The Rising of the Moon

There has been only a couple songs in my life with whom I can say there was a "love at first hearing" sort of relationship. One of them is the Indian marching tune "Kadam kadam badhaye ja" and the next was Enya's "Only time". Yesterday another one was added to the list. That is the Irish song - "The Rising of the Moon". I had read the play by the same name when I was in eleventh grade as it was part of our English text book and even at that time I realized the similarity between the Irish nationalists and our own Indian Freedom Fighters. That is why as Indians we always sympathize with the Irish, as we were oppressed by the same country.

This is a song of rebellion where the rebels get crushed. I see the same thing as what happened to our Indian National Army. They put up a fight against a massively strong unmatched enemy and they lost. But that didn't stop the future generation follow in their footsteps. These are actual battles, but in our society now we are fighting battles against unmatched adversaries. There are so many things that we need to fight against and there are a handful people who have gathered so far "with the pikes upon their shoulders at the rising of the moon". Oppression is everywhere, in every society. With all the blabber about Marxism and socialism there are still millions and millions of people having a horrible quality of life. Not just poverty, but facing all sorts of crimes that we can't even think of. I should include animals too. There are tons of animals being abused too, which is one thing I fight against.

Fighting is difficult, going against the tide is difficult. I do just a couple things and even in that I always see apathy, selfishness, a callous couldn't-care-less attitude. A fear to come out of the comfort zone. A general idea of "why bother when it's not affecting me"...

I am trying to change that in all fields that I can. Go for the better alternative. Choose the better solution. I said it is tough but who said being a rebel is easy?

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