{"id":82879,"date":"2018-11-07T04:38:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T11:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=82879"},"modified":"2018-11-07T04:38:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T11:38:13","slug":"ranil-wickramasinghe-has-a-problem-growing-up-trying-to-remain-forever-in-the-safety-of-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/11\/07\/ranil-wickramasinghe-has-a-problem-growing-up-trying-to-remain-forever-in-the-safety-of-childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranil Wickramasinghe has a problem growing up, trying to remain forever in the safety of childhood\u00a0?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Charles S.Perera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Every day children are born most of them, unless they are born mentally handicapped, grow to be matured men or women experiencing the simple duality of life \u2013the good and the bad. When we are babies and children we think that all solutions can be solved by crying and yelling at parents and others that pass by making them understand\u00a0 by gesticulation or crying loud for what we want.<\/p>\n

But\u00a0 that way of satisfying our demands ends as we grow up learning from teachers , books, thinking and reflecting, \u00a0how to live , what we expect from life. Then we learn by experiencing through human relationships how to react to what we think is good or what we think is bad. It was easy with our parents we can be peaceful or aggressive with them and their reactions would be mild or manageably harsh .<\/p>\n

But later on \u00a0\u00a0our relations with those \u00a0outside our homes are unpredictable they may some times be enriching experiences, or dangerous\u00a0 experiences which \u00a0may even cost our lives. Life is a constant learning experience.\u00a0 It is that which\u00a0 makes us wise or foolish.<\/p>\n

In our selected professions too we have to learn to adopt ourselves\u00a0 to situations , be it may be as a teacher, as a doctor, as a lawyer, as a labourer or as a politician.\u00a0 If we do not\u00a0 adopt ourselves correctly then we may not be successful in our chosen profession.<\/p>\n

In Sri Lanka\u00a0 after 70 years of Independence we have our own politicians, parliamentarians. Have they adopted themselves \u00a0as good politicians or parliamentarians ? Most of\u00a0 the parliamentarians in Sri Lanka are lawyers, doctors, or simply men with experience in dealing with people\u00a0 to solve their social or economic problems.<\/p>\n

If some citizens not satisfied with what is taking place as they are not happening for their personal benefits\u00a0 take arms to fight against the antagonists and try to wrench from them what they need, they become terrorists and their \u00a0antagonists may then \u00a0take arms to stop them and eliminate them.<\/p>\n

If the politicians and parliamentarians act in like manner\u00a0 they will also be terrorists and the government may take appropriate action as those taken against the terrorist.<\/p>\n

But do we expect Parliamentarians act like terrorists ? No .<\/p>\n

Why ?<\/p>\n

Because we do not expect such behaviour from them as they are experienced men and know how to act wisely and patiently, with people of different ideas, beliefs and cultures. They are not children who cry and yell\u00a0 demanding what they want, but act peacefully using common sense and using their experience in their human relations as politicians who stand for the interest of the country and its people with different political views and expectations.<\/p>\n

As we grow up we should\u00a0 learn to see\u00a0 reality through maturity of\u00a0 thoughts interacting with men and matters\u00a0 and stand by those realities\u00a0 rather than vacillate unable like children to decide what to do or wher to go. See for instance an experienced politicians who was many times the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka\u00a0 and the leader of the UNP for over 20 years,\u00a0 a lawyer, who lost 30 elections still \u00a0unable to face defeat as a man, \u00a0and unable to take a decision on his own.\u00a0\u00a0 He cannot accept to be told that he is no more the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n

What then is such a \u00a0man \u00a0who cannot accept eight worldly conditions (asta loka damma) gain and loss (labo-alabo), grace\u00a0 and disgrace (ayaso-yasoca) insults and praise(ninda \u2013presansa),\u00a0 enjoyment and suffering (sapanci \u00a0\u2013 dukkham), if not he is not\u00a0 a wise man and has still learnt nothing of life.<\/p>\n

It is now evident that \u00a0Ranil Wickramsinghe has no existence of his own. He \u00a0depends on others. As the Prime Minister he depended on Paskaralingams and Charitha Ratwattes, foreign NGOs and lots of yes men who are after their own benefits.\u00a0 Now holed up in Temple Trees Ranil Wickramasinghe ex Prime Minister \u00a0depends\u00a0 on friend\u00a0 Karu Jayasuriya-an indecisive vacillator, foreign journalists, embassies, of USA,UK,Germany,France and European Union.\u00a0 These are his life support of existence as a rebel ex-Prime Minister.\u00a0 He tells them the possibilities of street fights, he has stressed that\u00a0 one does not know what arises in a situation like this . A few desperate people he tells them, can start off a blood bath.<\/p>\n

Ranil Wickramasinghe \u00a0is insinuating\u00a0 before \u00a0\u00a0the foreign embassadors \u00a0a calamitous situation and indirectly requests them to be on guard to defend Sri Lanka and perhaps be ready with \u00a0an army contingent. He had already written to these embassies \u00a0requesting them to demand\u00a0 the\u00a0 \u00a0UN to be in readiness to send\u00a0 a UN peace keeping force. (https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/10\/31\/call-for-ranil-to-be-indicted-for-high-treason\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Doesn\u2019t this show that Ranil Wickramasinghe has not reached mental maturity, but\u00a0 instead descending\u00a0 to the childhood level of\u00a0 having fear\u00a0 and yelling for security ?\u00a0 Unfortunately he seems to have suddenly found himself in a kindergarten class with all his political companions, Karu Jayasuriya, Harin Fernando, Ajith Perera, Ravi Karunanayake, Harsha de Silva, Rajitha Senarathana, Mangala Samaraweera, Majuba Rhaman\u00a0 and even Gomin Dayasiri in the same class.<\/p>\n

A lollipop for a crying and yelling child is what money does to young growing up politician\u00a0 give them a bundle of money they immediately\u00a0 become manageable by the one who provides him with the toy bundle. Manusha Nanayakkara found it was more democratic to join the Government of\u00a0 Prime Minister Rajapakse sworn in by the President and in the morning he took oath before the President to be a Minister in the Cabinet of the new Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse. And in the evening he comes back to Ranil Wickramasinghe \u00a0the ex Prime Minister and says he made a mistake\u00a0 about understanding democracy and says democracy is besides\u00a0 Ranil Wickramasinghe.<\/p>\n

Sampanthan and other TNA Parliamentarians refuse to grow up and remain eternal children.<\/p>\n

Strangely though even the foreign Ambassadors have a problem growing up. The new Ambassador of US Alaina Teplitz, true to their nature of destabilising the governments of developing countries , goes to the former Prime Minister crying over his lost jobn trying to sympathise with his plight and give some hope that he still has Ambassadors coming to tap on his back.<\/p>\n

But yet there are wise men even when they are old- Lord Michael Naseby at 82 years\u00a0 who had once been a Deputy Speaker of the House of Parliament, who \u00a0is wise and refuses to be a child. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Lord Michael Naseby\u00a0 has warned the UK Parliamentarians that it is not their role to interfere in to internal affairs of Sri Lanka and says that he is fully aware that all actions taken so far \u00a0by the President of Sri Lanka are Constitutional. He says that Sri Lankans\u00a0 should be allowed to settle their own problems without foreign intervention and that he has met the President of Sri Lanka several times and that he is a wise man.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Charles S.Perera Every day children are born most of them, unless they are born mentally handicapped, grow to be matured men or women experiencing the simple duality of life \u2013the good and the bad. When we are babies and children we think that all solutions can be solved by crying and yelling at parents […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}