enough as long as those new faces have the same set of values and run for the same things like the ones before. It’s not the nose, or the eyes, or the hair that really makes us different from each other. The real differences come from inside us, from the values our parents put there while we were kids and from the good things we manage to pick up along the way, while managing to not get bitten by the ugly side of life. Not being involved in politics doesn’t necesarilly make you the right person for the job.

And then I realised: If they wanted people with moral compass then they would develop a “Morality test” which you have to pass, one way or another, before getting involved in politics. But nobody has that and if they do, there’s only the name, while morality will be byased and understood only in the sense that those who made the test see it. So the creators wouldn’t be political virgins, they would only be there first. And guess what: whoever is there first will never let go power unless they are forced to do it.

I think it’s in the human being these characteristcs that make us destroy each other for a financial gain, while posing as the heroes of the day. If you really dig deep down inside history you will discover that in the whole wide world there were only very few different people that got to power and really tried to impose their good set of values. Probably under 1%. The rest have, one way or the other, tried to balance the financial values towards themselves and the bunch of pricks that made up their team.

It’s sad but once you get Inside a political party you start understanding why this is happening. Hard to explain, a lot of details inside other details; it’s a spider’s web that’s made out of arguments and opinions that most of them are empty words, meaning nothing, being used only to justify this or that, reasons to avoid real morality from taking place.

For me it’s a great dissapointment but, as I like to say, “life goes forward as backwards it’s impossible to”.

I missed you Steemit

But in the same time I think it was a good time to drop a pause in my steemian life. I still observed everything happening here but I had to put a little distance between myself and something that was eating up alive my creativity. Sometimes you have to take a pause just in order to be able to continue. After all, steeming is a hobby and if you struggle to post daily then at some point you will be empty of interesting things to say. That’s totally counterproductive for both the content creator and the client.

So now I’m back fresh. With a lot of content in my bag and a lot of things to write about. A little bit older (unfortunatelly), a little bit wiser (I hope!) and a little bit more experienced (that’s for sure).

Stay tunned for more words and pictures coming out straight of my asshole mind :)

PS. The pictures I accompanied this article with have been taken on a moody evening while walking through my city to the party HQ. We are preparing for the mayor elections and I’m being integrated part of the campaign as the “content guy”: pictures, movies, graphics and copywriting.

That’s right: I’m not dropping politics and the only reason I’m doing it is because it’s much better to be inside and try to change even a fraction of the bad story developing, instead of being on the outside and dancing on the music that they are preparing for you.