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The Price of Greatness is Responsibility

2 Pages 473 Words July 2015

We tend to believe that public figures are people who have a big responsibility for our life, which in my opinion is not a misconception. They do have a big responsibility and that is the price of their position. But by expecting from them a lot of things we often forget that they are just human beings and just like any person they make mistakes too. When Turkmenistan was being led by its first president Niyazov, Turkmen people used to complain about him all the time even though they weren’t able to take any actions. During my whole childhood, I had to believe that our president is really evil person who does not have any responsibility for the country. I used to think that he is not even concerned about the difficulties that we had and any problems that we tackled with. But those thoughts weren’t really mine; they were thoughts of many other people who surrounded me. And as a child I was tend to believe in what others say or show. So my opinion about our first president did not change until his death, after which we had to select another leader for our country. The new president started his actions just like he promised; he increased the school years from 9 to 10, he provided telephone lines in all over the country especially concerning rural areas, he allowed students to get education in border and opened the ways to other countries by making the process of emigration easier, supported many sport activities providing good equipments and building huge sport centers and did a lot of thing during a short time, but still, people complained. They were unhappy about even insignificant things. They kept believing in that he is not a good president to lead our country and they kept expecting form him miraculous things like he is a magician.
When I came to Bulgaria to study, I was interested in other students who are from different countries, and so far I haven’t found any student who said “our president is good”. That was the rea...

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