The Man Who Can't Be Moved

In The Name of Allah, The Most Gracious and The Most Merciful.

By reading the title for the first time, most of our mind will quickly start a mini-concert of a song which goes by the same name. ‘The Man Who Can’t Be Moved’ is actually a hit song from a band known as The Script which through this song, it depicts the idea of man who is just unable to stop himself from hoping and waiting for his dream girl.

Though this song is frequently heard when most of us is in the ‘lovey dovey’ mood or simply reminiscing the good old memories of our past failed relationship, I would like to think that somehow this song is more than that. I would not say that the lyrics may have implied another alternative meaning, because you know, people around the world is getting very paranoid about the idea of indoctrination through songs which are mostly related to Illuminati. The lyrics in this song in particular are very clear in delivering its messages.

However the title of the song which I have made into becoming the title of this article keeps me wondering till this day. The first wonder or question would be, is it possible for us to be ideally faithful to someone?

Let me start by sharing a true story that happen to me while I was studying in a boarding school. The environment is just different compared to normal daily school. Instead of discovering your new super duper mega best friend during your secondary school years, somehow in boarding school, you are granted with a newfound family. The bond between friends is so strong that it equates the bond between siblings. Without parents to look after you all around the clock, your friends are you only hope to look after each other. In short, I was very close to my batch mates. One day, our English teacher hand us all a piece of paper which contains the names of every member of the class with blank boxes beside each name. The instruction was simple. Write a word to describe your friend.

The result was quite surprising. Out of all the adjectives available, one of my friends, male or female, describe me as faithful. A word which at the time was so alien to me. If I am given the chance to describe myself via one word, the word faithful is never an option. However I am one of the people who strongly believe in the notion of ‘the people around you will decide who you are’. To an extent, it is true. The people around us are a reflection of ourselves. Thus, I have confidence in my friends’ description but at the same time I have no idea what being faithful is.

The struggling concept of the present is you need to adapt to survive. The ability to change is the number one quality in the modern era. The world is changing in a fast pace, the people is living in the fast lane. The urgency to change, adapt and survive is no doubt great qualities to begin with. Nevertheless, the modern society seems to be missing on something.

Something is just not meant to change. That something is your principle. If you don’t stand for anything, you will without a doubt fall for everything. The culture of ‘changing for a better future’ perhaps has a very great impact on our physical changes to cope with the current demand of modernity but at the same time it exerts more significant impact on us psychologically.

Researches by psychologists provide that the current generation is facing a problem of identifying themselves. People like to be different. Somehow for everyone, being different means you are special. It’s a human nature. The truth is, all of us are different and distinct to each other, initially. As I was stressing about the idea of we need to keep changing to keep up with the ever changing environment, actually we area changing with a magnitude. All of us is changing into something uniform. Something standardize, under the perception of this is what we need to survive.

Let us ponder for a moment, why is it that the previous generation has been able to come out with great discoveries for humanity and just by reading their history, we will realize that the society was also quite uniform at the same time. They believe that they can’t develop further. They believe that they have reached the pinnacle of modernity. While a few selected other refuse to have the same mindset. They on the other hand, believe that we are destined for something greater. And as history recorded, these people who were despised for being different, are now glorified by the current generation for leading humanity to discover many great things for the benefit for our own kind.

Again then, why is it, when we had actually endorsed the idea of changing, the current generation is lacking in significant discoveries? Are we satisfied with what we had or do we think that we had reached the pinnacle of everything just like the previous generation thought they have done so? Personally, as I mentioned before, we have a problem with our concept of changing. We are changing with a magnitude, we are moving towards a direction. The way of uniformity. Our education system does not cherish and celebrated the different. The system does not promote diversifying ideas and opinion. The sole aim of education is to create a same understanding for everyone. For me, that is not education, that is simply a quasi-indoctrination.

Back to our main discussion. What does faithful mean in the current world? I like to believe that you need to be faithful to yourself, be loyal to who you are. We were different into the world. All of us possessed great and creative ideas to help mankind to reach a greater height. But we are so busy changing, so busy adapting in order for us not to be treated differently from anyone else. We are so afraid of isolation or being secluded by the society. In fact, it is when we are alone that we can truly discover ourselves. People will judge us for being different, it’s human nature to be judgmental anyway. But they are only doing so because we don’t let them to discover the different side of us. Humanity is made to learn. Instead of changing and adapting, for the future of everyone, it is high time for humanity to learn to be accepting.

Remember, be faithful to yourself, even when the whole world is against you. In the immortal words of Ali bin Abu Talib, “It is only when the darkest night, that the stars shine the brightest” 

Wassalam.