By Sana Saleem
No matter how strongly one believes in something, it is not morally correct to impose it on someone . As we have moved along 60 years in history, we have attained and set milestones for each one of us. Time changes everything and it has changed a lot between us too. The weightage of materialistic things today is higher than morality and ethics .
I am sorry? Did you say I am boring you with these usual philosophical ramblings you have probably heard a million times? Well serves you right! Exactly my point! We don’t want the usual philosophical chit chats, we are tired of the moral and ethical standards that only look good in books. Unfortunately the truth remains that it is not always what we want to hear , neither is it always what we want it to be.
The only thing we can do and are doing is by constantly falling under illusions, we have stopped believing in revolutions and changes. In the course of time and set backs we have let time win the race while we sit back sip tea and criticize one another. We fall short every time waiting for a messiah to work things for us . We have people who feel pride in highlighting the failures of their country, forgetting in the meanwhile that this is their only true identity. We have been blamed for being too dreamy and too positive to be true, but I would rather suggest balanced optimism then in vain criticism. I am tired of hearing every time
ISS MULK KA TO SYSTEM HI KHARAB HAI, YAHAN KUCH NAI HOSAKTA!
(THIS COUNTRY HAS A FAULTY SYSTEM, NOTHING CAN BE DONE HERE!)
Well to these Mr/Ms Too-good-for-Pakistan, surely Quad-e-Azam will not be walking out of his grave to fix things for you? He did not ideally create this country to be a self functioning domain. This country, good or bad, is ours . Now coming back to the slogan and those who enchant it
Pakistan Zindabad Ya Pakistan say Zinda Bhag!
To those dearly beloveds I would suggest the latter than the former for you. To revive this country out of this mess we would require intellectuals grounded with reality and optimism, and not those whose spirits are enslaved by selfishness and who seek only benefits for themselves. These are our people and this is our country, only we are well-versed enough with its whereabouts to amend the flaws. There is no harm in having a sense of humor even in irony and no harm in acknowledging our flaws. Yet there is also no benefit attained from the stereotypical hopelessness we bind with our country and its people!
For me there shall be only one slogan till I live:
Pakistan Zindabad!
And we all shall bear witness!!!
Written by Sana Saleem, this post originally appeared at Pro Pakistan.
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