The news papers are full of indications that there is no hope for common man, the electronic media Internet and Television Channels are screaming aloud that we are on the verge of a massive economic and ethnic disaster.
No hope is the signaled from any where. But I still see people going to mosques despite threats of terrorism and violence, I see kids going to school, I see people going to cinemas and enjoying with their families, I see a lot of kids in the parks on the week ends and on daily basis at evenings. I see people befriends with others regardless of their religion caste and where abouts, I see people still going out to courts to seek justice, I see people still willing to vote, I see people coming out to support their leaders on the political rallies. I see people making good money in business cause they are working extra hard to fight recession and poor economic conditions. I see more cars on the roads then ever before, imported cars business is still on boom, banks are not allowed to do car leasing but people have not stopped car buying on cash from 600 cc cars to 3000 cc luxury Sedans. Textiles in severe depression, I dont see any change in life style of the industry big shots, people are still working in the private and government organizations, all expensive schools are having regular new students registration for admissions, We see entertainment business doing well on the average, still records selling well even of the singers/artists who are not the most famous ones. I see farmers ploughing the fields, crop is not bad for cotton and wheat and sugar cane. People are making more than enough money to survive apart from the daily wages workers but even they have work in hand to survive.
What I do not see is a decrease in our spending on useless traditions on weddings, our buying exceeding our earnings by using credit cards cause we are brand conscious for clothing, watches, cars, shoes, audio and video systems and many more. Our spending is not planned according to our means and the whole benefit is going out to banks and the people who sell these branded stuff. We love to eat out at expensive of places but we are not willing to share our earnings to the people who do not even get a decent meal a day! We talk about Islam and we do not study it and find it more attractive to adopt the western norms which are rather taboos in our religion, we look for short cuts for every thing and then blame that there is a great deal of corruption in the society although we are encouraging it our selves, we blame our leaders and consider our selves relieved of the down fall of of the economy and degradation of living standards of a common man, we criticize our governments spending on education and health but are not willing to take the responsibility of giving decent education to one deserving child, we highlight poor conditions of hospitals but are not willing to pay taxes with an excuse that our tax money will be mis-used by the government. We scream aloud to have an up hold of Islamic Law in Pakistan, but we do not like the way our religion tells us to punish the culprits of thefts, murder, sexual crimes and frauds cause the laws are straight forward and severe.
We are an emotional Nation, we start spending a lot when there is an alarming need to help the people in suffering like the current situation in IDps and earth quakes few years back but we lack this spirit on regular basis. 50% of the people come to offices with an intention of not to do work and facilitate people, we do our job and rate it as a favor to people despite the fact we are paid for what we do at the job. We like to waste half day in discussions over politics, religious affairs, world scenario, movies, TV channels famous programs, top models and actresses, heroes n heroines etc and end our day by blaming government for load shedding and not taking care of the people, petrol price hikes, inflation etc but we completely ignore our role and share in making the things right, things can be improved if we only start doing our work on timely basis and with a willing spirit to help people around us and try to manage our expenses with in our limits so that we cant keep an eye on the income gathered from un-fair means.
Most of the revolutions were having a same origin or root cause: social in justice, deprivation, hunger and starvation. We are heading towards the same scenario but if we could put our act together rightly we can still reverse the the effects if we as individuals decide to contribute our share fairly. But government alone cant do it, if we rate government not competent enough, then we should vote for the competent people for the next elections (a lot ofeducateted people dont even cast the vote and blame the system and government all the time) Our approach to the religion, society and the law is self centred, as long as we are safe, we are not moved at all despite lawlessness and turmoil around us.
Blaming and criticizing is our national hobby and we do it for the sake of doing it as every body else is doing it. We rate our selves better than our leaders cause we never got the chance to lay our hands on the National resources so we are good citizens as long as we are not tested in this field. In Pakistan the person is called a Saint unless and until he or she gets caught or exposed. We are making hue n cry over an MNA being caught red handed to use stolen credit card, but the Evil dies itself, those of you amongst us who feel they are better than her can be caught some day on not paying taxes or paying not to the full, on making our houses boundary walls bigger than the actual land bought, mis-using government resources and company resources (private sector) etc and many more.
There is a law of the country but above it its Law of the Nature which is more Powerful, When Allah decides to answer the prayers of the crushed and depressed people, then a strange power of do or die comes to the people who were passing their lives in a dull and useless manner. When this happens we see dictators die on the streets, Kings hanged in Public, Presidents brought before firing squads, elites sent to prison and an ordinary man becomes the Savior of people and Humanity. Man can not rule by force, by love or by law for ever, there is an end to every story whether its sad, happy or horrifying and the end matters on what the main characters in the story of life had been doing? But before that we need to a psycho-analysis of our personality on the whole and believe me we dont need any body's help, we do know what's wrong in us all we need is a courage to admit it and then take the corrective actions and preventive measures to start contributing from our share in making the things right and then keep on moving in the right direction, if we achieve this then we would be able to choose better leaders (the lesser evils as they will not be Saints but they would know that people and the law is watching every move they make).
In the present circumstances, the fault lies with us as individuals and not only with our leaders and ruling class! Lets work together to improve things practically and stop the blame games, criticism is good when its been done with positive motives behind it, so lets correct our selves first and our leaders will be forced to correct their style of governance seeing this major change rather a chain reaction of correcting attitudes in us the people of Pakistan.
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