The vacuum cleaner

At first people are enthusiastic when they buy a new “toy”, such as a vacuum cleaner. They use it all the time, keep their homes clean and the vacuum full. What happens after a while, is that the novelty wears off, and the vacuum stays empty.

I believe it happens the same when a country goes through a popular revolution. People are enthusiastic at first about removing the regime, but then they realise there is a vacuum, which cannot be filled immediately. Problems amount and the house gets dirty.

In my view, the steps to be taken to fill the vacuum and keep the home clean are:

•    Focus on the huge gaps, not the ones between the furniture- the ones in civil society.
•    Look holistically at the needs of the country, without a personal political, religious, philosophical or economic agenda.
•    See us as a dot in the digital image of our nation, whether we are an individual or organisation.
•    Enable ourselves to think constructively and channel our creative energies into building a new nation, higher than a skyscraper

Let us keep the nation, our home, tidy and the vacuum full!