Who-sane's

I went to sleep last night with a big lump in my throat.

Wael Ghonim’s interview on Dream 2 TV was not what I expected it to be.

The part that paralyzed me the most, as I watched a very emotional Wael shedding tears and tears of what probably is mixed feelings of pain, frustration, disbelief, angst, joy, sadness and pride, was the fact that Wael was truly one of us!

What I thought would be a young man talking about revolutions, rebellious ideologies, principles, socialism, patriotism, fundamentalism, hatred for fascism, totalitarianism, radicalism, and a lot of other affixes ending with –ism, turned out to be a very, VERY, normal person who had a dream. Just another guy who believed in something pure, something better, a dream he and other “dreamers” realized.

Obviously, Wael is not an ordinary guy. He did spark the revolution after all. But what’s astonishingly cool about him is how ordinary he makes it all look. He kept repeating, after being arrested and blind-folded for 12 days, how he’s not a hero, how he’s not to be symbolized, how he didn’t do anything but type a few words on a few websites on the internet.

But Wael typed the right words at the right time on the right websites and managed to attract the right audiences for the right cause … and lo and behold, Jan 25 was born.

You can watch the interview with English subtitles here.

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