I can choose to write the word mengundi (voting/ poling) in English, but I cannot resist the word from the thoughts of our children or the education system in Malaysia. Although politics and education never make the best mixture, they are, however, inseparable from one another. Education certainly shapes the politics. Politics too, somehow affects education. Question is, on hari mengundi, why are they still a lot of the eligible youngsters at home? Why are they not doing their responsibility?

Firstly, we have to make the children understand how poling is their responsibility. This awareness is the core factor that will move them to go out to drop their poling paper into the poling box. Like everything that comes through poling, every single vote will make the count. Hence, it is their responsible to make themselves counted into the voting numbers.

Secondly, we have to look into our voting recording system. Is it as updated as the youngsters are expecting? In this quick and hi-tech lifestyle, our youngsters are easily loosing their passion and patience to play their roles, hence keeping them enticed may change this.

Thirdly, they should know that by staying at home but hoping for change will not make desired change to happen. The change that they want starts from them. They first have to change by taking part in the voting activity.

Last but not least, they have to understand that taking part to mengundi is not always political. It is about doing a duty every citizen is assigned with. Imagine what can a citizen be during emergency if he or she does not even bothered to go out to do their part? Will this lot be able to safe the country by just staying at home and ranting about the situation?