Do Hazar Bara!

This post marks the beginning of 2012….

Our country  is still in a critical condition…. as if surviving on a ventilator….

Resources have been depleted to ashes…. Gas, Electricity and Water shortages still lurk in every corner of the state…..and the same floods destroy thousands of homes every year…

Political deception is ubiquitous….. and the nation is evidently divided into multicolored flags….

There exists no balance between supply and demand…. and lack of planning is pushing us back in time….

probably towards stone age….

Hope is being suppressed and opposed by those who have accepted the status quo….. just because their eyes are still wide shut…

The reign of chaos is continuing to strengthen democracy…. demonstrating the true power of people…. ultimately leading to their own destruction…

The last day marks 2 bomb blasts in the provincial capital… and a sectarian killing scene in the revenue engine of Pakistan…. and still people continue to celebrate…. as if nothing happened.

Yes we are living in the most difficult of times and…. so many of us have already lost the will to fight back… and have happily retreated to the trenches…. carrying a variety of visas on the green passport… waiting for things to change in the meanwhile…

All the above things said…. i salute the dwellers of my homeland for surviving the last year…. and still having the courage to move forward and serve the country….

2011 is over…. and whatever the prophecies and myths foretell… 2012 will mark a new beginning…and hopefully a better one… for everything that is!

Make the Leap!

In a giant leap of faith, a man standing at the edge of a canyon tries to cross it in a single bound… its only in mid-air when the jumper realizes that the leap wasn’t powerful enough… to carry him over to the other edge… but then it’s late… the airborne man thinks and re-thinks but the only thing that keeps popping up in his mind is to find a way to save himself…..

At this very moment something amazing happens….and  for a minute he suddenly feels that he has got all the time in the world….. Like time freezes for him….

He sits down quietly and starts to ponder….

What was he thinking when he made the jump?

How could he not understand the risk involved in this crazy act?

Wasn’t he stupid to make this wild estimate of crossing the abyss on his own?

Did he not know his own strength?

What was he trying to prove?

All these questions start flooding his brains and he gets up…. shakes his head… and continues with the leap….

Yes, Just like that.

A blind leap is what is desired of us sometimes…. sometimes we think… and think too much… and keep on thinking without doing anything. We talk and discuss and criticize but little do we realize that it is the Action that actually speaks. Without thinking about the consequences sometimes it is better to get off the couch and do something for whatever one feels is right.

The abyss might not be crossed but the joy of flight is a reward in itself!…….. and who knows…someone is already there with a rope to pull you up to the other side!