Strength vs. Weakness

By Shantanu -
Nobody likes weaklings even if they are good at heart, everybody likes strong, determined approach. Nobody likes to be led by a weak and incompetent leadership even if it is good at heart, everybody likes to be led by a strong and confident leadership. In a end, a weak and vacillating leadership brings more evil than a strong and resolute leadership which may do some wrong. There is no respect for the weak and coward. Therefore if a nation is led by a bunch of cowards, that nation as a whole loses respect, its moral character changes and evil thrives. When a country finds itself in stupor it is detested even for the reasons for which it is not in fault. Its enemies can cry shriller to draw attention to perceived misgivings and wrong doings and the world at large listens to them, even if they know that it is hogwash. This is because, the world fears strength, courage and confidence. This is the reason why Hitler went unchallenged for full four years even while attacking one country after another. Strength is dynamism, weakness is stagnancy. No more evil can befall a country which is cursed with a weak leadership. There can be no more ills than cowardice and inaction in the face of adversity. This is the lesson of history. Countries which find itself in such stupor often pay a heavy price, by losing independence, by getting disintegrated or by fading into oblivion. World does not care.

A weak leadership does not care for the citizens, it does not care about the country, it only cares about staying in power long enough to justify its own existence, which in the end it cannot.

Unless a leadership cares for the country and the sufferings of its citizens, of those who are deprived of basic rights or those whose rights are trampled, it cannot draw strength. Strength is not merely the strength of sword which does not last for long, it is the inner strength, which is drawn from self, drawn through prayers and yearnings, strength which enlarges the heart and drives one crazy till he or she acts decisively for the benefit of the nation, for the welfare of the nation, against all vested interest, and against, if need be, the everlasting desire to be in power. Power corrupts, strength does not. Power is weakness, strength is not. Power is attachment, strength is absolute and resolute detachment. Power leads to temptation, strength leads to renunciation.

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