How dead are we?
By Zain Rizwan
3 April 2016
KARACHI: The grand total percentage of Pakistan's literacy rate is not as much as some of us expect it to be, and neither are we shocked to see it; well some of us are not. And the ones who are literate, their world revolves around their surroundings. They don't know what the difficulties faced by a boy picking stones on the street are.Our society is rebellious. Not rebellious to the government or anything related to politics, but to self-improvement and combined cause. We are brought up with the belief of helping others, and maybe we do, but even when we are helping others we are doing it for our own benefit.
"My son was hardworking and intelligent. I could not believe it when the police said he was driving recklessly," said his mother.
Let's get to the other side. What if tomorrow someone leaks actual evidence of the plans of our political leaders? Will there be an uproar among the civilians? No. Not at all. All of us will say that the awam will now do something about it. But what we conveniently forget is that we are the awam.
When a dozen families are ruined with a single explosion of dynamite and news anchors eat on each other’s sleeves to report it, we are thinking not about what has happened, but what the purpose of it was and how it will affect the society.
We are dead. We might be breathing and eating and enjoying our little glass in our enclosed lives of limited pleasure of pop cultures that don't even belong to us, but we are dead. In our minds we have one spotlight and that is on each of us. There's barely a person out there who sees others in his spot light.
And the hilarious part is a ranting like this writing won't even nudge the voices inside you. You'll probably forget what you just read within 30 minutes and so would I. And we would continue living the lives we are living, being robbed of our rights and being okay about it. Not caring about the one in needs and not doing anything but criticizing the leaders.
The voices inside are sleeping. Let them sleep.
