Individuals constitute societies. Behaviours engrained in individuals reflect in social spectrum in patterns. The unintentional conduct of the masses, if read with a stable breath, can reveal millions of impressions. These diverse and closely knitted, shaped over a period of time – may even be touching centuries, are too integral to unlearn in a shorter perceived time. We, the people of Karachi, have lost our faith in anything good.
In our jokes, in our elegies, in our news, in the contemporary writings, in the very nuance of our sarcasm, floating amidst our inattentive inferences and by the shores of our prejudices. We are locked internally and cannot afford any difference of opinion. We are not just apprehensive or skeptic, but we are sick with suspicion.
Whenever the truth was slaughtered, the liars clapped and the others were in awe. Nothing was done to stop the execution. Time has brought us all down to this point where we are all captives in our own maize of truth and lies with a remote hope of touching our long lost treasure – the faith in good.
MUHAMMAD FAIZAN
Karachi