In this stagnant political field, many try to imagine themselves as  lions, but continue to live with cat`s psychology - ex-official 

ArmInfo. Today's reality in Armenia resembles a large sinking ship: everyone stands and  philosophizes about how the ship should have been steered to prevent  it from sinking, who should do what, who is weak, who is cowardly and  weak-willed. Former Chairman of the State Revenue Committee David  Ananyan writes about this on his Facebook page.

"But does true power come from those who remember only the truth  after a shipwreck? No, true power comes from those who, even when  they see a sinking ship still moving, are not afraid to raise their  sails, listen to the wind, see the only way forward in the storm, and  act now, not after the fact. In this stagnant political landscape,  many try to imagine themselves as lions, but they continue to live  with the psychology of cats: with petty fears, petty appetites, and  petty calculations. A lion is not born from petty interests and the  habit of living by catching mice. Lions are those who refuse to be  dependent on petty interests and rise to greater responsibility,  greater merit, and a broader horizon," says David Ananyan.

He noted that anyone who finds themselves in politics, whether they  want to or not, constantly looking back, making excuses, delving into  the past, or clinging to old stories, sooner or later stumbles, gets  lost, and disappears into the fog of history.

"Politics does not like retreats. The builder of the future looks  only forward and upward, where growth begins with a step, and not  with justification. However, the greatest obstacle to moving forward  are those people who think with the logic of the swamp. Their world  is cramped, limited, murky, and closed. It is impossible to tell a  swamp person about distances, about the size of the ocean, that is,  about grand plans.  The geography of his imagination is limited by  this. By the same logic, freedom frightens those who have lived long  in a cage. A cage teaches submission, and flight itself teaches one  to doubt one's own strength.  But he who flies knows that flight is  not an illness. The illness is the cage itself. And when an entire  nation begins to fear the limits of freedom, the task of political  leaders is to remind them that flight is our natural state, and not a  cage. The most important moment in this whole picture is choosing the  first step of the ladder leading upward. Not every first step leads  upward. Very often, they only lead to new dead ends or to new  mistakes. "And the first step of true ascent is always recognized by  the same characteristic: it requires courage, purity, sacrifice, and  a sincere faith in the future. And it is from this first step that  the ladder leading to a new Armenia begins," the former Chairman of  the State Revenue Committee emphasized.