I am a 23-year-old student from Pakistan. I am amongst thousands of the youth who have a strong desire to be heard and seen. I remember my childhood with fewer problems than we face now. People were generally happy and I hardly came across worried people. Even I saw the wrinkled faces with smiles and sharing their laughter with everyone. As the time passed, I realised that people of my country had started to accept the failures as destiny and appeared to be in deep sleep. It is said that sleep is a blessing as it makes you to forget everything for the time being.
The governments have changed with time but a common greed, which relates to money and financial benefits, has been observed in all decision makers. Instead of helping people to come out of their problems and this deep sleep, how could the governments be so selfish and run the day to day affairs so ignorantly?
The youth is determined to make a difference through votes and by joining mainstream politics. But apparently the youth are not been taken seriously and are not trusted by people at the helms of affairs.
I request you all to use your power of vote and elect someone who can give us the meaning of our country. Do not believe in false promises by the leaders; rather make them answerable so that this election process becomes a platform for a change. The elected leader should be courageous enough to face the threats and should not sell our lives to save his life: a leader who gives a vision of unity and the one who thinks of the public before his own interest.
We need someone who will wake us up from the slumber to take one step ahead of what others think we cannot do.
