revisiting june the fourth

We talk about self-governance and sovereignty and how we ought to fight for these things and stand up for a free election, universal suffrage, so that we can decide. I was moved by their energy and efforts as I enjoyed my moment of being here, in Victoria Park, on June the fourth, thinking that perhaps I really hadn't been here in Hong Kong on a June the fourth since 1989, the year I moved away from this place and made home in another country. But I'm here now, taking in all their energetic talk about rallying for new ideas on how to ignite the spirit of democracy and how we ought to keep fighting for a right to decide. I stand on the ledge of the fountain, late night, here in the brisk air of almost midnight, and I thought (and had decided quite some time ago) that the right to decide is found within ourselves, that rather than fighting for a right to choose a leader to lead us it may be more worthwhile to attain an ability to lead ourselves to an understanding that there are no rights for which to be fought, for we are so much more sovereign than we ever seem to realize. Too often, in the past 20 years, have I had moments of realization that tell me a turn of the mind is a new territory and a planet full of fresh air.