Between victory and frustration: do we make history or do we repeat failure? – National Whisper – ✍️ Dr Tariq Ashary
When I speak to Sudanese abroad, I feel their tone of frustration about the state and the future
The feeling, in particular after the victories obtained by the army, are milestones of our history, because they mean that the will has triumphed over challenges, and that hope has exceeded the test of frustration. But the human experience, ancient and modern, confirms that the most difficult examination for peoples is not at the time of confrontation, but rather of the test: how to transform victory into a construction project, and how to preserve the burning of hope without being extinguished in the cycle of differences or the lack of vision?
In many experiences, we see that the time of victory quickly turns into disappointment if it is not managed wisely. Military or political victory is not for nothing if it is not translated by a tangible reality in people’s lives: stability, education, health and justice. And if the planning is absent, the victories have turned into slogans which are transmitted by generations with sorrow, not proudly.
The greatest danger lies in the small conflicts between the winners themselves, so the national compass is lost, and people return to the circle of frustration as if nothing happened. This makes the real victory not only to break the challenges, but in the ability to build a homeland that the citizen believes that it is a partner in success, not just a spectator.
Thus, the moment following victory is the moment of awareness and test. Either we go beyond the level of challenge and make the victory at the start of a complete national project, or we repeat history lessons where the victories were lost in the details of the differences. The choice is to make history or to repeat failure, always remains in the hands and leaders of peoples.
Sudan is today on the verge of historical examination; Either we invest the victories in a national project which promotes the country of the rubble of war, or allow conflicts and close interests to bring us back into the circle of frustration that we have suffered for decades. There is no sense in a victory that does not translate into unity, nor the value for slogans, if they do not support security, stability and development that the simple citizen is touching. Sudan, unwavering wounded, cannot tolerate a new series of disappointments; The real victory is to build a state capable of protecting its people and making their future, otherwise we have put the last opportunity.
The real victory is not only measured by the completion of battles or overcoming obstacles, but by our ability to protect the fruits from this victory of discoloration before the winds of frustration and despair. If we leave frustration, she infiltrates souls after each success, we will find ourselves in a vicious circle of progress and retirement. Therefore, we must plant confidence in the future and believe that each step forward, whatever its small size, is the basis of construction tomorrow. Victory is not a temporary station, but rather the beginning of a longer walk which needs consciousness and patience so that the realization does not turn into memory, but rather a permanent reality and a promising future. And Sudan after the war is stronger and the most beautiful
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