20 years ago I had a conversation with one of the intellectual activists about the possibility of the change in Egypt. I was in the high school at that time and he was belonging to the Muslim brotherhood. He told me that the Egyptian people are not revolutionary by their nature and for hundreds or even thousands of years they never protested to the level of revolution magnitude on the ruler. so how we will change the community? He said gradually and smoothly from the bottom to top.
Look what happened? full scale uprise and thousands marched the streets and demanded the ousting of Mubarak.
Yes it was totally unpredictable and unplanned.
Each time I see those clips on Youtube showing the demonstrations of January 25 revolution in Egypt and see those thousands in the different cities and the millions gathering in the Tahrir square I receive the same astonishment and amazement.
It is as the ground was cracked and new bread of millions of Egyptians emerged out of it to achieve the change and to defend of the other living Egyptians who couldn't do it for decades and decades.
In my perspective Jan 25 was the most important key milestone date exposing the drastic change happened in the Egyptian attitude and the Egyptian personality.
Don't ever underestimate the power of the people to do the change.
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