Undergraduate / That was the day of the grand Egyptian revolution / Common App: National Concern [9]

Option #2: Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you.

The Essay:
It was the day Egypt exploded, not with missiles, but with anger, resentment and the demand for liberation against the dictators of our country. That was the day of the grand Egyptian revolution that was going to set Egypt on the right track towards a brighter and more sophisticated future, or so we thought.

Throughout the next two years chaos has emerged in our land and there were more than a thousand martyrs. We all said that was a price we had to pay for a better Egypt, but we suddenly found ourselves back from scratch; we have been ruled by yet another dictator with a different face who would do anything to have Egypt in the palm of his hand. Revolutionists got out into the streets and shouted against the repression of the new dictatorship, but more blood was shed, by the authority's allies, blood of citizens my age- it was like a dĂŠjĂ vu. When I saw pictures of the casualties I actually wept, however my tears will not rescue my country or resurrect all those heroes who died.

This national issue that we are facing is of colossal importance to me because this is my homeland that is getting torn apart by internal feuds between its own people and witnessing these events broadened my vision of the future; it got me thinking about the next generations and the type of environment that they will be living in, so I have decided to take a stand against all that is destroying my home. I rearranged my priorities and set all fun aside and started taking actions; I gathered all my concerned friends, broke their barriers of fear, went into the streets to fill the voids left by the murdered Egyptians and yelled with our loudest voice against the unjust authority.

In a nut shell, right now nothing concerns me more than the well being of Egypt and as a citizen in this country I will not stop fighting for it until we reach stability and this whole issue is over; and it will never end until we learn to live together as equals, and as Martin Luther King Jr. said "We must live together as brothers, or perish together as fools".