Sunday, June 22, 2008

Spartacus

He started from slavery and ended at defeat. He couldn’t achieve anything for himself or even for his followers. After his defeat and death, his own body was not even found and most of his men were crucified along the “Via Appia”, and that was a very clear warning to any slave who may follow his ideas. Although, at first, he had won two battles, the failure was the final result. By any measure, he had failed and lost everything.
Most probably, Spartacus had lived a very hard life; He entered this life and left it without changing anything, His life was harder than even the slaves he was fighting to make them free. At some time he thought, at least while thinking alone, it would have been better if he had accepted his life as it had been, and that would have been safer for him and for his men. At the end of his life while he was defending himself and surrounded by foes, he might have regretted all his actions but he had no choice rather than continuing what he had started to and go to the miserable failure.
There is only one remaining thing in his story, although he had been defeated, his name is more famous than “Crassus”, the winner of the battle. His idea was strong enough to defeat time and to gain respect after centuries. His failure is respected more than the success of his foes. Success is not what we gain now, but our trials of doing what we believe in. If your trials ended with failure, smile, at least you had tried just like the famous hero Spartacus.



Mohamed Al-Khazendar

3 comments:

Mena M. Eissa said...

Great lessons are hard to forget. They are also very expensive to learn.

hOSAM said...

Sometimes I don't see any particular achivement for this man. But he's not alone; Hannibal fought very well but he lost in the end; Romel fought well in WWII and bitterly lost; Spartacola fought well and he lost. Like the real heroes of WWII are hiro and naga civilians who you will never know their names, real heroes are the ones who fought and died for these leaders with retarded management skills

Unknown said...

"if you can't reach your goal that doesn't mean you shouldn't die trying"
as you said he is famous cause he enhanced people to not accept the reality and fight for what they believe
-nice topic