How beautiful it is for you to have a memorial picture with His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, the king of the country, may God protect and preserve him, and how beautiful it is that there is a memorial picture that brings together His Majesty the King and Youth to embody the dream of the homeland, because in this image it is far from a lens or deeper than a shot.
What does it mean for His Majesty to visit the great king with a beating artery bearing the name “Youth City 2030”, wandering between its centers, listening to its brevity, and shaking hands with fatal minds that draw the future?
In this majestic scene, His Majesty the great king was not visiting a training facility, but rather devoted an extended national vision, giving it from his prestige a strategic batch that proceeds in time and established a new mental structure based on believing in young people, not as an age segment, but as a precious national origin, and a civilized pillar in the Bahrain development equation.
His Majesty comes to “Youth City 2030”, and he will be received by the leaders of the youth and sports file, His Highness Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, His Highness Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa, and the concerned ministers, this in itself is a social political declaration par excellence, that the issue of young people is no longer an administrative file that addresses seasonal, but rather a strategic issue that intertwines with the identity and future of the state.
At the heart of this achievement, the slogan that the city carries is highlighted: “beyond the dream”, not just an expressive title, but an integrated national perspective, because the dream, no matter how widespread, remains limited if he does not find someone who embraces it, directs it, and gives it tools to become a reality, and this is what the city did, and this is what the royal visit confirmed, that the project is not a temporary ambition, but a strategic investment in the Bahraini person And a vision is built for a time and spatial dimension that goes beyond the present.
Bahraini youth who accept this city not only search for training programs or opportunities to develop skills, but rather to reserve a seat in the home vehicle, about 2030 and beyond, and therefore the words of His Majesty the great king came very clearly: “We are proud of you, and by giving you in our national career towards a more prosperous future”, not courtesy, but to announce a position and direct a compass.
Although His Majesty took a picture with the youth, the image here has a special symbol; It was not a memorial picture but rather a picture of an embrace, in a language that the words did not utter, but the scene said: We are with you .. We believe in you .. With you we take a picture, because you are the next face of Bahrain.
As we celebrate this typical city, the most urgent question knocks on the door of logic and society: What about the young people who have not yet reached the mission of the city of youth? What about those who are for geographical, social, or even psychological reasons, do not know that such spacious spaces are available to them? What about the young people who spend the summer between a lost time or a search for work that helps him to support his family?
Here lies the importance of the strategic link between the youth of 2030 and the youth centers spread throughout the Kingdom, the city should not be an independent island in the vicinity of national programs, but rather the axis must be the heart that pumps its programs, experiences and outputs to the outskirts of the Kingdom through these centers, so the experience turns from a pioneering model to a comprehensive national youth system.
We are facing a golden opportunity to redefine the role of youth centers as an executive arms of the concepts and contents of the youth city of 2030 through programming coordination, exchange of cadres, adopting training curricula, and involving young people in the governorates in the city’s activities through mobile initiatives or field partnerships. Thus, the slogan becomes “beyond the dream” a fact that is translated in villages, cities and hearts of young people who have not been set Their feet of this city, but they are now invited to be partners in its vision, because Bahrain does not build an elite, but rather builds a nation.
This is not only an invitation to work joint, but an invitation to national integration, at a time when the country needs all its energies, and depends on its youth as development fuel, and ambassadors for the civilizational image of Bahrain. The Kingdom led by His Majesty the Great King offers young people today an infrastructure that is not limited to buildings and equipment, but extends to faith, empowerment and embrace.
We, as individuals, institutions and society, must translate this faith into a living reality, providing the bridges between the city and the regions, between the concept and application, between young people and opportunities, to raise our voice: “With you we take a picture”, but we add: “And from you we take a pledge to be loyal children to this country, guards of his dreams, and engineers for his future.”
The image picked up by the youth with His Majesty the great king will not remain merely a memory, but may be a separate moment in the consciousness of a generation who decided to be in the heart of the scene, not on its margins, a generation that realized that the state that shakes it, opens its doors, and believes in it, deserves to make what is greater than the images: to make the future for it .. a future “beyond the dream.”
* Media and academic researcher
