Was it all A dream?

Opposition retain Kelantan.

And Nab Penang.

And Kedah.

And Perak.

AND SELANGOR.

Yes, SELANGOR.

What on earth happened last night? Where did all these extra ballot boxes come from? Where did we hid the BN votes? Or did we actually vote in the opposition?

Did yesterday really happen?

For the first time in our nation's history, Malaysians came out to vote for a better Malaysia. After 50 years, this country has gotten the change it needed. Its not the winds of change anymore, its a friggin' tsunami.

The scores and tallies are available elsewhere. The analysis is within the recesses of our brains. What I want to vent is that while some of us celebrate the change that is to come, others rue the loss of the ruling party. While some of us readily assume that all have awaited opposition power, there are those who vehemently oppose anything pembangkang.

Government machinery has been hard at work, using the media to spread its lies and misrepresent other political parties. While some don't fall for the facade unfortunately others do, even those amongst one's tightest circle thus creating a dichotomy among peers, friends you have known since before we could even spell "politics".

Ignorance is the enemy of friends. Here we stand side by side, with one dreaming of the future of ahead and the other saddened by the future lost. Why?

Because we're guilty. Guilty in all our campaigning. For all the strangers I approached, for all the people I personally called, for all the ceramahs I attended, I failed as my duty as a friend to inform my own peers about the state of affairs in this country. While we celebrate the victory of a win, I can only smack myself in the head for all those I missed. With all the euphoria that pervades the atmosphere, I can only think of those unaccounted in the celebrations. Some of them my own friends.
All because I never reached out to those closest, because of ignorance, theirs and mine.

Life is like politics when you try to please everyone. Politicians, like us, are not chameleons, changing to suit the context, we're merely accommodating more friends. What people don't understand is that like life, in pleasing everyone you are not changing your stance. Your finding new ways to stand.