Mubarak Resigns

I just heard Egypt's president Mubarak resigned.  It's amazing to think about the effects this could have on the world.  When the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the fear of change, you'll change.  Especially when you are being oppressed by the government.  It's in every mans personality to have a want to be free.  But there are also several men out there who seem to have a never ending desire for power.  If you look throughout history, you'll see how when there is a dictator or government that is trying to take away the freedom of the people, the people will eventually revolt against the oppressor and regain their freedom.  For instance in the movie Braveheart.  Braveheart is about the Scottish revolution against England.  William Wallace (Braveheart) is a commoner in Scotland who's wife is brutally murdered by the English army.  This pushes him to get together a Scottish army made up of inexperienced commoners and farmers in a revolt against England.  Eventually Scotland wins their freedom but the most interesting thing is the men who died in the war.  They died free men.  It is better to fight or protest as free men then just sit back and let your freedom slowly die away.  The minute you start to fight for your freedom, you become free.  The biggest advantage the people fighting for their freedom have, is the fact that they are fighting for something.  Their heart is involved along with their whole life.  Which is why the inexperienced Scotts and the inexperienced Americans, both in different wars, could both win their freedom.  Unlike the English army, which was just made up of paid soldiers who were there just for the pay check, the outnumbered Americans and Scotts won because they were fighting for a deep belief and a chance for freedom.  Basically they were fighting to live.  When it comes to Mubarak's resignation, thousands of people fought for their freedom and won.  If you don't have something to believe in or fight for, and you just let life happen to you, you might as well be dead.  You don't really start to live until get out in the world and accomplish or change something for the better.  It doesn't have to be big, it might just be making someone smile.  But something as small as this can cause a ripple effect that can change the world.  The only thing that you need for evil to win, is to have good people do nothing.