Love Quote by Kamisese Mara

The sentence lands with the blunt authority of a man used to making national problems sound manageable, then quietly admitting he wasn’t. Mara isn’t chasing poetry here; he’s building a chain of causality that turns “crisis” from an abstract political term into a physiological event. Psychological pressure becomes a blackout. A blackout becomes a pacemaker. The rhetoric is almost legalistic, as if he’s testifying against the mythology that leaders are built from sturdier material than everyone else.

The intent feels twofold: self-explanation and moral accounting. By naming “the first mental blackout I had ever suffered,” he frames the moment as a rupture in an otherwise controlled life. It’s not just illness; it’s the body refusing the performance of permanence. And by tying it to a later medical intervention, he widens the time horizon: crises don’t end when the headlines do. They lodge in the nervous system, accumulate interest, and eventually demand payment in metal and circuitry.

Subtextually, it’s also a defense of vulnerability without begging for sympathy. In many postcolonial political cultures, toughness is currency; admitting fragility risks being read as weakness or guilt. Mara’s phrasing dodges melodrama while still insisting on consequence. For a statesman often associated with stability and institution-building, the line hints at the private cost of public stewardship: governance as something you absorb, then carry, then implant. The pacemaker becomes an unromantic symbol of modern leadership - not heroic sacrifice, but chronic strain managed by technology.