Voice of Cambodian Children (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} khmerchildren) wrote,@ 2007-09-24 09:20:00 |
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ENOUGH
by Sidney Liang
www.cambodianvoices.org
The struggle to serve sometime comes to a haul. It is really hard to comprehend when a server become servant. I need to ask and beg our communities to please STOP fighting each other. It is mentally and physically painful to see decades after decades we keep looking for mistake of each other, talking bad about each other, and dominate each other. No one knows our weakness more than ourselves. Day by day, we expose our vulnerabilities to our friends, foes, neighbors, and the world. Let me take this small example: I have post the petition on this sites for days, I only have 4 KHMER people signed it. It is very sad. I am sad. Is there only 4 people surfing this site? We are not united. Why do we hate each other so much?
I am writing this because, this week I loss 22 of my staff and program is eliminated. On a national stage, two Khmer Communities competed. One Khmer community won, but KHMER loss. Honestly, I am very ashamed and heart broken by this. My friends, I am tired. For over fifteen years, I have tried to serve, build team network, and create a sense of community. Whether it rain, shine, snow, in sickness or in health, the Cambodian community always served by this small 4-5people VOCC group.
We are not a perfect nation, community, or people; so do other nations and people. There comes a time when we should let it go and improve ourselves. We must not live in miseries and stuck trying to hurt or do damage to ourselves. We must try to see the goodness in people, our own people. We must learn how to forgive so that we can grow further; and not stuck with sinful thought of harming each others. We must learn how to say good things and praise our parents, child, friends, and foes. If we don’t, our kids will take root from our sad hated heart. We were once a country and people of pride, values, religion, and caring. We were people with compassion and kind hearted.
We must realize that it was not Khmer who turned Khmer into a barbaric nation or heartless people. We have loss our ways for so long. As a result, the nation is in bad shape. Our communities are not united. Our people pinned against each other…our hearts are not sacred. Wherever you are, your actions contribute to the wellbeing of our nation and Cambodian people as a whole. Khmer always Khmer…we should be proud of that. I need to ask and beg our communities to please STOP fighting each other. Please STOP!
by Sidney Liang
www.cambodianvoices.org
The struggle to serve sometime comes to a haul. It is really hard to comprehend when a server become servant. I need to ask and beg our communities to please STOP fighting each other. It is mentally and physically painful to see decades after decades we keep looking for mistake of each other, talking bad about each other, and dominate each other. No one knows our weakness more than ourselves. Day by day, we expose our vulnerabilities to our friends, foes, neighbors, and the world. Let me take this small example: I have post the petition on this sites for days, I only have 4 KHMER people signed it. It is very sad. I am sad. Is there only 4 people surfing this site? We are not united. Why do we hate each other so much?
I am writing this because, this week I loss 22 of my staff and program is eliminated. On a national stage, two Khmer Communities competed. One Khmer community won, but KHMER loss. Honestly, I am very ashamed and heart broken by this. My friends, I am tired. For over fifteen years, I have tried to serve, build team network, and create a sense of community. Whether it rain, shine, snow, in sickness or in health, the Cambodian community always served by this small 4-5people VOCC group.
We are not a perfect nation, community, or people; so do other nations and people. There comes a time when we should let it go and improve ourselves. We must not live in miseries and stuck trying to hurt or do damage to ourselves. We must try to see the goodness in people, our own people. We must learn how to forgive so that we can grow further; and not stuck with sinful thought of harming each others. We must learn how to say good things and praise our parents, child, friends, and foes. If we don’t, our kids will take root from our sad hated heart. We were once a country and people of pride, values, religion, and caring. We were people with compassion and kind hearted.
We must realize that it was not Khmer who turned Khmer into a barbaric nation or heartless people. We have loss our ways for so long. As a result, the nation is in bad shape. Our communities are not united. Our people pinned against each other…our hearts are not sacred. Wherever you are, your actions contribute to the wellbeing of our nation and Cambodian people as a whole. Khmer always Khmer…we should be proud of that. I need to ask and beg our communities to please STOP fighting each other. Please STOP!
