Major decisions and emerging maturity, choices and risks

1. Political choices: The need to express and articulate the third way, the less paranoid and the rational, non-xenophobic way of expressing the vision for this country.At the end of the day, the largest leveraged outcome of the simplest decision is to sway the fence-sitters away from the corrupted, lousy, rotten status quo, no matter where the position of comfort the owner of the opinion is. In this case, I do need to participate, I do need to expres a position, I do need to ensure there is a sizable buy-in and engagement to the choices that I make and the convictions that I have. But the first step is to firstly have that list of convictions first. It's so much easier to be the cleaner that sweeps the mess of others, but it's more desirable to be the one that stands in front and expresses abhorrence of this practice and prevents it from happening.
2. And in that respect, how important can it be to have an opinion, arrived to thoughtfully, and expressed gently and articulately, that could sway the opinions of many. Less of the consultant-speak, more of arriving at a resolution that speaks volumes of the character and generosity of spirit.
3. And more importantly, is how could this be achieved without reflecting on the choices of asking for divine guidance and help? How would personal wisdom be enhanced that you could see past the iniquities of others, be informed of the personal agendas, and prepare and strategise accordingly such that the objectives of justice can be assured, and having the wisdom that the guidance that we seek are the right and divinely acquired despite the naysayers and grounded in the reality of the world that we live in.. ok ok.. I know this is dragging, but this is the difficult part of idealism meeting practicalities.
4. Offers and choices - and at the end of it all, we seek Allah's acceptance of our amal, niyyah and iman, and importance is not necessarily relfected in that order. Then the task of leading people, and the risks of leading them falsely can be mitigated somewhat as I have this innate fear of leading them wrongly. And in that respect, the Dark Knight Rises truly inspires the choices that we ought to make to realise the world we ought to live in, and guided by a divinely-inspired moral compass that helps our innermost innate judgment.