Chengxi's "Spring"...

After reading the article "Mexico's revolution will not be televised", I became an admirer of the levelheaded and blood boiling Mexican youth who spontaneously rallied up to take measures to ensure the objective coverage of presidential election from Mexican TV network Televisa. This is what some will call "the Mexican Spring".

Social media does more than entertain, I mean, look at what we are doing with social media, I feel bad. Social media could be an extremely impacting mechanism that deter the authority from any attempt to hide the impropriety of their actions, it could also be a ruthless machine that's eroding away our ambition and valuable times. The latter one seems to apply to the American society. Days after days on Facebook I see example of two girls posting catchy phrases exchange like "awwww, love you <3<3<3"on each other's wall when they are in the same room sitting on the same table. Not that there's anything wrong with that, how is that constructive to our society?

Whereas the youth in Mexico, in Egypt and even in China are using social media to further the cause of social justice. They are using social media to tell the authority: we no longer need your permission to rally up and protest your wrongdoings, we can communicate through our own channel. And if you have something to cover up, fine, we will expose you with our own ways.

I am very glad to see these changes happening everywhere, people can actually get hold of their own fates and spread their own voices. Even though they carry great risks by doing so, they are able to combine their courage and ingenuity. It reminds me of a saying: "when there is a will, there is a way". We, as the hope of the future, we need to ask ourselves do we have a desire that is so strong that we are looking at every resource and channel that is available to us to be the medium to further the cause of what we are passionate about?

I was wrong, perhaps it is not the time to be pessimistic. This is a world full of opportunities for the brave, what we need to do is just to find out what we are passionate about and keep writing, keep telling the story, and our own "Spring" will come.