“I do not know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know is that it is in your hands. It is in your hands.”

As you said, it is in our hands. Including who we elect to leadership. No point in complaining. Raise the right people to adulthood and to the throne (whatever form that takes) or suffer the consequences. Because every leader with the bird of our lives in his hand was once a baby, a toddler, a teenager and so on. And what his parents, family and society – i.e., we – did or failed to do, shaped and moulded him/her. He/she is our creation and so it is only right that we pay the price.

Interesting story re told in a engaging and thoughtful manner …I wonder who should one focus on…the young testing the old or the old testing the young or the circumstances that are driving the young and the old ? Whose arrogance are we witnising? Power or age or of knowledge ? Where is wisdom and sense of humanity amongst the 3 ?? Lost perhaps !