Last one month had been quite thrilling. A lot happened that narrates the same old story where the common man is clueless, ruling elite careless and society fearless. The excessive use of this suffix ‘less’ has actually made us less in every aspect be it socioeconomic, moral or political. The present day Pakistan brings up images of fuss and haphazardness. Increased disappointment, lesser faith and sense of insecurity have made people end up their own lives, cutting and throwing their children away, showing the inhumanity by kidnapping and raping children, recording their anger by climbing electricity polls or by putting themselves on fire and so on. While the authorities are enjoying the slumber, the party and its advisors are asked to put a condemning statement, and that’s all. This description explains the bigger part of lesser us. Now we are unable to come up with an effective idea of resolution, thus creating bigger miseries and making lives less comfortable. People call our less living a result of what happened in back 1980s, but I call it our failure of mishandling the daily situations we faced. We’ve told our demons they have the right to ride us fearlessly.
“The closer you look, the lesser you see” is the approach to our problems. The leadership too tries to look closer but never gets the sense of what it created in last 67 years. Our leadership looks up at the death of hundreds of people a week but doesn’t see the killer because it’s bigger and our vision is less. We like lessening ourselves by shutting down our whole system just for some pipe-pipers to dump us deep down making us feel more-lesser. It’s our lesser self that make them feel superior, they rule us, exploit us and add up more to our misery. Their successful political careers are based upon the choices we make. They are careless about our less self and enjoy the show-time on our expense for every term. It’s our lesser self that fight with the whole world daily telling them we are not the terrorists or bad guys. Its lesser self who enjoys every moment of joy be it a cricket match or a rain in hot weather. Our lesser self has made us learn to live with little but still we need to make people know the value of our lesser self. Our lesser self knows the political gimmicks they play on us; in short our lesser self enjoys the blame game.
I guess it is still not late that we must understand our lesser self as right and move on. It’s time to tell them our lesser life is only left with a piece of land which we are needed to protect before we become Pakistan-less.
MARYAM NAZIR
Rawalpindi
