October victory and spirit

In every year i used to acknowledge my age by 6th October Victory , same year of birth but different month . It always have special meaning to me.

Recently i began to wonder why we are different than before , why there can not be October spirit among all of us, something we used to have inside each one of us have been stolen from us. Something made us so special , so persistent , so self confident and self believers. The whole world stated clearly in the 1970 that we can not, But in 1973 we proved that we can , we proved that nothing will stop us. Bar Lev Line didn't stop us , our limited resources didn't stop us , the spirit of defeat didn't stop us.

Every time this event recalled it makes me feel sad for our time today. Now we have the resources , we have the peace and we have the power but we have no spirit to achieve. We stop believing in ourselves , we stop believing that we can , we stop to act as one, we are now many , in fact we are now millions , we are millions of ones , not millions of many , not even one of millions. My words might be confusing , but i am referring for the "all for one" and " one for all". there is no goal that unites us. We are missing that so much. We are now individuals with different agendas ,with conflicting targets.

The best thing in military or army is that they unify the targets , they merge the goals to be one goal. And during 1970's the non-military people "civilians " all have unified their goals. all became one hand. No hidden agendas , all clear. This is what we need.

There is a habit i try to keep every year , it is so simple. In every October i pick a book about October War , and read it. This year I choose "Albahth an Elzat "البحث عن الذات By Anwar ElSadat السادات . Lets say it is a way to keep this spirit alive in me ,to keep believing in our potential , in simple metaphor keep believing in "Yes , We CAN".

Many stories , many Issues in that book, Regardless of How former president Mr.Elsadat wrote it in his personal style it is considered a true reference for many issues that was hidden to the public. I believe that the book is a reflection for his true story. I am in no position to judge on that great leader or what he wrote , i am simply stating what i personally felt through the pages of this book. So I think it is interesting to refresh our memories of how great we were and how great we can be again.

If i can recall some Of AlSadat -المغفور له - words, then i will choose the words he said in 16th October 1973 speech , in the 1st section:war , " The Day will come not to only be proud of what we did , but also to learn and teach our sons ,our grand children ..... The time will come for this ". Yes , The Time has come , and the time is now.

If i have the spirit , i will have the well , and then i can act accordingly. So i think living the past event by reading about it is a good start. Is it possible to spread the Idea ? , i think it is possible , specially that every year the news papers recalls these days. So regardless of repeating same words in the news papers every year lets look to it from different prospective it is repeating " Yes we did it before, and Yes we Can Now". Let those words be in your mind when you start saying to yourself " same words , old stories, nothing new" NO , instead say to yourself" Yes we are still here and Yes we Can" .

"Yes we Can" in any field of life , in work to achieve quality , in Home to have better quality of living , in dealing with each other to have better caring and respect for each other.

In the past we managed to be united and to prove that we can, and as a start now we can as individuals to prove that we still can.